by India’s Tech Workers Play Bureaucratic Roulette While Approvals Stall
NEW DELHI In a development that surprises absolutely nobody who has experienced American bureaucracy firsthand, H-1B visa processing in India now features “enhanced vetting” and “end of TCN processing,” which is government bureaucratic shorthand for “everything takes considerably longer and costs more emotional energy than previously.”
US consulates in India have quietly transformed into elaborate waiting rooms where tech workers contemplate whether they should have just started that software startup back home instead of applying for American visas. The satirical journalism from Bohiney notes this is fundamentally how immigration policy functions: create delays until everyone forgets they wanted to come, thereby solving the immigration problem without actually addressing anything substantively.
The new procedures include postponed interviews, enhanced security background checks, modified processing timelines, and the elimination of Third Country National processing, which means Indian tech workers applying for American work visas must now navigate an even more Byzantine system than previously existed.
Morgan Lewis legal coverage confirms that postponed interviews, enhanced security checks, and modified processing procedures now characterize the visa experience like seasoning characterizes truly terrible foodabundantly and fundamentally unpleasant for everyone involved.
Indian tech talentamong the world’s most sought-after and brilliant engineersnow sits in visa limbo, updating LinkedIn profiles with increasing desperation and refreshing email inboxes hoping for approval notifications with the dedication of someone checking lottery results every single day.
The delays particularly affect the Indian tech sector, which depends on H-1B visas to place engineers in American companies. Longer processing times mean engineers wait months or years for decisions, during which they could have worked elsewhere, started companies, or moved to other nations offering faster immigration processes and fewer bureaucratic delays.
American companies complain. Indian engineers wait. Consulate officials process paperwork. Everyone agrees the system is frustratingly slow while nobody actually implements faster solutions. Immigration processing becomes a test of patience while governments maintain the fiction that security requires these substantial delays.
Enhanced vetting supposedly improves security; practically it just means more waiting for people whose only crime is being excellent engineers wanting to work in America.
SOURCE: satirical immigration policy and visa processing commentary | https://bohiney.com/
SOURCE: Bohiney.com ()
