Tyler said online visa forms would be specially tailored for three categories of US visa seekers - students, tourists and business people.
David Tyler, consular section chief in Mumbai-based American Consulate General, has said that non-migrant visa seekers to US will continue to be interviewed at the consulate even though applications can be made online from February 1.
“Though a non-immigrant visa seeker has to obtain new simpler visa form online and apply for visa through the internet, the applicant will continue to be interviewed at the consulate in Mumbai. The visa application will be processed online and the applicant will be given appointment for interview online,” Tyler told DNA in a telephone interview from Mumbai on Sunday.
He said online visa forms would be specially tailored for three categories of US visa seekers - students, tourists and business people.
When pointed out that many Indians had shown less interest in USA on account of recession there as per a recent study conducted by an American university, Tyler said: “In fact, if you go by figures of the visas given to Indians in 2008 and 2009, the figure had jumped from 93,000 to over one lakh.”
Recalling his maiden visit to Kutch as acting consul general early this month to inaugurate the 20-day annual Bidada medical camp, he said it was most educative in the field of rural health.
Tyler said that following talks between prime minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama during Singh's recent visit to the US, health ministers of both the countries would shortly meet on a special research programme on new polio vaccine developed by India.
He said their new consulate building in a sprawling area was now under construction at Bandra and they planed to move in there this summer.
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