Indian Embassy Organises Visa Camp in U.S.

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 31 August 2015, 23:56 IST
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WASHINGTON: As part of its objective to address visa related concerns of Indian-Americans at their door steps, Indian Embassy here has hosted a visa camp for the community living in and around the Baltimore area.

About 150 applications for visa, Overseas Citizens of India and Renunciation Certificates were received during the day long camp inaugurated by first secretary (Consular) Prasanna Shrivastava, a media release said on Monday.

During the interaction with the Indian-American Community, Shrivastava apprised the participants of the recent initiatives taken by the Embassy for providing efficient and predictable consular services to the applicants.

The visa camp, through its Service Provider Cox and Kings Global Services, was held this week with support from ISKCON Baltimore and Baltimore Fest.

It was also supported by India Samaj Baltimore, Maryland India Business Roundtable, Shreyas Panchigar Foundation, Gujarati Samaj of Metropolitan Washington, Sikh Association of Baltimore, Guru Nanak Foundation of America, Capitol Area Telugu Society and American Telugu Association from Baltimore.

Last such visa camp was held at Raleigh in North Carolina in May.

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