Foreign students falling into 'black hole' of US visa delays; universities in Illinois seek Congress' help
by Hannah Leone, Chicago Tribune
Feb 18, 2020
3 minutes
A University of Illinois graduate student from China applied in May for a visa renewal, a process that typically concludes within weeks.
But the application went into "administrative processing," and was still in limbo when fall classes started, forcing the student to withdraw from the fall semester. By the spring semester, there was still no resolution, prompting the student to withdraw again.
Such delays by the U.S. State Department in processing visas for international students in American universities have been a growing
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