US consulate after much delay finally has started visa issuing services from 4 th March 2009 at Paigah Palace which located at Begumpet locality of Hyderabad , India . Interview appointments for all visas began from 4 th march 2009 according to the local news papers . And it is expected to process around 100 visas per day and gradually increasing to 400 visas per day. Currently these services will be only for the people from Andhra Pradesh.
According to unconfirmed reports maximum number of students who aspires to go to USA for further studies are from Andhra Pradesh. Moreover Hyderabad is turning out to be a major IT destination which has presence of many top US based companies like Microsoft , Yahoo , cognizant and others . Many of employees of these companies needs to visit frequently to US based on the requirements and starting of these consulate services is of much relief to them and are saved from travelling to Chennai for obtaining Visas .
A permanent US Consulate service is expected to start its services from at Gachibowli , AP state government has promised to allocate 10 acres of land for this purpose . For more details u can visit the US consulates official website which is given below.
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