As the value of US$ grows higher, the Consular Exchange Rate has been revised one more time with effect from today (November 29, 2011). The revised consular rate is INR 54 to a US$ from the most recent revision of INR 52 to a US$. Effectively, the INR equivalent for all the non-immigrant and immigrant visa application fee would be affected.

With the revised exchange rate, the non-immigrant visa application fee for petition based visas like H, L would be INR 8,100 per applicant (US$150 x INR 54) and the fee for other non-petition based categories like B, F, M, J would be INR 7,560 (US$ 140 x INR 54). If an applicant purchased the HDFC receipt prior to November 29, 2011 and one year has not elapsed since the date of purchase, s/he can use this to schedule a visa interview.

This press release can be found here.