Reality TV Vs. Consular Procedure

Every year, "ANTM" sends its final few contestants abroad somewhere. This year, though, one contestant's travel is a little more complicated: Fatima is a legal US resident but a Somalian citizen, and therefore needs a visa to travel to wherever it is they're going. Of course, the CW is honor-bound to use all bureaucratic hurdles as a chance to dangle a contestant over a precipice, so Fatima's consular appointment makes her miss a photoshoot.

Obviously the whole thing could have been arranged without the drama, but when the drama's the point, why not milk it?