More student visas issued in 2022
Nearly 1,25,000 student visas issued to Indians in 2022: US State Dept
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price acknowledged the delay in issuing visas, and assured, “It is a priority of the Secretary and of the Department to do everything we can to reduce that backlog and ultimately to reduce the wait times.”
Nearly 1,25,000 student visas were issued to Indians to study in the United States in 2022. A spokesperson for the US State Department Wednesday said this was the most issued in any year since 2016.
“We issued more student visas in the fiscal year 2022 than in any year since 2016,” said Ned Price, US State Department spokesperson, during a press conference. He was responding to a query regarding the steps the US was taking to reduce visa backlogs that ran up to 1,200 days last year.
Price acknowledged the delay, and assured, “It is a priority of the Secretary and of the Department to do everything we can to reduce that backlog and ultimately to reduce the wait times.”
In December 2022, the WhiteHouse admitted there were long delays in visa appointments, and said the Joe Biden administration was working to respond to the “significant demand of these visa services.” People seeking appointments for non-immigrant visas, visitor visas (B1/B2), student visas (F1/F2), and temporary worker visas (H, L, O, P, Q) with embassies in countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, faced extraordinarily long backlogs last year.
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