US visa system won't be back online until at least next week

CIO: A computer problem that has brought down a key State Department system for issuing visas and passports at U.S. embassies worldwide won’t be fixed until at least next week.

The glitch that has hit the Consular Consolidated Database has affected applications filed since May 26, and while the government hasn’t provided an estimate of the number of people affected, a weeklong outage of the system last year affected 200,000 applications.

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