The coalition is made up of Airlines for America, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the U.S. Chamber Travel Coalition urged the Biden administration to ease domestic and international travel requirements and coordinate with other countries to ease travel between countries. In a February 2022 letter to the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, members of the U.S. "Those delays have a negative impact on the ability of businesses to grow, expand their operations, generate new economic activity and create jobs for Americans,” Baselice said. Embassy for their visa application interviews in Beijing, China. But the wait times apocalypse has come for tourists and business travelers: 247 days - up from just 17 before March 2020,” he wrote.įILE - In this May 2012 photo, Chinese students wait outside the U.S. Temporary work visas are backed up 75 days - up from 12. “In July 2022, student visa interviews are backlogged 49 days - five times the wait pre‐pandemic. Indeed, nearly two years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a State Department official told a House committee hearing on visa services that “the vast majority of our cases are completed within three weeks.”īut nearly 2½ years after the pandemic began, according to a July report by Bier, there is an “astounding eight‑month wait to visit the United States for a period of at most just 90 days.” Though wait times vary significantly from consulate to consulate, Bier said, “it is the worst it's ever been since 9/11.”
And that produced what we're seeing now, which is year-plus waits, massive backlogs and all the problems associated with that,” he told VOA. “They just stopped doing work during COVID. consulates around the world that halted visa services. The reason, said David Bier, associate director of immigration policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, is the two-year, pandemic-induced lockdown of U.S. Some international travelers are waiting six months to a year to schedule a visa interview, State Department data show. Visitors to the United States, whether for business, education or leisure travel, are facing significant wait times for visas.
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