My sibling is getting married end of this year back home in India. Been trying for a visa slot for months now and still haven't gotten any. Every single day I am trying. Subscribed to telegram group, private Whatsapp groups etc.. Today they open slots for 2023... :( Madness. Worked in the US for close to a decade. Never saw it this bad.
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true. i’m an indian, living on a visa, at the whims of the US gov. I have no self respect but it’s better than living in India.
What is the situation of L1B visas?
I got my stamping in Ottawa canada in 4days! Getting Canadian travel visa takes like 15-20days. I got stamping done three weeks ago.
Dm me for an agent, I and my friends got 5 slots from him.
Modern slavery of indians by Americans! Hated it and thus moved to India later to NL
So you're in the Netherlands? How does it compare to Canada?
It's not slavery because no one is forcing you to immigrate to the US (or the Netherlands). India's immigration laws are much stricter than the US because it is actually trying to protect jobs for Indian citizens (as it should). It is going to be interesting to see if the looming 3-5 year recession will hamper immigration efforts by some of the offending companies, in particular the WITCH consultancies.
This might help you Checkvisaslots.com
Outside of these agent tricks, which aren't guaranteed to work, anyone in US on a visa is stuck here. Canada has huge lines, MX doesn't allow non MX folks to renew. Folks are asking for other consulates for the same reason. Indian consulates are way more terrible. They have already said they have no slots till the end of the year. Effectively, for those on visa, at this point you can leave but you can't come back even though for many they have been in this country for a decade. Also note that this situation will only get worse as years pass by (outside a few hundred thousands who got GC due to pandemic), due to discriminatory per country caps as only more people will continue to be on temporary state and even if 10%= 100k among the million want to travel, Indian consulates can't handle that load without drastic increase in capacity. A million people roughly (mostly from India) continue to live temporary because of an immutable characteristic (country of birth). Many of them can never get GC (or anything more permanent) because they were born in the wrong country. The wait is 100+ years at this point for a new applicant which is effectively denial based on an immutable characteristic. Unless this is fixed, the visa stamping backlog will grow, more kids will keep aging out, temp workers will not change jobs more often and depress wages. The list goes on and on.
Wow, that's a great point. Never realized this was tied to the visa backlog. But this makes sense. Initial H1s are by lottery, but GC is quota by country of birth (and fixed quota). What can we as immigrants do? Just leave and go back to India or an EU country I guess..??
Many of us are flying to DC in the coming weeks to push to move a legislation to fix the issue. There is a bill called eagle act, which passed the house and Senate last year but didn't get back to the house in time to reconcile. Oh yes, the folks heading to the hill are like you. they are immigrants and are in the backlog. There is nothing special about them. They also have families and also have a job and are flying with their own money to help fix the issue. They have their 1st amendment like you and can advocate. Advocacy is hard - but it's the only thing that can solve this group of problems. Everything else is mostly shifting the decks on a sinking ship. It will do nothing. There are always people who will say it won't pass and based on history they have been right. However, the same folks said it won't pass the Senate, let alone get all 100 senators to agree, but it did. It didn't pass out of fluke. It passed because a lot of folks (like you) didn't give up and continued to make progress. Many of us drove to town halls, attended events and pushed folks to see the humans behind the backlog. Also note, before participating in this advocacy, I have never been to one in my life for any other issue. So if you feel you have never done, you aren't alone. The key is interest in solving the issue and not "hope" someone else will carry your luggage. When the bill passes at some point, you will definitely benefit, but the best way you can help is *before* the bill passes house and Senate, not after (at which point there would be enough mass to get it across the finish line). Your second best way is to donate, but volunteering, following action items and advocating for your situation is the best way. Whether you choose to stay or leave is a deeply personal decision. But it should be your decision, not one at the whim of a visa officer every time your paper goes through for renewal. Staying temporary like this will wreck a lot of things you have taken for granted in your life. Sharing this from a decade of wait.
Thank you for the post OP. I got a slot for this year in HYD after reading this
I was thinking the same. Like if this fuckery was going for usa citizens , it would have blown so much but again we are slave to money.
I used an agent and he booked the date I requested. Please DM for details
Dm'd you
Can you DM me also please , don’t have enough B money