Ever since coronavirus has been declared pandemic, there has been quite a spread of fear regarding inter and intra country traveling. The public is panic-stricken because of travel bans and visa cancellations in many countries. Majority of them are students aspiring to go abroad for further studies, while others are tourists or businessmen. A representative of AECC Global, which is an international student placement education consultancy informed that there has not been much decline in the applications, but are facing a lot of delays in the approval process. Maximum students are applying for May or September intake and are hoping for the virus to be contained soon. However, the embassies have also put a halt to the issuing of visas, which has added to the panic of students regarding whether they will get a visa or not. "Even the medical examination for a visa which earlier took only one-two hours now takes more than four to five hours. This has happened for the purpose of taking the ut

Author-Shlok Talati