State Department must report on visa delays and social media checks.
H.R. 10711 — Reducing Visa Delays Act · Filed by Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) · Introduced Oct 1, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the State Department to report to Congress within 90 days. The report must explain staffing and tools. It must cover a new social media check rule that started after January 20, 2025. The State Department must post visa wait times online each month by office and visa type. The Secretary of State must make a plan to hire staff and cut delays.
Who it affects
People who apply for visas gain access to wait time facts. The State Department must report online and create a staffing plan. People waiting for visas to travel, work, or see relatives may see shorter delays.
One thing to notice
The bill asks for a report on a social media check rule that started after January 20, 2025. The bill does not give money to hire more staff. The plan may show what is needed without the money to fix it.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Oct 1, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Oct 1, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs and House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period…”
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Words to know
- visa — official permission from a country to enter, stay, or work there.
- social media check — checking someone's posts and accounts to decide if they are safe.
- Secretary of State — the federal official who runs the State Department and handles foreign relations.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,683 characters) on Oct 16, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
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