If any of you have contacts of a good agent who got you a stamping appointment in India, can you please share. Am not eligible for dropbox(passport got stolen), have a new passport. Am also considering Dubai or Bangkok, if you have any experience in consulates there please do share. YOE: 17, TC: ~600K #workvisa #h1b
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Thanks!
Looking for the same.. there isn't anyone reliable honestly.. I am looking for b1/b2
If you have old and new passport are you eligible for Dropbox ?
Stop it. You are contributing to an activity which can potentially make every H1B holders life miserable.
They do it out of desperation. We need to show them hope and a way. I have posted above detailed steps from my experience
If you have patience and can afford to wait to get appointment, do the following (based on my personal experience): 1. Repeat after me - "F*** those agents. They don't deserve a rupee from us, may they never get to spend anything from that money of desperation" 2. Every day, login to cgifederal site 2 times, one just after midnight IST (afternoon in most timezones in US) and 2nd time around 9 am IST. These 2 time-frames are when slots gets released most likely 3. The cgifederal site has lot of checks to avoid multiple tries/DDOS. Do not login more than twice per day, you will get locked for 24 hours. If you get locked 3 times in a row, your id will be banned and you'd need to register again. Do not lose precious days getting into all that, be disciplined. 4. Once you login, go to the appointment page (assuming you paid the fees), and click each location once and see if there are appointments. Don't get stressed, expect no appointments as the normal. In the rare case you see an appointment, think quickly if you can make that date work and if yes go forward and book it. If you get an error page, just hit refresh (f5) and the request will go through. Their website is a simple asp site so it doesn't have authtoken checks etc so refresh works instead of going back to login and going through all the screens again. 5. If you got an appointment in #4 that's the end of your appt process. Hurray! now book your tickets. But if you have more time or want to continue and look for a better appointment repeat step 1 to 4. Atleast at this point you have 1 appointment so this part will be much less stressful. 6. Pro tips - join telegram groups for visa appointment , where people crowdsource appt availability. People login to cgifederal and post how many appointments are available every minute. Those groups can get constant pings and having that realtime updates is advantage for you, so keep notifications on and bear with the pings throughout the day. I was able to get my appointment due to telegram group only, one fine morning 6 am my phone started buzzing with pings and people posting that appointments are available and I was able to quickly login and book one for myself.. Do not think getting appointment is impossible. Just needs patience. Don't pay hard earned money to those opportunistic fraud agents running bots.
I can make this only in June/July. Considering my family's schedule, no other month is possible. I live in CA. What would be the month they release slots for J&J.
No one can give a accurate estimate when slots will be released for a certain month. It's a total black box. That's why it's important to be consistently looking for slots. Every day 15 mins for this, make it your routine and you will get it. Important thing is patience and consistency. There will also be times you saw an appointment but you weren't able to book it, absorb all that as things to expect and remain calm and be consistent.
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Why are there agents for visa appointments? IRCTC bana diya hai
Yes, US embassy appointment has become like IRCTC booking. I think it is 50k for one appointment. We have to build that into ticket cost.
Ya it sucks... Family of 2 will cost more than a lakh INR just to get appointment. This is robbery in broad daylight and people are willingly paying it also out of desperation.