US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti heaped reward on Indian IT and different professionals, aspirants touchdown dream jobs in high US corporations.
He stated that at present there’s a scenario whereby one in 10 CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations now could be an Indian immigrant who studied within the US.
“The old joke was you could not become a CEO in the US if you are Indian, now the joke is you cannot become a CEO in America if you are not Indian, whether it is Google, Microsoft or Starbucks, people have come and made a big difference,” he joked.
Invariably, the scenario that Eric Garcetti talked about finds floor within the massive variety of aspirants in several fields and college students pursuing every kind of upper research at American universities.
In 2023 alone, a report 1.4 million US visas had been offered to Indian nationals total.
Just a day earlier than, Eric Garcetti stated that the quantity is ‘going up yearly, upon being requested if he anticipated an additional rise within the variety of visa functions in 2024.
“American universities are such extraordinary places to come to, wonderful communities, great research, wonderful faculty. I think that will continue to be a driver for a young population, a growing population, and the biggest population in the world. It is also a friend of the United States. These things together. I don’t see the number of students going backwards in our lifetime,” he was quoted as saying by news company PTI.
Garcetti additionally shared that President Joe Biden instructed him to chop down the wait time for American visas in India.
This is the primary time a US president has given such an instruction to an envoy in any nation, the envoy stated. The wait time in India for a US visa is 250 days.
With inputs from PTI
Source: www.indiatoday.in
