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~Immigration is a big thing affected by the shutdown. Visa processing delays is a big issue for many businesses and individuals relying on it. For example, ther
by kull 8y ago
~Immigration is a big thing affected by the shutdown. Visa processing delays is a big issue for many businesses and individuals relying on it. For example, there are OPT applications now sent by many. Such a mess.~
edit: incorrect info, see comments below
- ayberk 8y agoI don't think this is true. USCIS is mostly unaffected by this, because applications are fee-based: https://www.fragomen.com/insights/alerts/immigration-impact-potential-partial-government-shutdown https://www.fragomen.com/insights/alerts/immigration-impact-...
- kull 8y agoYou are correct. USCIS is not affected, E-verify is. That’s great news! Thank you for correcting me. Also this is pretty well summarizing what’s affected https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-what-closed-open-affected-explained-post-office-irs-national-parks-2019-01-05/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-what-closed...
- ktsmith 8y agoE-Verify is affected but you just run your E-Verify requests when it's back up. While this is a longer outage than normal E-Verify goes down for other reasons more often than it should and you deal with those in the same way.
- RileyJames 8y agoI had a US tourist visa processed on the 3rd of Jan. There were no delays, or mentions of potential delays, related to the government shutdown. (It was processed in Calgary)