Plan Early for International Holiday Travel

December is one of the busiest travel times of the year, and a time when many foreign nationals and their families take the opportunity to return home for the holidays. U.S. Consulates and Embassies around the world are particularly busy during this time of year with visa appointments. Indeed, this year, consulates and embassies around the world appear to be more short-staffed than usual and therefore, appointments are filling up very quickly. Foreign national employees in the United States who are planning to travel internationally in December should therefore plan now to ensure that they and their families have the proper documents in hand and that visa appointments are scheduled well in advance at U.S. Consulates abroad.