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The United States will open two new consulates in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, to boost people-to-people relationships, a senior White House official said..
The official said the US issued a record 125,000 visas to Indian students last year..
Indian students are set to become the largest foreign student community in the United States with a 20 per cent increase last year alone, the senior administration official said...
The US Department of State is going to launch a pilot to adjudicate domestic renewals of certain petition-based temporary work visas later this year, including for Indian nationals with the intent to implement this for an expanded pool, the official said.. India has five consulates in the US in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston and Atlanta, apart from the embassy in Washington...
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