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Over 2 million Indians travelled to US in first 11 months of 2024
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Date: August 5th, 2025 7:53 PM Author: AZNgirl telling 5'4 White Guy He's Tall Enough rofl 1 million visas a year
More than two million Indians traveled to the United States in the first eleven months of 2024 — a 26 per cent increase over the same period in 2023.
As per statistics shared by the US Embassy in New Delhi on Friday, over five million Indian citizens have nonimmigrant visas to visit the US. The US mission also said it has issued more than one million nonimmigrant visas for the second year in a row. In the past four years, number of visitors from India have increased five-fold, it said.
“The US mission to India issued more than one million nonimmigrant visas for the second year in a row, including a record number of visitor visas, underscoring the huge demand of Indians for travel to the United States for tourism, business, and education,” it said in a readout.
It said as there has been a rise in processing of thousands of interview waiver-eligible nonimmigrant visa applications each week, it has become easier for Indians to renew their nonimmigrant visas.
Also Read | The PM who risked his govt over N-deal with US: Manmohan Singh steered India to global map The embassy noted that the State Department completed a successful pilot programme to renew H-1B visas in the US this year that allowed many workers from India to renew their visas without leaving the US.
Festive offer “This pilot programme streamlined the renewal process for thousands of applicants, and the Department of State is working to formally establish a US-based renewal program in 2025,” it said.
The US mission to India issued tens of thousands of immigrant visas, facilitating legal family reunification and the migration of skilled professionals, according to the readout. These immigrant visa holders became permanent residents upon their arrival, adding to the already rich and sizable Indian diaspora community in the US, it said.
The US mission to India also provided over 24,000 passports and other consular services to American citizens living and travelling in India, it noted.
The mission also provided details about visas issued to Indian students, adding that India remained the largest sender of international graduate students in the US for the second year. The number of Indian graduates increased by 19 per cent to reach almost two lakh, it said.
“More Indian students than ever before now have U.S. student visas. In 2024, India became the top sender of international students for the first time since the 2008-09 academic year with more than 331,000 students overall studying in the US,” it said.
Many exchange visitors will now be able to remain in the United States and not need to return home for two years after completing their programmes in the US. “The removal of India from the Exchange Visitors Skills List has provided greater flexibility for these Indian J-1 nonimmigrant visa holders,” it said |