More than 20% increase in student visas.
Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: The number of Indian students visiting the United States is on the rise per visa application processing figures from the American embassy in India.
“Last year, the number of visa applications increased by almost 20 per cent, but the number of visas applications by students increased by more than 20 per cent,” U.S. Consul General in Mumbai Thomas J. Vajda told reporters in Mumbai.
He also indicated India sends the second-most students to the United States, trailing on China.
“For India, we issued almost 900,000 visas and in Mumbai alone it was 300,000 last year. So visa allocation last year was 20 per cent more than the previous year. We have spent hundred million dollars in India to create new facilities for visa services,” Vajda stated.
The U.S. embassy in India got 1,500 to 2,000 visa applications a day, he continued, reported the Press Trust of India. “Most of them are issued a ten-year visa. 65 percent of those getting H-1B [visas] are Indians.”
In 2011, the U.S. embassy in New Delhi rose to 103,260 from 94,563 the year before. Each year since then, the amount of Indian students percolating to the U.S. has increased substantially.
Strict U.K. visa rules may be one factor encouraging young minds to emigrate to the U.S.
“Indian students … believe that it’s exceptionally difficult to get a scholarship and have to pay three times the fee paid by a U.K. citizen. The majority of them prefer the U.S.,” said Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Commerce and Industry Minister, at an event in London earlier this month.
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when and why is this student visa day celebrated
That is the reason I can’t get a job after 3 years of applying for computer programmer position. I keep getting financial aid bills. Last few interviews, I heard they hired Indians and believe me they get their visa, citizenship and good life with the help of corporations and government. Just in 2014 and 2015 almost 2 million visas issued for Indians. So it means 2 million professional jobs, housing, and better quality life for Americans.
wrong data man. Do your research again. there are 900,000 international students in usa all over the world, you are saying us issued 300,000 visas to just bombay itself hahaha
It is not just student visas.. IT is al visas combined. the total number of f1 students in USA now is 5 lakhs..what a joke of an article…It includes about half a million b1/b1 1 lakh h1 vsias and 1 lakh l1 visas…and many more categories…f1 visas issued in 2014 was about 50,000.
Great news! But how many Indian Students are getting permanent citizenship?
Indians will do ANYTHING to run away from India… And for long people in US believed it was raw talent and helped with nonsense about STEM shortage, thousands crawled into US> Now everyone knows there is no STEM shortage and what kind of talent they get