I am a physician in training doing my fellowship. I have two kids born in the US, 2 and 4 years old. My husband is a physician but trained back home in Iran. My husband has to travel to Iran because of his parents. Every time he travels it takes up to 8 months for him to come back.

He has a visa in process now almost 8 months, they sent him an email 8 weeks ago that your visa is ready he sent his passport and 2 days later they said you need additional administrative processing. The same visa had an administrative processing which came back after 6 months. And they said it’s ready but when he sent his passport they said additional administrative is needed!

My husband has missed birthdays of my kids, their firsts in everything, it’s sad that we both are physicians and here only for work and studying. The last email he got from embassy has tons of questions, for example all trips in last 15 years and locations you visited with name and duration of stay. Your social media username. Your family member information, and so on. It is not fair to treat someone like this.