US Mission to India: 2.5 lakh visa appointments announced by Embassy for Indians

New Delhi: The US Mission to India opened an additional 250,000 visa appointments for Indian travelers, including tourists, skilled workers, and students. The recently released new slots will help hundreds of thousands of Indian applicants take timely interviews, facilitating the travel which is the backbone of the people-to-people ties that underpin the US-India relationship, the.

New Delhi: The US Mission to India opened an additional 250,000 visa appointments for Indian travelers, including tourists, skilled workers, and students.

The recently released new slots will help hundreds of thousands of Indian applicants take timely interviews, facilitating the travel which is the backbone of the people-to-people ties that underpin the US-India relationship, the US embassy in New Delhi announced in an official statement Today.

The US Mission to India has already surpassed one million nonimmigrant visa applications for the second consecutive year, according to the US embassy in New Delhi statement.

“More than 1.2 million Indians have traveled to the United States year to date in 2024, a 35 per cent increase over the same period in 2023,” the statement added.

At least six million Indians already have a nonimmigrant visa to visit the United States, and each day, the Mission issues thousands more.