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A “Site dedication” rite for the next American consulate in Bangalore is scheduled for January 17, according to an invitation that travels on social networks. However, the precise location of the long -awaited consulate has not yet been revealed, the official announcement expected the event.
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As indicated through money control, the rite will take a position in a personal hotel in Bengaluru. Meanwhile, the consulate will make paintings temporarily from the JW Marriott hotel in Vittal Malleya Road, where it will also begin to deliver visas. Finally, the operations will be transferred to a compromised and completely supplied installation. Currently, the United States Commercial Service (USCS) in Bangalore operates from the same hotel.
Bengaluru South deputy, Texasvi Surya, had announced in the past in X that the American Consulate would begin operations in Bengaluru from January. Under the pressure that Bengaluru, the medium that generated 40% of Indian’s income, did not have an American consulate, forced citizens to go to Chennai or Hyderabad for visa -related factors. Surya said that the solution of this factor was a precedence his mandate as a deputy.
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Surya accredited the decisive participation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi his stop in the United States in 2023 to end the status quo of the consulate reciprocally. The United States ambassador, Eric Garcetti, a consultation with the Indian Business Council (USIBC) of the United States (USIBC), admitted that the absence of an American consulate in Bangalore was a vital surveillance for a city identified to global scale for generation and innovation.
Surya also under pressure that the new consulate deserves to obtain advantages of Karnataka from four to five Lakh in Karnataka. Under the pressure that the citizens of Bengaluru had to pass to Chennai, Hyderabad or New Delhi for US Visa services, incurring expenses between 2five, 000 and 30,000 ₹. Despite one of the largest populations of academics and generation professionals that passed to the United States, Bengaluru had no consulate. Surya expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Modi and praised the decision of the White House, noting that the new American consulate will significantly facilitate the remedy of visas for thousands of other people through the State.