Global Souls vs. the Visa Bulletin: How One Spreadsheet Runs the World’s Hopes
Every month, like a grim bingo caller in a fluorescent-lit purgatory, the U.S. Department of State releases the Visa Bulletin—an Excel sheet that quietly decides whether your cousin in Manila will see her fiancé this decade or whether that software engineer in Bengaluru can finally stop pretending he enjoys “team-building” Zoom calls. Across time zones,…