India, Goyal says, has made the request to the US that they may speed up the issuance of regular business visas when people come in for short trips to pursue their trade and business interests
Washington: India discussed with the US the delays in issue of business visas to the people from India, and there has been a good resonance of it by the Americans, visiting Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday, January 11, a PTI report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
“We found very good resonance to our request that issuance of business visas which is taking a long time back home in India is an area which needs to be expedited so that business persons interested on both sides in trade, investment and business, do not suffer .
Goyal told reporters at the conclusion of the India-US Trade Policy Forum meeting “that US businesses and Indian businesses need to have faster processing of business issues”.
Goyal said, he had made the request to the US that they might speed up the issuance of regular business visas when people came in for short trips to pursue their trade and business interests.
“We are delighted that the movement of professional and skilled workers, students, investors, business travellers, all are expanding between the two countries. That has helped increase our bilateral relations,” he noted.
“We are grateful that the US was able to process the student visas on an expedited basis so that in the post covid-19 scenario, our students could come to the US to pursue their studies in the fall of 2022 semester. We are now requesting them to see how we can resolve the movement of business persons on short-term stays to the US,” Goyal said.
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