The US Mission to India has opened an extra 2,50,000 visa appointments for Indian travellers, covering tourists, skilled workers, and students.
Jean-Pierre was responding to questions about the feeling among a section of Indian Americans that the president is not putting as much effort into addressing the woes of legal immigrants as he is doing for illegal immigrants.
The US State Department said the pilot programme will accept applications from January 29, 2024, through April 1, 2024, or when all application slots are filled, whichever comes first.
With the latest development, India represents over 10% of all visa applicants worldwide, including 20% of all student visa applicants and 65% of all H&L-category (employment) visa applicants.
The visa programme was kicked off in 2009 to help Afghans who helped the Americans and confronted the risks of doing so. There is a similar programme for the Iraqis. However, both programmes have been criticised for their slow progress, thus leaving the applicants in dangerous limbo.
The ambassador said that they will be making more visa appointments available for students this year than ever.
The US immigration law provides for approximately 140,000 employment-based green cards to be issued each year of which only seven per can go to individuals from a single country.
India was one of the very few countries where applications for US visas saw a major upswing after coronavirus-related travel restrictions were lifted.
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The US government revamps its immigration process as applicants will now have to share additional information like social media, email IDs and phone number from the past five years of the application date.
According to the USCIS, between 2007 and 2017, it received the maximum number of 2.2 million H-1B petitions from high-skilled Indians. India was followed by China with 301,000 H-1B petitions during the same period.
Washington,Oct 12: Without directly naming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a senior State Department official has said that US will evaluate any visa application based on merits and according to US laws. "As you probably
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