Anil Jethwani, who has settled in Florida, is busy preparing for his daughter's wedding, but he is sad that his own will not be able to reach the wedding. 25 close relatives, including his younger brother, live in India. They are not getting the visitor visa appointment before 2024. Many such Indian families are troubled by the waiting time for US visas.
The desire to get thousands of students and employment-based visas is not going to be fulfilled even in 2023 as the limit of 65,000 H1B work visas for 2022-23 has been exhausted. Now its doors will open only in April 2024. In 2019, the number of pending applications for US visas was less than 60 thousand. So the interview appointment was getting every month.
Visa appointment has also become impossible. The waiting time has exceeded 700 days. The waiting time for a visitor visa in Delhi is 758 days and in Mumbai 752 days. However, getting a US tourist visa is not much of a problem.
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Travelers argue that when the corona is almost over, then what is the need for this form? In this regard, officials of the Ministry of Civil Aviation said that Corona is not completely over in the world yet. We are keeping the details of each passenger as a precaution so that tracking can be easy later if needed.
The officials of the Ministry of Health and Civil Aviation had decided in a meeting on September 2 that the system of self-declaration would continue, as there is still less vaccination in many countries. We cannot leave the precaution. Anyway, it takes a minute to fill out the form.
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