Business Visa - B1

VISA went on very smooth, most of the questions similar to what is discussed in this forum.

I gave my interview on Oct 9th and the VO said i will get the passport within a week. It's almost a week now, and still the status in "origination scan", i had booked my tickets for next week, anybody has experiences of delays?

--Arun

Hi,

  I have interview mid next week but my temp travel date is on next monday. How does it affect?

Hi Guys, Please help with your experiences
I attended Visa Interview for B1 in Chennai US consulate at 07.30 AM. The visa got approved then i paid Rs 300 to Bluedart guys in Consulate for the pick up and delivery of my passport. But from last 8 days i am getting the status as 'Origination Scan' and moreover the Call center gives some absurd answer and they also just check what we can access easily. they dont have any additional information.

Guys anyone please let me know , what best i can do in this situation. Thanks a lot in Advance

Nikesh
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Can anyone please provide me number of that bluedart guy

Can someone from Mumbai post there experience of having received the passport back after successful interview.

I had my interview on Wednesday 3rd October and still have no clue about my passport.

There call center is hopeless and equally helpless.

Anyone having appeared for the interview after 3rd October and have received passport back , please post your experiences.

I went for a visa interview on 10th October and I was informed that my visa is approved and need to check with the call center for more information. The call center people are really poor in their skills, they seem to have NO information. They gave me an email address which automatically replies the status of passport and that software sucked the life out of me. Every time i sent a mail, it gave funny replies like picked up, origination scan, in transit with post and no one on the planet earth knows what these terms are but for the software designer. No other country has so many problems of Visa. Only god save people who want to travel to USA.

Hello! Guys,

The New Visa application process is even new for the people dealing with it.
It's so new that, even the people at OFC Centre are not clear about some proceedings.
I mean here that, even they are learning the process.

On trying to get information from the 24x7 IVR helpline . The Customer Support Executive also doesn't know much. To every Question asked he/she says, " Sir! May i put your call On hold?"

I applied for b1 Visa Renewal On 9th Oct. 2012 and
Now [i.e. 12th Oct. 2012] my passport status show is " Your passport is in transit to the Post"
This is very BAD of OFC mumbai. It's been more than 3 working days and still it has not reached the US Consulate.

Hello,

Can soe body help me to get the bar code activated from MRV receipt.
I have been calling VFS last 15 days, but problem still persists

Hello Guys,

I would highly appreciate if you could share any vital tips to clear a US B1 Inetrview,

Thanks!

My interview was at Chennai on 3rd Oct., I started checking my passport status from 5th Oct, it was origination scan. I waited till today and the status still remained same i.e, origination scan. I went to Kolkata OFC today ( I've selected my passport delivery to Kolkata OFC) and found the passport was there from 5th Oct. After i pick up the passport now I can see the status is "Picked up". So if you are tracking your passport and selected pick up from OFC you should visit the OFC if the status showing the confusing "origination scan".

I see some people here are anxious to know the statuses involved in passport tracking.

Here is my experience:
My parents had their visa interview at Chennai Consulate on Oct 9 2012 at 8 a.m
On Oct 9 when I tracked their passports at 7 a.m, the status was " Your passport is still with post."
On Oct 9 when I tracked their passports at 7 p.m, the status was "The current status of your passport is Origination Scan."
On Oct 10 when I tracked their passport at 7 a.m, the status was still "The current status of your passport is Origination Scan."
On Oct 10 when I tracked their passport at 7 p.m, the status was still "The current status of your passport is Origination Scan."
On Oct 11 when I tracked their passport at 7 a.m, the status changed to "The current status of your passport is In Transit From Post."
Before I was about to do my routine check tonight at 7 p.m, my dad got an email saying the passports are ready to be picked up.
Out of curiosity I tracked their passports immediately after he got the email and the status was "The current status of your passport is Ready for Pickup"

Hope this information helps and I sincerely hope you guys get out of this anxious trauma soon!