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Contending with visa delays reached nightmare proportions in the Fall of 2002, after the government implemented regulations aimed at tightening national security, said HIO Director Sharon Ladd, who keeps track of the number of delayed students every year. She said dealing with delays has become a more lucid process in the ensuing years...
...People in our office, even without the data, felt a difference,” Ladd said. “Last year at this time, we had a total of 31 people who were on my visa delay list.” Of these, 10 never arrived in time for add-drop period, the last-hope deadline for enrollment...
...Although Ladd is hesitant to draw conclusions until more definite numbers are in, she attributes this year’s sharp decline in part to pressure the University applied on Washington last year, when numbers of international applications dropped precipitously. University President Lawrence H. Summers, fearing that the delays would weaken Harvard’s international status, sent letters to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67 last April, urging them to seek an expedient solution to the problem...
According to Ladd, the government seems to have made an earnest effort to resolve visa delays as expediently as possible. While in the past stranded students have often spent an indefinite period of time waiting for their visas, processing problems have cleared up within a more predictable time frame this year, she said...
...government said that they were going to try to put these through in 30 days,” Ladd said. “And they did.” Two visa-delay cases have already been resolved since move-in week this year...