Word: visas
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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...
Noor A. Al-Dabbagh ’06, a student from Saudi Arabia and president of Harvard’s Society of Arab Students, arrived in Cambridge three days ago after waiting three weeks for her visa. Prior to Sept. 11, she said, the visa usually only took about a week to be issued...
...delay seemed to rise from slow visa processing in Saudi Arabia, where only two venues are capable of processing piles of visa applications, Al-Dabbagh said...
...problem doesn’t have an easy fix—largely because visa delays do not have a single cause...