The US Travel association has asked the Obama Administration to reduce visa wait time to under 10 days especially in countries like India, China and Brazil. 

The Association also urged the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) to reduce the security screening wait time at major airports to less than 10 minutes.

"We've got to decrease visa wait times to 10 days or less around the world. State Department should be challenged and should put plans together to really see that in all countries it's under 10 days, but especially emphasising countries like Brazil, China and India," the Association's president and CEO Roger Dow told reporters in a conference call.

He said his body has also sought the reduction of screening time at airports which needs to be done both during peak times as well as non-peak times.

We ask the TSA be able to employ the technology and the resources to get to 10 minutes or less at all major airports, and especially at peak times. It doesn't do us good to average 15 hours a day 10 minutes or less," he said.

Dow said it was important to employ several tactics to achieve these ends, like increasing staff to meet the demand levels. "It's having six hours a day of having the consular officers be able to do interviews, looking at double shifts to maximise the facilities that we have, and increasing the – the dates of visa validity," he said. He also advocated issuance of multiple year visa to businessmen