Homeland Security Faces Suit Over H1B Visa Delay

The Department of Homeland Security is unlawfully dragging its feet in approving an H1B visa, management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. alleges in a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The department’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied the visa petition of McKinsey’s employee Aashay Kirit Shah. That decision was reversed by USCIS’s internal appellate body, but nearly six months later USCIS has taken no further action and given no indication of whether or when it will grant Shah’s petition, McKinsey said.

“Time is now running out,” the company said. Under his current F1 ...