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Consulars advised of delays in visa processing of up to three or four weeks. But as backlog dragged on for months, students like Pang faced the reality of not being allowed to enter the country in time for classes...
Pang says that during a decade of work and study in the United States, he never had to wait more than 10 days to update his visa...
When Pang’s first day of class passed months later, he was still in Malaysia, waiting for his visa stamp...
...There was no word back from the visa counselor for the longest time,” he says. Government officials eventually told him that a “visa-issuing freeze” prevented any student visas being issued to Malaysian scholars. “[The U.S.] just stopped issuing visas for a couple of months,” he says...
Pang contemplated trying to get re-accepted into one of the British programs he had turned down. Luckily for Pang—unlike about a dozen other students who experienced severe visa delays that year—the long-awaited document arrived in time...