Interview Tips for Chennai/ Mumbai/ Delhi/ Calcutta

[Ankitc 0]

All pages or just the biography page?

Just biography page and for interview the pages which containd stamps

[Navyk 78]

Dear Desis, I am listing herebelow details of to-do activities and the documents that my wife will be taking with her. Please suggest suitable additions or corrections in the number of photos and copies of the passport...... Since we may have different evidences as proof of on-going relationship, feel free to share your plans. Thanks and all the best.

Medical: Wife plans to go to HYD but open to going to Chennai, if it can done two days prior to Interview (Undecided). Can schedule 15 before interview date at HYD & 4 - 7 days before interview date at Chennai.

• Required cash (approximately 5000-6000)
• Passport & 3 copies of her passport
• Interview letter and a copy
• 3 passport size of recent photos
• Record of prior immunization, if any (She doesn't have)

VFS: (Not sure if we can hand these at Hyderabad VFS, but would love to know that)

• Cash IRS 387.00 ftowards courier fee
• Passport & a copy of her passport (Passport will be taken back to use it to enter Consulate)
• Interview letter and a copy
• 2 passport size photos
• Medical test results

Interview: Go to interview 15 minutes before interview time. Dress well. Answer to the point only. Body language & tone-inflections are important. Looks like a decision is already made before interview, so be cool (don't be nervous).

• Passport & 2 copies of her passport
• Another ID with photo
• 4 passport photos (just in case)
• Copies of I-130, I-864 & DS-230
• Wedding, Reception & Honeymoon trip photos
• Education qualification documents
• List of close relatives with addresses and telephone number that attended wedding (To-do)
• List of telephone call details from Airtel & Reliance
• Copies from Facebook showing photos with comments
• Copy of my 401K showing wife as 100% primary beneficiary
• Copy of my father's 401K showing my wife as 50% secondary beneficiary along with me
• Copy of my apartment lease with my wife as joint lessee
• Copies of remittence to wife's account through ICICI Bank
• Copies of my boarding passes of my March and May trips
• Copy of my latest paycheck (To-do)

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

Looks good to me bhai!

I need to get my list going as well. This is going to help me put my evidence/interview packet together for my wife here soon.

Just a note it's' "INR" not "IRS"

Also my wife is submitting docs you VFS Ahmadabad, what makes Hyderabad different that you cannot submit docs there?

Also I have been around here for a while, I think this upcoming interview pool is going to be quite large and the largest I have seen for us Indians, the more the merrier!

[Navyk 78]

Looks good to me bhai!

I need to get my list going as well. This is going to help me put my evidence/interview packet together for my wife here soon.

Just a note it's' "INR" not "IRS"

Also my wife is submitting docs you VFS Ahmadabad, what makes Hyderabad different that you cannot submit docs there?

Also I have been around here for a while, I think this upcoming interview pool is going to be quite large and the largest I have seen for us Indians, the more the merrier!

I wrote to that supid Chennai VFS inwuiring whether we can submit the VFS requirements at HYD and they were silent on that.

Mumbai website made it clear that you can submit the requirements at other VFS but Chennai didn't make it clear. I guess we can submit at Hyderabad too. If we can submit at VFS HYD, she will go to HYD for Medical and VFS work. She is right now in HYD - will tell her to call VFS HYD and get confirmation.

[Navyk 78]

Here are a few questions that were asked at the consulates in India - as per different reviews posted in the recent past. Almost everyone said "Be cool and answer to the point and help the CO to approve (you know what this means - don't mess up due to nervousness)". A few said that the decision looks like was already made before the interview - that is what they felt.

1. Who is calling you to US? (I guess, who filed your petition)
2. Who is sponsoring you? (in cases where these is a co-sponsor)
3. If this an arranged marraige?
4. If yes, then. Who arranged it? or How did the proposal come?
5. How did you meet your spouse? ro Hwen did you first meet your spouse?
6. If someone other than your parents, then. How does he know you or your parents....?
7. Did you go on honeymoon or was your marraige consumated?
8. If you went on honeymoon, then. Where did you go? Why did you decide to go? How many days?
9. How many people attanded your marraige? or Who all (close relatives) came to attend your wedding?
10. Show me your spouse's parents in the picture?
11. What does your spouse do in US?
12. What is your spouse's full name?
13. What is your spouse's income?
14. How long your spouse has been in US?
15. When did your spouse become a Citizen/ Naturalized? (question depends)
16. Who did he go with to US?
17. What is his major in college? or Where did he study?
18. Where does he work currently? (May be study now in other cases?) or What does your husband do for living?
19. Where is your spouse currently? (helps those that accompanied their spouses)
20. How long has spouse been staying in that place?
21. What is his boss name? (surpised at this question)
22. When are you planning to go to US?
23. What are the full names of your in-laws? (funny but one of those was asked)
24. Where do your in-laws work in US? (I guess they mean their employers)

