Just wondering if you guys had any input on when I should book Neetu's ticket for... Her interview is the 16th so I was looking at (originally) the 22nd evening - now we're looking more at the 23rd but there's a question as to whether we should be looking at the 24th .... Confusing!!!

The reason for all this thinking is that the VFS office told Neetu that it could take 3-4 business days for her to have the passport ready for pick up. If I'm doing the math right, not counting the day of the interview and not counting the weekend that will follow, aiming at the 23rd allows for 5 business days...

Is that cutting it too close? Loto - I know Fathima is gonna fly over about a week after her interview date so I'm using that same model ...

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

dont book anything till you have visa in hand unless you want to take the risk and pay for changing the ticket dates. I thought everything was perfect in our case and it has now been a month since the interview and still waiting for documents to be varified.

That's why I always think this phase as a gamble

Indianheart , good luck to you for your speedy AP clearance

rajee if i were u i would do it 7 business days after the interview,

be ont he safe side..

indianheart, praying for ur speedy visa approval!

Good Luck Indianheart!

Neetu will be here on July 25th, we ended up booking for the 24th ... Just wanted to be safe and bowed to a little bit of paranoia

Good rajee Good luck to Neetu for her upcoming interview

good luck rajeeee!!!

hope she has a smooth interview!

Loto and Hyd - Thanks ... fingers crossed! (still sucks that her interview WOULD have been in 2 days!)

Rajee,

Good Luck to Neetu for her interview...

Bani

Loto... I always like reading your siggy line... good info! congrats again

and indian heart good luck with AP!!

Rajee I am excied for you both.. let us know how it goes?

good luck for the interview.

i also end up with booking the ticket before the interview

once again best of luck.

Thanks guys!

More news... Since Rajee and Nitshrut are booking airline tickets, prices are going up due to the demand (I don't think it is because of the fuel price increase )

yes, i guess that might be the main reason.

Good luck to your interview soon, Nitshrut

Thanks loto, i m getting little nervous.

Take it easy Nitshrut Don't worry, but hurry to get airline tickets...

my husband bought tickets, its july 29th, so 20 more days to GO,cant wait to see him...

LOTO, how much time do they take for POE at JFK and its eraly morning flight around 7 am, because my husband have only 1 hour between connecting flight from JFK.

Great, great, great !!!

if you know please answer loto....

LOTO, how much time do they take for POE at JFK and its eraly morning flight around 7 am, because my husband have only 1 hour between connecting flight from JFK.

That depends Nitshrut! Where's his check-in luggage collection ? The queue in citizen/permanent resident line is not that bad. There will be a chit-chat with POE officer. Since he/she has to review the sealed envelope, fingerprint capture, photo capture etc. it can take some time - I would say 5 to 10 min. Check-in luggage collection is a time consuming process.

Also, ask him to get out of the flight at JFK as soon as possible after landing, so that he can be the first in the queue.

well i think he has to get his luggage in jfk airport and check-in again for this connected flight to tpa airport

Then 1 hour is not sufficient.