Visa policy of the United States

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.

Visa rules are restricting the future of international students in the US

June 20, 2019Global Nation Education

Two men shake hands and a woman smiles while holding their arms.

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

May 14, 2019Global Politics

A man holds his face in his hands as two young boys lay on a bed

US immigrant visa denials skyrocket under ‘back door’ public charge rule change

April 15, 2019Immigration

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

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.