High Minister Narendra Modi, in his take care of to the Indian diaspora in Washington DC, made a tall announcement for the H1B visa holders.
Giving aid to the experts, he talked about that now people will no longer accumulate to lumber distant places to resume their work visas.
“The united states’s new consulates might be opened in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad. It has now been decided that the H1B visa renewal might also be done in the US itself,” PM Modi talked about while addressing the Indian diaspora on the Ronald Reagan Constructing in Washington DC.
The wide gallop came after a bilateral assembly between High Minister Modi and US President Joe Biden and used to be portion of a people-to-people initiative.
#WATCH | The united states’s new consulates might be opened in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad. It has now been decided that the H1B visa renewal might also be done in the US itself: PM Modi addressing the Indian diaspora on the Ronald Reagan Constructing in Washington, DC pic.twitter.com/rIilreaJcy
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The US authorities released a assertion announcing that they’ll introduce ‘in-nation’ renewable H-1B visas as portion of the people-to-people initiative to smoothen the strategy of H-1B visa renewal for several Indians who’re working in the US on an H-1B visa.
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“Together we don’t seem to be upright forming insurance policies and agreements, we are shaping
lives, dreams and destinies,” talked about PM Modi.
This gallop came after both international locations welcomed an announcement by the US Department of Assert of launching a pilot to adjudicate home renewals of obvious petition-essentially based short work visas later this year.
“The leaders welcomed an announcement by the U.S. Department of Assert that it might perchance perchance well initiate a pilot to adjudicate home renewals of obvious petition-essentially based short work visas later this year, at the side of for Indian nationals, with the intent to place in force this for an expanded pool of H1B and L visa holders in 2024 and in a roundabout plan broadening this blueprint to embody assorted eligible categories,” the India-US joint assertion talked about.
Whereas acknowledging the crucial steps taken to spice up the processing of visa applications, The leaders famed in the joint assertion, “the urgent have to further expedite this direction of. The leaders also directed officers to identify further mechanisms to facilitate lumber for industry, tourism, and knowledgeable and technical exchanges between the two international locations”.
(With inputs from agencies)
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