{"id":1017567,"date":"2026-06-29T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017567"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:31:13","slug":"planning-a-us-trip-tourist-visa-wait-times-in-hyderabad-mumbai-jump-to-9-5-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/planning-a-us-trip-tourist-visa-wait-times-in-hyderabad-mumbai-jump-to-9-5-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a US trip? Tourist visa wait times in Hyderabad, Mumbai jump to 9.5 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest visa appointment data released by the US Department of State, applicants seeking B-1\/B-2 visitor visas in Hyderabad and Mumbai now face average interview wait times of 9.5 months, among the longest reported globally.<\/p>\n<p>The updated figures, released on June 18, also show that wait times have increased in most major Indian cities compared with the previous update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest visa appointment data released by the US Department of State, applicants seeking B-1\/B-2 visitor visas in Hyderabad and Mumbai now face average interview wait times of 9.5 months, among the longest reported globally. The updated figures, released on June 18, also show that wait times have increased in most major Indian cities compared with the previous update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017568,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017567\/revisions\/1017568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}