Tough questions were asked for those that have previous history of divorce, where there is big age difference,..... Be prepared for those questions if you fall into that category. The K-1 visa applicants were invariably asked to give a list of future wedding plans & arrangements, guest list, reception plans & arrangements, honeymoon plans.......

[Ankitc 0]

Hello guys

I submitted my documents to VFS and I'm attaching the letter I received apart from payment receipt.

http://i51.tinypic.com/24l0t5l.jpg

She asked me to carry my school living certificate,AOS,X-ray,Vaccination Report and proof of relationship at the interview.

Regards

[Navyk 78]

Hello guys

I submitted my documents to VFS and I'm attaching the letter I received apart from payment receipt.

http://i51.tinypic.com/24l0t5l.jpg

She asked me to carry my school living certificate,AOS,X-ray,Vaccination Report and proof of relationship at the interview.

Regards

Any reason you submitted the DS-230 related documents at VFS? Didn't you submit those at NVC.

[Ankitc 0]

Any reason you submitted the DS-230 related documents at VFS? Didn't you submit those at NVC.

I have submitted certified copy of birth and marriage certificate to NVC so I have to submit original to VFS and the lady at counter asked me if I have form ds-230 ? I said yes then she asked me sign and date part one of the form.

Edited August 24, 2011 by Ankitc

[Navyk 78]

I have submitted certified copy of birth and marriage certificate to NVC so I have to submit original to VFS and the lady at counter asked me if I have form ds-230 ? I said yes then she asked me sign and date part one of the form.

That means the certified copies are good enough for NVC but one will have to submit the Originals either at Interview or to VFS. Makes sense.

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

Thanks for the reciept! It really helps us out!

We turned in my wife's sole birth certificate that she had with the IV Packet . But we did make several true copies just in case something happened. Would this suffice for VFS?

Edited August 24, 2011 by Dave and Kinnari

[Ankitc 0]

Thanks for the reciept! It really helps us out!

We turned in my wife's sole birth certificate that she had with the IV Packet . But we did make several true copies just in case something happened. Would this suffice for VFS?

Just photocopies are fine IF you have submitted original to NVC and also take another DS-230 sign and dated (orginal) at VFS just in case they ask for.

I was on safe side and didnt send originals because I have seen people whose original documents was lost by NVC.

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

Just photocopies are fine IF you have submitted original to NVC and also take another DS-230 sign and dated (orginal) at VFS just in case they ask for.

I was on safe side and didnt send originals because I have seen people whose original documents was lost by NVC.

Ahhh ok, I understand now.

Thanks, your posts are really helping us solve the puzzle that is known as VFS! lol

[hitu 0]

Thanks for the reciept! It really helps us out!

We turned in my wife's sole birth certificate that she had with the IV Packet . But we did make several true copies just in case something happened. Would this suffice for VFS?

Hi

Right now my is going to VSF office Mumbai. I hv q. I submitted original birth certificate and certified copy of marriage certificate with DS 230 package. So, now VSF office looking for original marriage certificate or not. Is certified marriage certificate is ok with Mumbai consulate. We got certified marriage certificate from Government office. They did not give us original. They said this same as original. The certified copy has original black pen sign and stamp.

So Do i have to submitte original marriage certificate to VSF or Mumbai consulate or not?

Is certified copy of marriage certificated is good or not?

Thankx

[hitu 0]

Hello guys

I submitted my documents to VFS and I'm attaching the letter I received apart from payment receipt.

http://i51.tinypic.com/24l0t5l.jpg

She asked me to carry my school living certificate,AOS,X-ray,Vaccination Report and proof of relationship at the interview.

Regards

What is your Date of interview? you don't have timeline so kind of confuse. My wife got sep 07. Thankx for receipt image.

[Dave and Kinnari 31]

For the medical portion, is it full copies (all pages) of the passport or just biography page?