The US is investing each ounce of its effort to wipe out the long visa stand by time in India, including sending a unit of consular officials to India and opening up its other abroad consulates in as distant as Germany and Thailand for Indian visa candidates, a senior US visa official has said
The US is investing each ounce of its effort to dispense with the long visa stand by time in India, including sending a unit of consular officials to India and opening up its other abroad consulates in as distant as Germany and Thailand for Indian visa candidates, a senior US visa official has said.
"We're investing each ounce of our effort toward wiping out these (visa) stand by times in India," Agent Partner Secretary for Visa Administrations," Julie Stufft told PTI in a meeting.
Standardization of visa tasks all over the planet right currently is a first concern, she said.
"We're sending a framework of consular officials to help our staff in our consulate and departments in India. They're working movements during the day. They're showing up on Saturday or Sunday, fundamentally to do guest visa interviews, which obviously are currently the last visa type that we have significant delays for," she said.
The US has one of the biggest visa tasks on the planet. "We have many, various visa types that we really want to serve in India. Noticeable among them are visas for understudies, tech laborers, settlers who are moving for all time to the US, and marine team individuals."
The US has managed these except for the greatest classification visa for guests who need a meeting.
Stufft said in dealing with those visa types this year, the US has gained a ton of headway. The sit tight time for a meeting for work visas, for example, H-1B and L1 visas has gone down from year and a half to around 60 days.
India broke the record for most understudy visas last year and it might do so this year once more, she said, adding that India is presently number two on the planet as far as global understudies coming to the US.
"We are truly, we're investing all of our energy presently zeroing in on this visa for guests and those, specifically, on the off chance that you needn't bother with a meeting, you don't have to stand by extremely lengthy by any means for a visa restoration. Furthermore, that is likewise one piece of our technique as well,"she said.
On how the pandemic represented an obstruction in its visa tasks, Stufft said it resembled the US took its greatest machine on the planet to a dramatic end, halting it totally. "Presently we are running it quicker," she said.
The State Division is putting a great deal of weight on the tasks to make for what it lost during that period, with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken taking an individual interest in decreasing the visa stand by time, she said.
"It's simply totally enormous measures of interest in all cases for visa classifications. Also, it's our obligation to fulfill that need and to offer those arrangements. That is the thing we're doing now," the State Division official said.
"We had where we had these arrangements accessible, however we had a 1,000 or more day sit tight time for some of them to now where we have no hang tight times for all visa classifications with the exception of one," he said.
In one visa class the stand by time is still north of 400 days, yet definitely short of what it was before. "It is proceeding to get better consistently, yet 400 days isn't OK," Stufft said.
As per her, handfuls and many consular officials who don't work forever in India are being moved to its different missions in India to help its staff there, "We are spending a colossal measure of labor to come up through this stand by time," she said.
Stufft said their objective this year is to get to the 120 schedule days hang tight time for all of the visa classes.
"That is truly the thing we view as the standard satisfactory all over the planet. In India, this involves perceiving how much interest there is and the way in which we pack that and make interview arrangements accessible so that stand by opportunity really arrives down," she said.
American departments and government offices in and around India and away in Germany have been giving visa arrangements to Indians who are in a situation to travel abroad. "We are improving. It's moving quicker and there will be a day when this is all behind us. The fact that thing's for everybody makes this a. In any case, we've had different consulates around India open up so candidates can go there assuming it's advantageous for them to leave India momentarily to have that visa application," she said.
"Specifically our posts in Germany, Thailand and a couple of others have saved arrangements for Indian candidates, similarly as though they were from that country," she said.
"I comprehend this isn't a possibility for everybody. In any case, I was simply checking our measurements that since October, Indian candidate visa candidates have gone to 192 of our abroad workplaces to apply for a visa. That is staggering. That is practically each of our abroad workplaces abroad.
"So clearly a portion of those candidates were living in an alternate district, yet it truly has been useful for some candidates to apply somewhere else," Stufft said.
"Because of the new extensions of interview waivers, in excess of 30,000 Indian candidates have profited from this. They didn't require a meeting to get their visa however in the new past, they would have required that meeting," she added.
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