Calling all INDIAN couples also who have an Indian spouse

[fortune 0]

raj

did they let you go in with US passport??

Fortune

[Raj0000 0]

raj

did they let you go in with US passport??

Fortune

NO, in mumbai they dont allow anyone except the applicants. period.

So I had to wait outside!!!

[Raj0000 0]

For those of you doing CR/IR1 process and have already gone for the interview or will be in the next week or two.. I wanted to inquire about the whole VCF process.

On the Mumbai site, it says that all the required documents need to be submited to your local VCF office. Does this also include the results from the medical exam? The reason I ask is that my wife is in Rajkot Gujarat, the medicals can only be done in Mumbai, and VCF states that all documents need to be submited 10 days prior to the interview.

So would that mean my wife would need to go to mumbai and get her medical done so she can submit it 10 days prior to the interview? Or can she go to the VCF office in Ahamdabhad and submit all the documents except the medical and do that a couple of days before the interview and take the results with her for the interview?

Also, at the VCF, what are the total fees that need to be paid?

Thanks guys

A response would be greatly appriciated to the question above

We had gone throu this...and I am also very familiar with lots of applicants from Rajkot/Ahmedabad area....answers to your questions are as below:

(1) she can submit the paperwork except medical to ahmedabad VFS office. The rule to submit papers to VFS is max. 15 days before but min 10 days beofe. Pl remember these are 10 & 15 working days..so exclude weekends and holidays from it..(for ex, my wife's interview was on 1st feb so window to submit was 8th jan to 16 jan...as threre were few hoildays in between...so get the idea?)

(2) it is better if she can go in person to submit papers to VFS..because they need to see passport to put some tracking barcode on it...so its good to go in person as u need to carry passport and original appt letter.

(3) Rs. 365 can be paid in CASH...

(4) For medical, she can fix appt in mumbai one or two days before interview date and get it done in one trip. They give report same day...so she can carry that with her in interview...no problem.

Hope this helps....if there are any more question, feel free to let me know....

good luck.....

[devblt 0]

For those of you doing CR/IR1 process and have already gone for the interview or will be in the next week or two.. I wanted to inquire about the whole VCF process.

On the Mumbai site, it says that all the required documents need to be submited to your local VCF office. Does this also include the results from the medical exam? The reason I ask is that my wife is in Rajkot Gujarat, the medicals can only be done in Mumbai, and VCF states that all documents need to be submited 10 days prior to the interview.

So would that mean my wife would need to go to mumbai and get her medical done so she can submit it 10 days prior to the interview? Or can she go to the VCF office in Ahamdabhad and submit all the documents except the medical and do that a couple of days before the interview and take the results with her for the interview?

Also, at the VCF, what are the total fees that need to be paid?

Thanks guys

A response would be greatly appriciated to the question above

We had gone throu this...and I am also very familiar with lots of applicants from Rajkot/Ahmedabad area....answers to your questions are as below:

(1) she can submit the paperwork except medical to ahmedabad VFS office. The rule to submit papers to VFS is max. 15 days before but min 10 days beofe. Pl remember these are 10 & 15 working days..so exclude weekends and holidays from it..(for ex, my wife's interview was on 1st feb so window to submit was 8th jan to 16 jan...as threre were few hoildays in between...so get the idea?)

(2) it is better if she can go in person to submit papers to VFS..because they need to see passport to put some tracking barcode on it...so its good to go in person as u need to carry passport and original appt letter.

(3) Rs. 365 can be paid in CASH...

(4) For medical, she can fix appt in mumbai one or two days before interview date and get it done in one trip. They give report same day...so she can carry that with her in interview...no problem.

Hope this helps....if there are any more question, feel free to let me know....

good luck.....

Raj,

Thanks for the detailes. At what time in the process did you guys have the police clearence certificate taken care off? Is it advisable to get it taken off now.. or is there any specific reason to wait until we get the interview letter?

[ManuNSam 1]

most police departments require to show proof you need the police clearance certificate. so you ahve to wait until you have your packet 3/3.5 papers. those papers shows as a required item to have the police certificate.

if you have that then i wouldnt wait to get your police certificate. i would start now. some places have shown to take a 30 day turnaround time. other places (as my husband experienced) simply had difficulty completing the task and we had to bug em a million times to get it.

so start on police certificate now if you can.

sam

[Nikita2Charles 32]

Congrats!!!!!

Hi All:

My wife had successful CR1 interview at mumbai two days back....

I have posted her exp in detail at the link below:

http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.p...nty=&page=1

Feel free to let me know if there are any questions......

Good luck to rest of you in you in your journey....

Raj

[devblt 0]

Congrats!!!!!

Nikita - you share your name with my sister!

[Raj0000 0]

For those of you doing CR/IR1 process and have already gone for the interview or will be in the next week or two.. I wanted to inquire about the whole VCF process.

On the Mumbai site, it says that all the required documents need to be submited to your local VCF office. Does this also include the results from the medical exam? The reason I ask is that my wife is in Rajkot Gujarat, the medicals can only be done in Mumbai, and VCF states that all documents need to be submited 10 days prior to the interview.

So would that mean my wife would need to go to mumbai and get her medical done so she can submit it 10 days prior to the interview? Or can she go to the VCF office in Ahamdabhad and submit all the documents except the medical and do that a couple of days before the interview and take the results with her for the interview?

Also, at the VCF, what are the total fees that need to be paid?

