The judge blamed the delays on 'the State Department's complete cessation of adjudicating diversity visa applications for five months.'
A U.S. judge blasted the State Department for its delays in processing visas for winners of the lottery, saying that the COVID-19 pandemic was only part of the problem.
"Some of that shortfall is no doubt due to the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic is not the primary culprit," Mehta wrote in a ruling late Thursday."That would be the State Department's complete cessation of adjudicating diversity visa applications for five months and its unlawful deprioritizing of those applications when adjudications resumed."A judge blasted the U.S. State Department for its failure to properly process visas for the U.S.
After the pandemic hit, the Trump administration put a freeze on many green cards issued outside of the United States, including the diversity visas. The Biden administration lifted the freeze on green cards, but the State Department still wasn't issuing most of the visas. Applicants sued both last year and this year to get some visas saved.
Now, she said their future is uncertain. With the pandemic walloping Peru's tourism industry, Rosales said her husband traveled to Canada on a work visa and took a job in a restaurant there. It could take until next year for the U.S. litigation to wrap up and the visas to be made available, and she doesn't know if they will win, she said.Dorisnelly Fuentes Matos called the decision"a total injustice.
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