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Achintya Sharma had left New York City to attend his father’s funeral in New Delhi, India, when President Joe Biden announced a ban on travel from India to reduce the spread of a COVID-19 variant. This left Sharma and hundreds of other Indian people working in the U.S. stranded in India after they traveled for pandemic-related family emergencies. Siva, from Princeton, New Jersey, hasn’t seen his wife since she visited India to take care of her mother in February. A change.org petition has over 8,700 signatures to ask the federal government to allow visa holders who returned to India throughout the pandemic to be able to return to their U.S. homes. Read more at Documented.
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