Immigration lawyer Emily Newman said that companies should contact their congressmen, senators and inform them about the delay in H-1B visa stamping in India which is impacting their business.
Immigration attorney Emily Newman said there is no possible solution to the current visa stamping delay situation in India because no one is concerned that thousands of H-1B visa holders are stranded in India. Companies should reach out to their congressmen and urge them to find solutions to the situation because businesses in the US are being affected, Newman said.“I don’t see anybody urging the State Department to improve the situation. Typically, we hear from members of Congress who urge the State Department to say, ‘Hey we need to open up more visa appointments because it’s hurting business, it’s hurting people’s ability to travel’ and I’m not hearing anything about that right now. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of concern, which tells me they’re not planning to improve anything.” Because it seems like no one is overly concerned about it,” Newman said. Companies should reach out to their congressmen and senators, let them know about the situation that’s affecting their business, their employees, the lawyer said. “Unless someone complains about it, the department doesn’t have an incentive to do anything,” Newman said. He said only the State Department and Secretary Marco Rubio can do anything about it. Immigration lawyer Rahul Reddy said that the Donald Trump administration cannot impose legal restrictions on H-1B and this is Donald Trump’s way of hindering H-1B visa holders. He said that the Trump administration has learned from their past mistakes and now they know that they can do more when visa holders are outside the US and not inside the US and so they advise visa holders not to travel outside the US. Currently, there is no interview date available in the four Consulates inside India, and the starting date of appointment is around March 2027. The situation stems from the department’s massive rescheduling of interview dates in December 2025 due to social media scrutiny of H-1B and H-4 visa holders. Since hundreds of Indians traveled to India during November, December and also scheduled their appointments at the embassy for new visa stamping during that time, they got stuck in India as they could not re-enter the US. Some companies allowed them to work from India but overall the situation is in limbo.