Some gods grant riches and others good luck, but one deity in India offers a much less nebulous fortune to his devotees: tickets to a new life in the United States. More than 1,000 Hindu faithful ...

For example, the Chilkur Balaji temple in Hyderabad, is also known as the ‘Visa Balaji temple’. Devotees here offer prayers to Lord Balaji, seeking his blessings for visa approvals ...

It honours Balaji, an incarnation ... and their US visa applications "swiftly came through" afterwards. Now, unsurprisingly, the temple is "especially popular among computer professionals and ...