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India connected Friday (December 26, 2025) said it flagged its concerns to the U.S. implicit cancellation of pre-scheduled H1B visa interviews of ample numbers of Indian applicants and that some sides are engaged connected the issue.
The interviews of thousands of H-1B visa applicants slated from the mediate of this month successful India person been abruptly postponed by respective months to scrutinise their societal media posts and online profiles.
Some of the applicants, whose visa appointments were scheduled past week, received e-mails from US migration authorities informing that their interviews are being pushed backmost arsenic precocious arsenic May adjacent year.
The authorities of India has received respective representations from Indian nationals who are facing problems with their rescheduling of their visa appointments, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said astatine his play media briefing.
Visa-related issues pertain to the sovereign domain of immoderate country, helium said, adding: "we person flagged these issues and our concerns to the US side, some present successful New Delhi and successful Washington DC."
Mr. Jaiswal said respective Indians person been stranded for extended periods of clip successful India causing a batch of "hardships" to them and their families.
"The authorities of India remains actively engaged with the U.S. broadside to minimise the disruptions caused to our nationals," helium said.
The wide cancellation of scheduled interviews of the H-1B visa applicants successful presumption of the enhanced vetting measures has resulted successful important delays successful their instrumentality to the U.S.
The rescheduling of the interviews is for each applicants who were antecedently fixed appointments from December 15 onwards.
Most of them were already successful India and are present incapable to instrumentality to the US pending their caller interrogation dates since they don't person a valid H1B visa to question backmost to the U.S. for their jobs.
