"Eric, I want you to bring down visa wait times in India": Envoy recalls US President Biden's order
Biden told him to bring down the visa times in India, adding that it was the first instance that an ambassador was told to look into something like this in any country.
Garcetti underscored that a part of the green card backlog issue is a legislative problem and said that it is what Congress will have to address.
However, he highlighted that the number of visas that have been adjudicated has brought down the waiting time by 75 per cent.
While speaking to ANI, Garcetti said, «Now, part of this is a legislative problem that Congress will have to address on the whether it's the number of legal immigrants, the number of green cards, or the number of people who can become citizens. There's just limits on that. Like any country, I'm sure there's limits here, too. And that is frustrating for Indians, I think, because there's so many Indians who want to come to America. And that's a great part of our news, by the way. Second only to Mexicans, where Indian visas last year, the biggest number of students double the second biggest.»
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«Last year, over 245,000 student visas came from India. Number one in adoptions, number one in all these categories that show 1.4 billion people, a lot of them would love to come to America. And so it's a good problem to have. But a couple of things were changing...,» he said, on being asked about the green card backlog issue, and why there are mostly Indians who are on the backlog.
«We've here in not just Delhi, but across India,
