I read an announcement today on the telegram channel if someone books an appointment using an agent it will be considered Fraud and would impact the visa interview and potentially visa. Is this true? How does anyone know if one booked an appointment by an agent 🤔 TC : 200k #workvisa #h1b #visa #stamping
Not sure if its a fraud.. buy JSyr is right, agent will take your credentials to book the slot.
Don’t engage in these kind of fraudulent activities. You maybe banned for life from entering the US. US embassy is always asking to report such agents. And also, many times there are stories where these ‘agents’ have messed up appointments. Don’t take risk. Pretty sure they can track multiple booking and logins from same system for different users.
I would highly recommend not to use agent for visa booking.
Not saying what agents are doing is right, but wtf are people supposed to do? There are literally no visa appointments available.
If source of all these news is happy school then I would suggest to ignore it until someone more credible comes up with info on it.
Booking through an agent is not illegal. In fact many of the tourist packages to US include assistance in booking visa appointments. As long as you don't misrepresent any information in Ds-160, you should be fine
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The agent does not have any special tools - they will book it the same way as you do on the USCIS website. There is no way to know who booked it.
I think they already have booked through their account and update DS-160 and information in that account to yours is what I guess.
US Embassy posted on Twitter they are aware of agents mass booking slots and many of those getting wasted when they are not able to sell them. So some agents have special ways that normal people don’t