{"id":15506,"date":"2016-12-12T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=15506"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:51:33","slug":"second-usa-consulate-complex-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/second-usa-consulate-complex-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad to Get New USA Consulate General Complex for $203 Million in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana, is to get a new US Consulate complex by 2020. Announced in June 2016 by the US State Department, the project will cost $203 million and is supposed to be finished in 2020.<\/strong> The second USA Consulate complex in Hyderabad will spread over 12 acres in a high-tech area. It will have an accommodation facility for Marine security guards, service support buildings and other facilities for the consulate staff.<\/p>\n The existing US Consulate in Hyderabad currently processes 300 to 400 visa applications on a daily basis, which is increasing day by day. In India, Hyderabad<\/a><\/span> sends the highest number of students to USA every year<\/strong>. Based on the data from 2008 to 2012, Brookings Institution, a Washington DC based think tank, reported that the largest number of F1 visas from India was issued to Hyderabad (26220). The figure was 30,000 when combined with the number of F1 visas issued to the applicants from Secunderabad for the 2008-2012 period. The F1 visas issued to the undivided Andhra Pradesh, including Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam, were more than 30,000 for the given period.<\/p>\n