H1B and H4 dropbox appointment

[kvishal92]

My wife and I have a Visa appointment (OFC appointment) at Chennai VAC. I am on H1B visa and my wife is on H4 visa.
We are eligible for dropbox appointment. It's been a while since we created the appointment request and don’t recall if we had applied for the interview waiver.

Can you please help answer the below queries regarding the appointment? We would like to get confirmation if the appointment is for visa interview or dropbox.

1. From the appointment confirmation page how do we know that it’s a dropbox appointment?
2. There is only ‘OFC Appointment Details’ section in the appointment confirmation and no ‘Consular Appointment Details’ section. Does this mean its a dropbox appointment?
3. The ‘Visa Priority’ is ‘English’ in the appointment confirmation page. Does this mean interview and not dropbox? I read online that the ‘Visa Priority’ should be ‘Interview Waiver’ for dropbox. Is this correct?
4. The Visa class for my Wife (under 'Family/Group member') is also H-1B. She is on H4. Is this fine? Her DS160 has her correct visa category of H4 visa.
5. If its a visa interview appointment, how to change it to a dropbox appointment?
6. Some information in the DS-160 needs to be updated. How to update the visa appointment with the new DS-160?

 

[srashmitha9710]

My wife and I have a Visa appointment (OFC appointment) at Chennai VAC. I am on H1B visa and my wife is on H4 visa.
We are eligible for dropbox appointment. It's been a while since we created the appointment request and don’t recall if we had applied for the interview waiver.

Can you please help answer the below queries regarding the appointment? We would like to get confirmation if the appointment is for visa interview or dropbox.

1. From the appointment confirmation page how do we know that it’s a dropbox appointment?
2. There is only ‘OFC Appointment Details’ section in the appointment confirmation and no ‘Consular Appointment Details’ section. Does this mean its a dropbox appointment?
3. The ‘Visa Priority’ is ‘English’ in the appointment confirmation page. Does this mean interview and not dropbox? I read online that the ‘Visa Priority’ should be ‘Interview Waiver’ for dropbox. Is this correct?
4. The Visa class for my Wife (under 'Family/Group member') is also H-1B. She is on H4. Is this fine? Her DS160 has her correct visa category of H4 visa.
5. If its a visa interview appointment, how to change it to a dropbox appointment?
6. Some information in the DS-160 needs to be updated. How to update the visa appointment with the new DS-160?

Hi, I have a similar situation where my appointment letter shows OFC but I have an interview waiver appt type. Can you let me know if you had to go to Chennai and give your biometrics or could you just drop off documents from anywhere?

 

[msdeepikap]

My wife and I have a Visa appointment (OFC appointment) at Chennai VAC. I am on H1B visa and my wife is on H4 visa.
We are eligible for dropbox appointment. It's been a while since we created the appointment request and don’t recall if we had applied for the interview waiver.

Can you please help answer the below queries regarding the appointment? We would like to get confirmation if the appointment is for visa interview or dropbox.

1. From the appointment confirmation page how do we know that it’s a dropbox appointment?
2. There is only ‘OFC Appointment Details’ section in the appointment confirmation and no ‘Consular Appointment Details’ section. Does this mean its a dropbox appointment?
3. The ‘Visa Priority’ is ‘English’ in the appointment confirmation page. Does this mean interview and not dropbox? I read online that the ‘Visa Priority’ should be ‘Interview Waiver’ for dropbox. Is this correct?
4. The Visa class for my Wife (under 'Family/Group member') is also H-1B. She is on H4. Is this fine? Her DS160 has her correct visa category of H4 visa.
5. If its a visa interview appointment, how to change it to a dropbox appointment?
6. Some information in the DS-160 needs to be updated. How to update the visa appointment with the new DS-160?

Hi, did you go for interview? Even we have booked appointment and our ds160s have correct information. But the visa appointment confirmation page shows h1b visa category for me instead of h4. My husband is on h1b. We don’t want to cancel our appointment.