CPfromIndia
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Everybody,
We had a successful CP today at Chennai. I feel more than anybody else, this forum deserves all the thanks I can give for preparing me for the whole process.
A brief description : I moved tothe Indian branch of my company in 1999, but the CP process continued. I had a child in India, who was with us today.
What I observed today :
- everybody waits in the AC room (thankfully)
- everybody is made to wait till 8am, then everybody forms a queue to submit the documents. once done, u go to another window to pay the initial drafts. then, you wait for the interviews to start. as you can imagine, this means that the scrutiny of documents can be more stringent as they do it \'offline\'. the first person to be called for interview was at around 9.15 am!
- the order for the interview was definitely LIFO. This is very unfair to the early birds, but I guess the consulate people are not bothered to turn the list of submissions upside down to be \'fair\' to anybody.
- we were the 6th emp-based grp to be called (one window just for emp-based), at around 10.20 and were done in 12 minutes. i had followed the order of documents very rigidly, and had been more than generous in providing all needed/unneeded docs (he returned many), so he justasked \'which company\', and even jotted it on the folder that i was in india with the same company that had the GC application. The gentleman was indian, of average height, and very proper in his approach and talk. I had an inquiry about our baby-to-be and he gave precise instructions to follow later.
- unfortunately, one of the earlier E3 candidates was rejected. he was given his passport back. i was right after him, so could not get to ask him what happened, but he was desperately searching his documents for something. he had not managed to be methodical with his documents, but i am sure that was not the reason. I hope it was just a case of missing document that he can get tomorrow or something. I wonder what happens to his application fee (for 3 people)...
- there is a \'canteen\' to buy tea, biscuits, cold-drink etc, and these are allowed inside the AC room. there is a toilet that is not dirty. the guards, etc, are pretty friendly and courteous.
- for all the warnings, i still saw many people trying to get in with briefcases! even i had my cell-phone, but could nip back to my rental car to keep it there.
thats all i can think of now. i am available to answer any questions.
Best of luck to everybody in the pipeline!
We had a successful CP today at Chennai. I feel more than anybody else, this forum deserves all the thanks I can give for preparing me for the whole process.
A brief description : I moved tothe Indian branch of my company in 1999, but the CP process continued. I had a child in India, who was with us today.
What I observed today :
- everybody waits in the AC room (thankfully)
- everybody is made to wait till 8am, then everybody forms a queue to submit the documents. once done, u go to another window to pay the initial drafts. then, you wait for the interviews to start. as you can imagine, this means that the scrutiny of documents can be more stringent as they do it \'offline\'. the first person to be called for interview was at around 9.15 am!
- the order for the interview was definitely LIFO. This is very unfair to the early birds, but I guess the consulate people are not bothered to turn the list of submissions upside down to be \'fair\' to anybody.
- we were the 6th emp-based grp to be called (one window just for emp-based), at around 10.20 and were done in 12 minutes. i had followed the order of documents very rigidly, and had been more than generous in providing all needed/unneeded docs (he returned many), so he justasked \'which company\', and even jotted it on the folder that i was in india with the same company that had the GC application. The gentleman was indian, of average height, and very proper in his approach and talk. I had an inquiry about our baby-to-be and he gave precise instructions to follow later.
- unfortunately, one of the earlier E3 candidates was rejected. he was given his passport back. i was right after him, so could not get to ask him what happened, but he was desperately searching his documents for something. he had not managed to be methodical with his documents, but i am sure that was not the reason. I hope it was just a case of missing document that he can get tomorrow or something. I wonder what happens to his application fee (for 3 people)...
- there is a \'canteen\' to buy tea, biscuits, cold-drink etc, and these are allowed inside the AC room. there is a toilet that is not dirty. the guards, etc, are pretty friendly and courteous.
- for all the warnings, i still saw many people trying to get in with briefcases! even i had my cell-phone, but could nip back to my rental car to keep it there.
thats all i can think of now. i am available to answer any questions.
Best of luck to everybody in the pipeline!