U.S. Visa Windows In Mumbai To Double

The U.S. Consulate in Mumbai will double the number of U.S. visa windows to 40 from the present 17 when it moves its consulate to its $900 million Bandra-Kurla Complex at the end of 2009.

Mumbai is the sixth busiest visa post in the world among the 246 US consulates and embassies that process visas worldwide, processing 225,000 applications a year. Between them the four Indian consulates in Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi and Kolkata processed 725,000 applications last year.