US Mission to India Opens New Visa Appointments For Travellers, Tourists, Skilled Workers and Students

As per the recent press release issued, the US Mission to India has opened an additional 250,000 new visa appointments for Indian travellers, tourists, skilled workers and students. The new slots will help hundreds of Indian applicants take timely interviews, facilitating the travel which is the backbone of the people-to-people ties in the US-India relationship.

 The US Mission to India has surpassed one million nonimmigrant visa applications for the second consecutive year. During the student visa season this summer, the mission continued to process record numbers and all the first-time student applicants were able to obtain an appointment at one of the five consular sections across the country. 

More than 1.2 million Indians have travelled to the US to date in 2024 which is a 35% increase over the same period in 2023. Almost six million Indians already have a nonimmigrant visa to visit the US with the Mission issuing more each day.

U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti recently stated that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden have set an ambitious goal to improve and expedite the visa process which has been delivered as promised and the consular teams at the embassy and four consulates work tirelessly to ensure that the surging demands are met with, he further added.