MEDIA: US issues over one million visas for second consecutive year, India tops international student rankings

The anonymous Times of India hack on whether Donald Trump will order
Marco Rubio to order State.GOV foreign service officers to reinstitute
Trump's extreme vetting:
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| The United States issued a record-breaking number of visas, crossing
| one million for the second year in a row and also India became the
| top sender of international students for the first time since the
| 2008/2009 academic year in 2024.
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| The US mission to India underscored the huge demand of Indians for
| travel to the United States for tourism, business, education and
| this was seen in the data as well.
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| In the past four years, visitor numbers from India have increased by
| five times, and more than two million Indians traveled to the United
| States in the first eleven months of 2024, a 26 percent increase
| over the same period in 2023. Over five million Indians already have
| a nonimmigrant visa to visit the United States and each day the
| Mission issues thousands more, according to the statement released
| by the US embassy in India.

Will Rubio's State.GOV FSOs continue to serve as marketoons for Big .EDU
presidents and deans desperate to rent American classroom seats and
laboratory stools to the 8.1+B globe's top two quintiles?
John
groenveld@acm.org
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indentured H1Bs to pad profits US and foreign workers bear costs
Scandals exposed Corps spend $ on phony studies, lobbying, PR,
campaign contributions - media confused Washington turns blind eye
Dems not accountable" - Ron Hira
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