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The US Embassy in Delhi, India, where visas are processed for Indian nationals to work and study in the United States.

Visa delays dash ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunities for students, workers in India

January 5, 2024The price of higher ed

Getting visas to travel to the US has never been easy for people of certain nationalities. But pandemic closures made visa processing delays extend to a year or more. Now consulates are staffed up again, but as Sushmita Pathak reports from New Delhi, substantial delays remain because of large numbers of visa applicants.

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Visa wait times for international students has many reconsidering US studies

September 7, 2023The World's Global Classroom

A waiter wearing a mask and an apron with her hair pulled back tends to a dining table.

England indoor dining resumes, but where are all the staff?

May 17, 2021Jobs

Health care workers gather for lunch purchased by members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD)

Pandemic raises fears for immigrant doctors whose status in the US is uncertain

September 18, 2020COVID-19

Nigerian couple ‘heartbroken’ as families face indefinite visa ban

February 13, 2020Community

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Veteran Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi is denied a visa to the US

May 14, 2019Global Politics

Hanan Ashrawi’s application for a US visa was denied this week. Ashrawi says she views the denial as retaliation for her criticism of Israel and the Trump administration’s policy toward Palestinians.

Mahmood Salem and four of his children on a visit to Djibouti in November 2017.

‘There is real suffering’: How the travel ban is tearing some families apart

August 6, 2018Immigration

Families in the Yemeni American community are in limbo as the travel ban limits who gets to enter the US.

The complicated reasons why some people overstay their US visas

October 25, 2017Conflict

For some people, overstaying their visa was never the plan. Rather, it is the result of one, or several, extenuating circumstances that convince immigrants they cannot or do not want to return to their countries.