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US Consulate @ Hyderabad starts VISA service

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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US consulate in Hyderabad

US Ambassador David C. Mulford said his country’s fourth consulate in the city would be operational by the end of 2008 in hyderabad . Mr Mulford and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy on Tuesday signed a lease agreement for establishing the consulate at Paigah Palace for 5 years .

Earlier US President George W. Bush had promised to establish a consulate in Hyderabad during his visit to India and support of $ 7.6 million was announced for this. Hyderabad was chosen because of its strategic location and its strengths in the areas of biotechnology, information technology and many other fields.

Mr Mulford went on to say that Hyderabad was a well managed city with fewer problems .He thanked the Chief Minister for allotting 12 acres of prime land near Gachibowli for the permanent consulate, which would take nearly five years to complete.Demand for US visas from the State was growing year by year and the present consulate at Chennai was unable to cater to the demand, said Mr Mulford.