Visa software service provider for the US Embassy, VFS Global, has announced that it is shutting down its operations from 12-14 July in order to migrate to the new platform. The US Embassy stated that the software processes are halted for a brief period of time. And in the course of this temporary shutdown, a number of different providers will additionally be paused. Any course of relating to visa software to the US including appointment booking, telephone calls, queries and price payments will resume from July 15
Target. of 1 million visa issuances in 2023
In June, US Ambassador in India, Eric Garcetti, informed that the US Mission in New Delhi had set the target of 1 million visa issuances in 2023. Speaking to an audience at IIT Delhi, Garcetti said, “We’re already doing this. We’re currently processing extra visas, faster, than the US Mission in India ever has earlier than. We have set a aim for ourselves to course of at least a million visas in 2023, and we’re already extra than halfway towards reaching that goal”. India and the US additionally agreed to open two new consulates this 12 months to ease the visa software processes for the migrating workforce
In. 2022, India became the world’s topmost nation with the highest rate of international migrations surpassing China, South Korea, and Japan. According to the US Department of Commerce National Travel and Tourism Office, tourism from India to the United States has doubled and tripled as compared with the pre-pandemic volumes in simply the first five months of 2023
In. his tackle to the Indian diaspora in Washington last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed that Indian professionals can now renew their H1B work visas without having to travel abroad. “America’s new consulates will be opened in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad. It has now been decided that the H1B visa renewal can be carried out in the US itself,” Prime Minister Modi announced as he made the speech at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC
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