‘One lakh student visa applications pending for Canada’: BJP MP flags delay in Lok Sabha

“Several students have paid Rs 10-15 lakh as fees and are finding it difficult to get visas as several embassies are still closed. The problem is particularly acute with Canada where more than one lakh visa applications are pending,” Shetty said.

He said cultural troupes from Gujarat were finding it difficult to get visas for performances in the US.

Shetty, a member from Mumbai North, urged the government to take up the issue with respective countries and also issue a clarification to the effect as the problem was with the embassies and not with the External Affairs Ministry.