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The wait time for a US visitor's visa interview in India has been reduced by 60 per cent this year, a senior official has said, attributing it to the slew of measures taken by the Biden administration, including opening more diplomatic missions in India and abroad to process these applications.
But not included in the ban, the four countries where the 9/11 hijackers came from. saudi arabia, the uae, egypt, and lebanon. reaction now pouring in, including from iranian officials, saying they'll reciprocate by banning u.s. citizens from their country. let's go to rachel crane, joining from new york's jfk airport. that protest still going on. i know you spoke with the husband of a detained woman. what did he tell you? >> reporter: hi, poppy. politics aside, hearing the stories of the families that are being torn apart, it's difficult to hear. as you mentioned, i spoke to a husband of a wo...
Medication and he said he wasn't able to speak to her. now, she was granted a green card. but yet, was detained. we spoke to another gentleman who was here on a student visa. getting a p.h.d. in bio-chem industry. his wife detained. she was has been granted an f2 visa. he told us she was set to get back on the plane to go to iran. >> she called me through the phone that it was not hers and told me that she will be deported. and she was cry. i don't think that i will stay in the u.s. anymore. because of this kind of treatment. i don't have any clear vision about the future about the treatments ...
>> reporter: fred, we've seen several tearful reunions here this morning of detainees being reunited with their family. we've seen many tears, deep hugs. we had a chance to speak to some of the people that were detained. we talked to one iranian gentleman who was detained for about 24 hours. he lives in texas. he described how he felt humiliated as he exited the plane and he was pulled aside with four fellow passengers. he described the suspicious stares that he got from the other passengers that were exiting the plane. we also spoke to a gentleman named muhammad who is getting his ph.d. at oh...