Comment by jezzamon
21 hours ago
Wow. As someone who just went through this process myself (leaving the US to get a green card via consular processing), I can only hope they hire more people to handle the increased case load. You need a medical exam and there were only 2 people available in my country to do that, which added 2 months to my application time (where I could not return to the US)
If anything they are reducing staffing for these posts. Last I heard foreign service staff morale was at an all time low