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Got the Email!!! Hi Everyone, Just wanted to update everyone that my friend got an email from the Mumbai Consulate today,asking him to come to the VFS office for his stamping. His interview was on jan 8th and now its Feb 21st. Not bad. Good luck to everyone else!

Thanks Hi, Thanks for the reply. We were just freaking out because we didn't know the timreframe. I hope it doesn't take more than 6 weeks. I've heard horror stories about situations where people have been waiting for over a year. But those were all H-1 visas. Lets hope for the best...

Anyone?:(

My friend is on the 221g pending status for the spring semester,which has already started. In the meantime, he decided to apply to other schools for the fall semester too, since he doesn't know how long the "administrative" prodecure is going to take. From all the research that he has done so...

Thanks for the reply. I guess we will just have to wait it out.

Hi, My best friend went to the US Consulate in Mumbai. He applied for a Phd and got accepted to a good school. His school starts on the 14th of Jan. He just had his interview on Jan. 8th. He got a 221g, "pending visa" status. They gave him back his passport and said that since his name was so...