Hyderabad: Appointments for US Student Visas to Open in Mid-May

They tweeted. “Student Visas Mission India issued a record number of student visas last year 62.000 adding that they are looking forward to interviewing more students this year. Further, they announced that the appointments will start opening in mid-May for interviews starting in June. The tweet also informed that students should tell the visa interviewer how their course of study makes sense to the candidates

Mid-April, a bipartisan congressional delegation of US lawmakers visited Boeing and Lockheed Martin facilities in Hyderabad, emphasizing Telangana’s role in aerospace and defense.

Additionally, legislators met with top US companies and visited the new USD 300 million consulate compound in Nanakaramguda.

As well, the US embassy in Delhi’s minister counselor for consular affairs, Donald L. Heflin, had said that the best time for Indian candidates to get their visas approved is the first interview of the year.

However, he added that this can only be done by blocking students who refused a US visa for the first time

In a 30-minute Facebook live video, Heflin said that Indian students with an F1 student visa have a good chance of obtaining a visa in the interview while the chances of being refused are high in the 2nd or 3rd interview.

Due to the ongoing pandemic last year, the student visa interviews in India began quite late around mid-June. This year, they plan to start the student visa interviews earlier in mid-May, with the hope of getting more students than last year.