The US Embassy and its consulates in India have issued an all-time report of over 140,000 pupil visas between October 2022 and September 2023.
“Our embassy and consulates in India issued an all-time report of greater than 140,000 pupil visas,” the US State Division introduced on Tuesday.
The US State Division said, “From October 2022 by means of September 2023 (the 2023 federal fiscal yr), the Division of State issued a near-record degree of nonimmigrant visas of greater than 10 million globally.”
Half of the US embassies and consulates adjudicated extra nonimmigrant visas than ever earlier than.
Moreover, the US embassy issued practically eight million customer visas for enterprise and tourism, greater than in any fiscal yr since 2015, the assertion stated.
Furthermore, the US embassy and consulates issued greater than 600,000 pupil visas, the best in any yr since Fiscal 12 months 2017.
The assertion additional stated that these achievements had been potential due to modern options, comparable to increasing interview waiver authorities that enable frequent travellers who meet strict nationwide safety requirements to resume their visas with out having to go to an embassy or consulate.
“Trying to the longer term, we’re exploring new applied sciences to evaluate alternatives to streamline operations, comparable to the choice of home renewal in choose visa classes,” it added.
Final month, the US Mission to India reached and surpassed the objective to course of a million non-immigrant visa functions in 2023.
The US Embassy and Consulates in India stated in an announcement that final yr over 1.2 million Indians visited the US, making it one of the vital strong journey relationships on the planet.
“Indians now symbolize over 10 per cent of all visa candidates worldwide, together with 20 per cent of all pupil visa candidates and 65 per cent of all H&L-category (employment) visa candidates. America welcomes this progress,” the assertion stated.
In the meantime, earlier this month, US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti visited the US mission within the nationwide capital to supervise the “unprecedented demand” for US customer visas among the many Indians.
The US Embassy stated that Garcetti was the particular visitor serving to the additional visa candidates on ‘Tremendous Saturday’.
#Embassy #India #breaks #report #points #pupil #visas