intezar_imtehan
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Congrats Ghat.
pad80 said:Hi All ,
First of All thanks for everybody's help in this forum ,
Lab exams went well at Lister Labs and Dr V is excellnt docto, smiling and nice person ,
Reached the cousulat at 7.45 am as i had appointment at 8 .00 am , we were called at 9.50 am , by consullar officer , just general questions and was thu . Jot my Passport stamped and valid for 6 months
Thanks Once again for everybody's help
Thanks
There's no guarantee that it will automatically happen.snm65 said:Does anybody know how long it takes to receive the SSN from the date of entry after CP?
Or Should one go to the local SSN office to obtain the number for dependents even though one has opted to receive a number during CP interview?
rrajendr said:Hi
I just saw that retrogression has happened from Jan 05 and it seems to have large impact on the CP interview scheduling. Based on my knowledge Consulate will schedule an interview only when the priority date is current. Based on this I have the following quesitons could someone please answer it.
Based on my priority date of 7/03 for an Indian citizen on an EB3 Employment based category, when do you think I might get an interview at Chennai, India? Has anyone in EB3, with priority dates past(ie after 4/02) what is posted in the bulletin got any interview calls recently. I am trying to speculate the interview date and accordingly planning on getting the PCC.
skater said:Sorry for this late update but I just got back to the US last night.
General advice before I relate my experience
- if you aren't from Chennai, try and schedule your medicals on the same day (Lister + Dr) and if possible just the day before your appt. Otherwise, you'll end up wasting a lot of time sitting around in Chennai unless you plan to do sight seeing (like Mahabalipuram ...).
- auto drivers in Chennai are complete rogues; don't ever trust the meter and always fully negotiate the price before getting into one.
- Wear very comfortable clothing (cottons); the heat+humidity can be bothersome if you aren't from Miami
Went for medical tests to Lister labs at around 10am and collected the results later that evening. The place is a little disorganized (in my opinion) - the reports were slowly trickling in around 6pm and I finally got mine around 6:30pm. I had the appt. at Padma Nursing home the following noon, so I was okay with the delay. Dr. V hardly checked anything - she had some of the forms half done and just filled in the details from the reports I brought in. Gave me Varicella (chicken pox) and MMR vaccines - I could've simply avoided vaccinations if I had said that I had chicken pox when I was a kid.
Went to the consulate on 18th morning around 8:45pm and was able to get in without standing in line though I had to show my appt letter to 3 guards! After going thro' all the security gates, the very first set of counters are for the IV seekers. Waited for about 25 minutes before an Indian man called me and asked for my papers. He was quite friendly and just asked general questions like how long I had been working in my current job. He gave back all paperwork that he didn't need though my lawyers had included it in my application. Had to then wait another 15 minutes before an American officer called me - looks like he went to Berkeley, so he chatted with me about the bay area. Interestingly, both he and the Indian guy commented on why I was still single
The American officer said everything looked in order and he'd approve my papers but he asked me to go sit and wait till he finished some checks on the computer. About 5-10 minutes later he called me back and said that he couldn't find my H-1B visa in my passport. Once I showed him my H-1B extension paper work (my 6 years expired a while ago), he was happy and didn't even want photocopies.
I was out by 11:45am and returned back to B'lore the same night. All my papers arrived the following day by 10:30am!
The PoE in SFO was fairly painless - just a lot of waiting while the officer took care of finger printing everyone in line even though I was at his counter waiting! The only disconcerting thing was that the officer said it would take upto 8 months for the plastic card to arrive
The only endorsement on the visa in the "admitted" stamp - I am assuming that this is enough for a year.