SRama

Congrats for the date...

Will surely share the experience..

Hello Ansu Binu,

share your interview experiance.

Takecare

Hello Ansubinu,

Congratulations for your visa approval.

Just I can figure out from your profile.

Could you please share your interview experiences?

What are the question they asked in Chennai consulate?

Can we pick up the passport-visa same day evening or next day

from the VFS office?

Thank you,

Hi SRama,

Congratulations on the interview date!!!

Where is your interview and what time? Because we have the same interview date. My wife's interview is on January 19, 2010 at 7:30 AM at Mumbai Embassy.

Interview will be in Chennai Consulate at 8AM

Hello All,

My case was completed NOV 27

Inteview on Jan, 19 2010.

takecare

Consulate: Chennai

our Interview Date: 01/19/2010

Please post whoever the chennai cosnulate and their experiances.

Thanks

Hello RAj,

I am with the chennai consulate.

Just I submitted the DS230-RFE for original Birth,Marriage & Passport PCC.

I am waiting for case complate...

so you are before me. I think you will get the interview on Jan'01, becasue the Dec'09 interview list came out already.

please share your experiance once you done with inteview...

Takecare

Anyone has their interview scheduled on December 2009 at chennai embassy.. ?

Hello Ansubinu,

What is your interview letter say. What are the documents need to take during the interview.

I think you need to go to VFS office before 10 days of the interview date.

What about the medical exam look like there is a new Appllo heart center lab for medicam exam...

could you please explain in deatail...

Anyone has their interview scheduled on December 2009 at chennai embassy.. ?

Hello,

My DS230 received by NVC on 10/23, so I am waiting for case complete and interview app. in chennai.

It seems you got the end of Dec. Most probabily I will get it in next Jan 2010!

Good luck

Hello friends....its been painful and long jounrney getting here....but I have a great news for ya all...its Login Fail....will update soon with other info....and all of u waiting for the same u got my heart...love ya all...

Congratulations!

Could you share with us , which US consulate in India.

Takecare

Once you get your interview letter from NVC by email there will be a checklist in there in which you will have to go to VFS and submit the required documents to them. For us it was the Passport PCC. We will also be submitting the medical report there as well. You will go there 10 days before interview and submit the required documents and pay the courier fee.

Thank you very much for your reply.

Please post the Interview Q and experiance here once you done.

Good luck

gundas and other indian consulate folks,

Congratulations! to your interview. Which is your consulate in india?

ours is progressing,stiil at NVC and it will be at Chennai consulate.

I am confused below instruction that I got it from indian consulate site. Could you please clarify this.

"Before coming for your visa interview the following documents should be presented at your nearest VFS office.VFS will give you a receipt for all documents left with it.At the time you present your documents you must also pay courier fee Rs.387/- per applicant, by cash.

All documents must be presented at your nearest VFS office.

No later then 15 working days and No less then 10 days prior to you interview date.

Thanks

Ok, now I'm genuinely confused.

My wife's passport is in her maiden name. All of the paperwork I've submitted--birth certificate, marriage certificate, passport bio--has all been in her maiden name. However, we both want her last name to be changed to mine when she arrives in America, hence when I filled out her information, I used my last name, and listed her maiden name as an alternate name. All of the information I read suggested this was fine.

Now I'm hearing that this will cause problems for her visa? I already sent off my DS-230 packet; what do I need to do to get her greencard issued with her married name, and not her maiden? Is this going to spark an RFE?

You have to have her passport changed... She goes through her country's system to get a new passport issued with her married name (if that is the name you wish to use when entering the USA)... The visa will be issued for her in her married name, she MUST have a passport that matches that name!!! Also, if her passport does not match the name she is using for the airline, then she cannot fly... You have to ACTUALLY change her name in her country before they will issue official documents in another name...

So there is no confusion... YOU WIFE MUST OFFICIALLY CHANGE HER NAME AND HAVE HER PASSPORT ISSUED IN THAT NAME...

Agreed!!!! You shouldn't have put your last name on the application if it wasn't her LEGAL name. NVC wants you to use legal name for application. Putting down your last name if it hadn't been changed will cause problems since passport will show maiden name and application shows married name (but not legally changed)