Immigration News: New Bill to Address US Visa Backlog Issues | More Visas to be Issued, Updates
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The US embassy in India has a huge visa backlog. Since March 2020, reduced manpower and pandemic-related operations have caused significant visa demand across all categories. Although, most non-immigrant visa appointments at the New Delhi embassy and consulates in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai have been delayed. But we are getting great updates nows.
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The US has a plan to solve the visa backlog for Indians in the next few months, as per US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The comments were made during a meeting in Washington with S Jaishankar. India’s Minister of External Affairs raised issues with obtaining visas for Indians to live and work in the United States.
For Indians, the US has a non-immigrant visa waiting period for more than two years. The waiting period in Delhi is 444 calendar days for student/exchange visitor visas, 758 calendar days for visitor visas and 354 calendar days for all other non-immigrant visas.
Jaishankar said he was confident that Blinken and his team would look at some of these problems “seriously and positively”. Blinken attributed the backlog to the COVID-19 epidemic.
“We had constraints from COVID about the number of people we could have in our embassies at any one time etc. We are now building back very determined really from that surging resources. We have a plan when it comes to India to address the backlog of visas that have built up. I think you’ll see that play out in the coming months,” Blinken said in a press briefing.
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