These include more and more categories being waived off from visa interviews, sending dozens of officials to India to conduct the interviews, screening of visa applications by officials at the State Department here in the US, involving officials from its other diplomatic missions in the process and opening up its embassies and missions in other countries as far as Thailand and Germany for Indian visa-seekers for an in-person interview.For first-time visitor appointments, weve cut a year and two months off the wait time already.