The U.S. embassy in Haiti is working as fast as it can to clear a 10-day backlog of visa applications by Haitians seeking to leave the Caribbean island nation after the Jan. 12 earthquake, Xinhua reported.
"Only a 10-day period immediately after the event was missed," Donald Moore, U.S. consul general in Haiti told a press conference at the embassy.
He said the embassy had failed to attend appointments from Jan. 13 to Feb. 3 in part because many staff, including himself, had lost homes and many were sleeping in their offices or on the embassy grounds.
The magnitude-7.3 temblor has killed more than 212,000 people and injured more than 200,000 others.
U.S. embassy in Haiti works against clock to clear visa backlog
