WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:
With college students heading back to campus in the coming weeks for the start of a new academic year, U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) are pressing the Trump Administration to process international student and scholar visas without unjust delay.
Whitehouse and Reed are teaming up with U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) and 27 colleagues in demanding answers from the U.S. State Department about why international student visa appointments have dried up at some embassies - a bottleneck that seems to mostly impact students from Latin American countries. The lawmakers want to know why there are delays in processing F, M and J visas for...