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H4 Stamping Experience - Mumbai
Firstly let me say that, I have been following this website and specifically H1/H4 experience page since my wife had to visit India. And it really helped me a lot by reading everyone's experience.

Ok, so now about our story. I am currently on 7th year of H1b so just 20 days ago I got my H1b extension approved till 2020. And my wife is on H4 (with EAD). She had her H4 approval till June 2017. And travel visa on her passport is already expired. She traveled to India in Feb and going to stay there till Apr. Since her travel visa is already expired she had to appear at consulate to get her visa stamped and this is her experience (I am just trying to write as much as I can understand from her).

I got my extension approved while she was in India and just 2 weeks before her appointment. So I had to file up new DS 160 with new H1b. Her dates were 19th for finger prints and 20th for consulate.

On 19th at time of her bio metrics, she gave them new DS 160 and they added it to her application.
On 20th, her time was at 9 AM so she went to consulate about 30-45 min earlier than her schedule. She went to window assigned to her. At that window, VO asked her to provide my I-797 (for new H1b, current H1b and GC), my passport copies and her passport. And VO told her that she is approving visa till June 2017 (based on my current H1b). So apparently new H1b approval didn’t update in their system. But my wife requested if she can get her H4 based on my new approval.
So VO asked her to wait at window and VO went to talk with someone. About 20 min later she came back and asked her to go to another window. At that window another VO was present and he too asked same questions and requested same document. And that VO too told my wife that she can issue her visa till my current H1 validity (again, it was June 2017 for them). But then again, my wife repeated same request and she was told to wait more.
And again after 20-30 min she was called on another window with another VO.. and same process got repeated. Even then she was sent to 4th window.
Finally, at 4th window another VO rechecked all documents and told her that he too is issuing visa till June 2017. And he took copy of my current I797 (valid till June 2017). But she requested him too that if possible she would like to get visa approval based on newer H1b. So after more checking and typing in system, he returned her my current I797 and copied my new I797 and told her that he is approving her visa based on this new I797. And told her that she should get her passport back in 2-3 business days.
And on all 4 windows they almost repeated same question. Questions were like following,
Reasons for travel?
If there is any kids? If they are US citizen or not?
Why I am not traveling with her?
What I do in USA?
Do you work there or not? Are you planning to work once you go back?

For some reasons, we even forgot to include visa page of my passport, which they did ask for. But they didn’t take much issue about it. So all in all, it took about 3 hours and 4 different VOs to finally get visa based on my new I797.

And just after 4 days of her interview, she got her passport back with H4 stamp till 2020. So I think, if your case is strong enough, you should not be worried about getting rejection. Just be confident and answer questions.

I have not followed same QC format, because I didn't had first hand experience. I hope this will help someone who is in kind of same boat as us.
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