Thanks guys

A response would be greatly appriciated to the question above

We had gone throu this...and I am also very familiar with lots of applicants from Rajkot/Ahmedabad area....answers to your questions are as below:

(1) she can submit the paperwork except medical to ahmedabad VFS office. The rule to submit papers to VFS is max. 15 days before but min 10 days beofe. Pl remember these are 10 & 15 working days..so exclude weekends and holidays from it..(for ex, my wife's interview was on 1st feb so window to submit was 8th jan to 16 jan...as threre were few hoildays in between...so get the idea?)

(2) it is better if she can go in person to submit papers to VFS..because they need to see passport to put some tracking barcode on it...so its good to go in person as u need to carry passport and original appt letter.

(3) Rs. 365 can be paid in CASH...

(4) For medical, she can fix appt in mumbai one or two days before interview date and get it done in one trip. They give report same day...so she can carry that with her in interview...no problem.

Hope this helps....if there are any more question, feel free to let me know....

good luck.....

Raj,

Thanks for the detailes. At what time in the process did you guys have the police clearence certificate taken care off? Is it advisable to get it taken off now.. or is there any specific reason to wait until we get the interview letter?

I would recommend to start working on PCC(police certis.) ASAP. Its good to have them early in your possession before interview. In Mumbai, as we got it, they dont ask for any proof to show them from US consl or anything. You just have to mention that you need it for the US Visa. So I am sure that is case with Ahmedabad. In case if they ask any proof, get the packet-3 checklist printout from mumbai consl web site and take it along to show them.

Good luck....

[rizthomson 3]

hi everybody............its good to seee that this thread is being regularly read and messages are posted here...........thaaaaaank you guys......

congraaaaaaats Raj for your wifes successful interview.......

we went to mumbai for the medical examination.........done it in the Breach Candy Hospital.....their were only seven applicants on that particualar day.........had to take two shots also.... got on 3 pm of the same day.........next day that is on 6th submitted the documents at the VFS office.......also took two tickets for the interview date.......they said they will take us to the interview place and also will serve snacks and my wife can wait at the lounge...........hey guys did anybody went like that........i bought two coupons for us........and asked if we can also go directly to the embassy and they said ya we can........

so anybody here went like that..........i mean did anybody used this facility of VFS..

bye for now........tooo sleepy at the moment as we just came back to our home in bhopal 2 hrs back......and now its midnight here ......c u later.......

riz siby

[Raj0000 0]

hi everybody............its good to seee that this thread is being regularly read and messages are posted here...........thaaaaaank you guys......

congraaaaaaats Raj for your wifes successful interview.......

we went to mumbai for the medical examination.........done it in the Breach Candy Hospital.....their were only seven applicants on that particualar day.........had to take two shots also.... got on 3 pm of the same day.........next day that is on 6th submitted the documents at the VFS office.......also took two tickets for the interview date.......they said they will take us to the interview place and also will serve snacks and my wife can wait at the lounge...........hey guys did anybody went like that........i bought two coupons for us........and asked if we can also go directly to the embassy and they said ya we can........

so anybody here went like that..........i mean did anybody used this facility of VFS..

bye for now........tooo sleepy at the moment as we just came back to our home in bhopal 2 hrs back......and now its midnight here ......c u later.......

riz siby

riz:

Got the msg too. No we didnot use VFS facility primarily because I didnot find it that useful(May be its just us!!!)...the rationale for not using the VFS facilities are:

- They just take you to US consl in shuttle bus which is only few blocks away...but to use this you need to reach at 7:00 in morning...while we went strt at 7:45 to consl gate...no worry...so I dint find it exciting to reach VFS at 45 mins earlier just to wait for thier bus to take us few blocks away...plus same is a case when you come out from interview, you need to wait sometime in thier bus to go back to vfs.....

- We went in our own car as we are from mumbai only so went strt at 7:45 morning at consl as mentioned and pushed out straight from consl to a mall nearby once she comes out of interview...so no need to wait for vfs bus another half hour....

Well, we didnot use vfs because we were from mumbai and we had outr own vehicle.....but it may be good for someone coming outside mumbai as they are providing some lockers facility too....so I am not saying its not worth...its just that we didnot want to waste abt 30 mins each way to use this facility since we were able to manage on our own!!!!

good luck....

[devblt 0]

A quick update

I just called the NVC today and found out that the AOS has been approved and now just waiting for the DS230 to be approved. I'm hoping that this will happen in the next week or so. It would be good to have everything sent to Mumbai before March so we can get an interview in April.

[lak&ajm 0]

Sounds great! Good luck with getting your interview in April!!

Lori

A quick update

I just called the NVC today and found out that the AOS has been approved and now just waiting for the DS230 to be approved. I'm hoping that this will happen in the next week or so. It would be good to have everything sent to Mumbai before March so we can get an interview in April.

[rizthomson 3]

hello everybody...........

hope everybody is doing fine......congrats devblt..your case will be approved next week...and will reach consulate in the last week or the beginning of the next month....and you will certainly get the interview date in april.....

I have to ask a question guys......

IF its jesus christs will we will be fly to Dallas on 3rd of march......

do anybody have any suggestion regarding things to be brought to be brought to USA for either its not found their or toooo costly compared to INDIA......hope who migrated or and also in the process of that will have some ideas ..........it will help if you share it with us...

riz siby

[devblt 0]

NVC has completed my case.. it'll be on it's way to mumbai shortly!

[lak&ajm 0]

NVC has completed my case.. it'll be on it's way to mumbai shortly!

Congratulations!! Kick up your heels and dance!! Oh...I see you have been doing that already!!

Lori