US lawmakers have urged the Joe Biden administration to address the visa wait time issue in India on a priority basis. According to a report by the news agency PTI on Thursday (June 8), during two separate Congressional hearings on consular affairs budget, Senator Bob Menendez (Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee), and Congressman Michael Waltz (Co-Chair of the House India Caucus), asked the US State Department officials why people in India were facing visa wait time up to 600 days.