The Joe Biden administration is conscious of the delay in visa appointments in India and is working to answer the “important demand” for these companies, the White Home stated. This comes because the look forward to visa interviews within the US missions crossed 1,000 days, PTI reported.

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Non-immigrant visa, customer visa (B1/B2), pupil visa (F1/F2), and short-term employee visa (H, L, O, P, Q) appointments with embassies in international locations together with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal have terribly lengthy backlogs.

“I can say that the Biden administration is conscious of the problems,” White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated.

“Whereas now we have made nice strides, as you understand, since you cowl this very intently, in recovering from the pandemic-related closures and staffing challenges, we’re nonetheless working to answer the numerous demand of those visa companies,” Jean-Pierre added.

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“That’s one thing that we’ll proceed to do. We’re efficiently reducing visa interview wait occasions, that is all over the world, and we have doubled our hiring of US International Service personnel to do that vital work. Visa processing is recovering quicker than projected, and this 12 months we anticipate to succeed in pre-pandemic processing ranges,” she additional stated.

Early this week, a presidential fee really helpful president Joe Biden to contemplate issuing a memo to the State Division to cut back the visa appointment wait occasions.

The US Embassy in New Delhi earlier stated that the wait time for non-immigrant visa candidates has gone up because of decreased workforce and coronavirus-related restrictions in operations since March 2020.

The US State Division final month stated that visa processing is rebounding quicker than projected and is anticipated to succeed in pre-pandemic ranges subsequent 12 months.