Increase Visa Processing Funding: Aging Services Providers Desperate for Staff

Congress Must Act to Speed Up Employment-Based Visa Approvals

Thousands of desperately needed foreign-born health care workers are poised to come to the U.S. but cannot due to the federal government’s backlogged and overburdened visa processing operations. 

Congress can do better, and must increase funding for the Department of State’s National Visa Center in the fiscal year 2024 budget to allow the National Visa Center to hire additional staff to accelerate the processing of new employment-based visas for foreign-born health care workers. 

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