Recent content by Debasis Chakrabarti

Check out your latest H-1 B and your wife's H-4 approval notices. You had to send these for revalidation too. These might have the dates of validity in the top portion. Based upon that the DOS has stamped both of your passports until Feb 2005. If so, then you are in valid status and do not have...

Hands over back to TTS

The original I-94 should be fine...

1. Does she qualify for drop box ? (Her old F2 visa stamp expired 1 year back). Note that since she was outside the USA during my change of status to H1, I could not file a COS to H4 for her. ****She qualifies for the drop-box. Check this out ...

Take all possible documents...see the DOS site for all possible document lists....multipleentry.com actually has an exhaustive list...I guess H-4 to H-1B wouldn't be so different than a new H-1B; Worst case scenario could always be they are not satisifed with the documentation or not in a...

Technically speaking you may breeze through this, without even needing a US degree; many people have done that. But any consulate can give you tough time saying that they are in no position to evaluate you credentials from India and you should visit India to get your visa....and now under the...

It can be done, just remember to have her H-4 extended/transferred before her I-94 date expires... One common problem of having different dates on each spouse's I-94 (from two different employer's) is that they expire on different dates, and as a result the spouse's status fali to get extended...

I think so...you cannot arrange for some other photographs can you? No choice...get those...and hope for the best.

a) 1 year b) Not sure, but L-1?? B-1 would be difficult as you have immigration intent...as the other non-immigration visa categories, which require proof of non-immigration intent..

No you do not need transit visa for KLM....

sorry for replying late... SL SD means St. Louis sent date SL RD similarly means St. Louis received date. The number I called was 202-663-1225 After that option 1, 0 to talk to an officer... it was about a 40 minute hold time...ultimately the lady said wait for another week...before calling...

Do not worry, even they have stamped the same stamp of cancellation without any prejudice over my expired earlier H-1B visa stamp. I did not withdraw my application and just recvd the passports back today with the new stamp. I think this is typical.

Recd passport after stamping. Recd passport after stamping. For all those still waiting, SL SD 02/08/03 SL RD 02/10/03 Visa Stamp date 05/08/03 Mailed back: 05/12/03 Passport recd. 05/13/03 Did not know what the DC date was as the only time I called up on 05/09/03, the lady refused to...

Recd passport after stamping. For all those still waiting, SL SD 02/08/03 SL RD 02/10/03 Visa Stamp date 05/08/03 Mailed back: 05/12/03 Passport recd. 05/13/03 Did not know what the DC date was as the only time I called up on 05/09/03, the lady refused to give out that details telling...

Re: St. Louis RD 2/10/03 Hello Sankaran, Sri99999, Thomman, Chandru2003, Based on your postings..I could guess my case of St. Louis RD 2/10/03 falls in the right time domain as yours. Some of you had already called their DC office to find out that your passports are stamped. Have all/none/any...