November - Visa Revalidation Tracking

hi yav
if u have any plans to with draw ur pp dont do that,i heard that it has become very very difficult to get visa in india .
 
US office shut after suspect powder found in Indian passport

A US State Department satellite visa office has been sealed after the discovery of a white powder, suspected to be anthrax, in an Indian passport.

An envelope containing the passport was opened at about 11 am on Thursday in the visa service unit on the seventh floor of a building in Columbia Plaza.

"The powder spilled from between the Indian passport's pages," fire department spokesman Alan Etter said.

Officials sealed off the floor and briefly quarantined about 20 employees while preliminary tests were conducted on
the powder. The tests found that the powder contained protein, leaving open the possibility that it could contain anthrax
spores, Etter said.

The workers were allowed to go home after it was found that they had suffered no ill effects, but the seventh floor remained off limits, he added.

The visa office is just one block from the main State Department building.

"There is no reason at all to believe that this is anything sinister," Etter said.

A State Department spokesman, Lou Fintor, said the office processes visas for validation and renewal. He said it was not unusual for the office to receive passports by mail.

Fintor said he did not expect operations to be disrupted significantly and the office's staff would return to work soon.

The FBI is having the powder tested by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weterman said initial field tests often produce 'false positives.'
 
Ur dates

Hi aakarsh,
Could you please give us SL and DC dates. Also when u called did you asked what date they r processing?

Thank you
 
Dec 8th

I looked that ur Dc date is 12/08/2003.. Are they still processing Dec 8th as We saw some of us with Dec 8th was approved even last week....
Did u ask for what dates tehy r processing?

I also have a plan in March and my DC date is Dec 31, 2003.

Thank you
 
hi kalse_2000
i called them today lady in dc office refused to give me any information,i didn't ask them regarding the current processing date .
 
Info

aakarsh,
I read one of ur comments that said that your visa just approved yesterday? How did u get that information.

Thank you
 
hi
i called dc office the lady checked and told my visa is not yet stamped and might be done next week :mad: i am very upset
i have to travel to india before 27thfeb
 
hi kalse_2000
i called dc office and told the lady that i have sent my pp for visa revali... and its more than 31/2 months, i am very worried about it
,can u pls check my status .then she asked my pp#and checked.
 
Hi guys,
When I call them up I would say..."I have sent my application more than 3.5 months" and then would add "I would like to know if my application was received in the their office or not" (though I know they have received it). Whenever I did this I got a positive response. When I said, I want to know the status, I always got that big 'NO'.

Seems like they are still processing Applications from Dec 8th or before.
 
I got my passports on saturday they all are looking good.

For those who are still waiting:

1. When I called them on Friday morning they said, they completed my case on 19th (Thr). They mailedout on 19th afternoon, as I see FedEx picup on 19th 3pm.

2. When I called them in the Fri afternoon (5pm) they said they might have already mailed them out.

3. PPs got printed on Feb 18th - so they seem to be working on 18th (Thr)

Thank you all for the help.
 
Processing Date ?

YAV/ All
When u called on Friday, Did u by chance ask which dates they are processing as 8th Dec was started on Feb 11th from one of guy got his approval on that date.

Thank you
 
Hi kalse_2000
I did not ask them what day they were processing on Friday. But from my previous call ( thursday or before) I learnt that they were processing applications received in the week of Dec 8th '03.

Also she told me it is now taking 12-16 weeks for processing (from SL date, I guess).
 
File not yet open

Hi ,

Just i called up and i find status , they told me file not yet open.
She rejected to said which date is processing.
 
Finally I got to talk to a Visa Specialist after a long wait....I told her that I was instructed by one of the Specialist to call back today when I had called previous. She told me that it was still not 4 months but I insisted that I was told call back today. Finally she asked me for the PP# and name base on which she told me that my Visa was in the PRINT Queue. She did not tell me when it was processed but told me that I should get it in less than 10 days.

St Lious Date -- 20 Nov 03
DC Date -- Dont know
Marital Stauts -- Married
Current Status -- In print Queue
 
App Date

Hi Calva
Could you please tell us which date ur case was approved and printed .. this date should be printed on ur Visa.

Hi raju_dv,
When ever u get ur PP, Please update us ur dc date Approval date.

Thank u
 
Approval - Print time - pickup time

Hello I called today and they said it is approved on friday and it is in print queue.

Does any one know how long it takes to print it. Do they have printer problems?
 
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