At the Indian consulate in San Francisco alone, the number of visas granted to Americans to work in India almost doubled, from 23,085 in 2009 to 47,929 in 2010. And those numbers don’t include Americans of Indian origin who have applied for special visas. In the same period in Beijing, there was a 51 percent jump to 32,932 Indian work visas granted. In the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, that increase was 27 percent to 20,550; in Shanghai, a 30 percent rise to 24,382.
Other countries across the globe reflected the same trend. The number of Indian work visas issued in Singapore soared by 33 percent from 21588 in 2009 to 28650 in 2010. In Europe, the Indian visa office in Paris doled out 41 percent more work authorizations in the same period, while Berlin saw 48 percent more Germans clamor to work in India, granting 49,104 visas. Full story
