Americans stranded abroad as the coronavirus spread took a lifeline offered by the State Department: We'll fly you home, but you have to pay us back
“It’s a matter of statute. The Department of State does not have a choice in that matter. We are not in a position to forgive those loans given the statute,” said deputy assistant secretary for consular affairs Karin King, after being pressed at a recent congressional hearing.
And though they didn't get their passports invalidated, they're still waiting for bills, too — and dreading the unknown price tag, even as the country racks up record-high unemployment numbers.Daniel Musick and his wife and two children had lived in northern India for three years, but as the coronavirus situation got worse and the U.S. Embassy started issuing dire warnings, they decided they would be safest in the U.S.
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