As thousands of H-1B visa holders are stuck in India with no appointment date available in 2026, immigration attorney Rosanna Berardi said they have no idea when these people will be finally able to come back to the US. “The government’s playing games with social media vetting. And we have no ETA on when [they] are coming back," Berardi told The San Francisco Standard. “These are individuals who were lawfully in the US."
The Standard narrated the story of a San Jose woman from Hyderabad who had to return to India in November for a family emergency. The woman, an electric vehicle engineer, has her husband and two children in the US, whom she last saw before she traveled to India in November. The woman, identified by her initials JK, got her visa stamped multiple times in India and so she didn't anticipate a problem even when the US State Department announced that all H-1B visa renewals would be subjected to a social media screening.
