By Elizabeth Klarin (September 19, 2022, 2:18 PM EDT) -- As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. visa applicants are getting all the way to their interview for a visa, only to be tossed into “Administrative Processing” — a legal mechanism historically used infrequently by U.S. government agencies to buy them more time on decision making in order to do additional background or security checks on the visa applicant, or assess whether the individual is inadmissible for some reason. But in the wake of COVID-19 — which slowed or completely shut down services at most U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide for more than a year — there is certainly the appearance that the U.S. Department of State is using Administrative Processing to excessively delay the issuance of visas for no logical reason....