US Embassy in India breaks record, issues one million visas for second consecutive year
The Statesman Bhubaneswar|December 28, 2024
The US Embassy and its consulates in India issued more than one million nonimmigrant visas for the second year in a row, including a record number of visitor visas, underscoring the huge demand of Indians for travel to the US for tourism, business, and education.
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In the past four years, visitor numbers from India have increased by five times, and more than two million Indians traveled to the US in the first eleven months of 2024, a 26 per cent increase over the same period in 2023, a US Embassy release said on Friday.

Over five million Indians already have a non-immigrant visa to visit the US and each day the Mission issues thousands more.

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