Visa Bottlenecks Are Creating Headaches for Employers, Workers

As the US immigration system recovers from the pandemic, the return to normal has been particularly slow for companies with workers and executives on temporary visas, with no silver bullet solution in sight.

Extreme wait times at embassies and consular offices mean those workers face a tough choice if their visa has expired: put off returning home or potentially find themselves stuck in their home country for months before they can travel back to the US. That’s because workers with expired visas can only have them renewed at consular offices outside the US.

Those wait times have also created disruptions ...