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F1 visa renewal
I'm a bit late to post details of my experience since I got immersed in work as soon as I returned to the US. However, in case it helps, please find the details below:
Consulate: Kolkata, India
Visa type: F1 renewal; had received pink slip the first time at Delhi consulate, which had taken 6 weeks to resolve
Interview date for renewal: 29th December 2017--was issued pink slip again, consulate didn't keep my passport
Required documents (publications list, CV and summary of past, & present research); sent on 30th December 2017.
First status change: January 4th 2018, still said 'Administrative Processing'
Email received from consulate: 23rd January 2018; asking me to submit my passport for 'final visa processing'.
Second status change: 24th January 2018, still said 'Administrative Processing'
Submitted passport: 29th January 2018
Final status change: 1st February 2018, 'Issued'
On 2nd February I received a text message from the consulate asking me to pick up my passport, which I did on the same day.
During my 3.5 weeks of waiting with no news I did a lot of searching on the internet from other people's cases. My understanding is that in general, renewal for F1 visas for students not working on research topics on TAL takes between 2-4 weeks. Although I have also heard of cases where students on TAL were not given a pink slip at all or their processing took the standard 2-4 weeks. However pretty much all cases that I have read about that took more than a month (in some cases 2-3 months) were TAL cases.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if anyone has any questions.
Consulate: Kolkata, India
Visa type: F1 renewal; had received pink slip the first time at Delhi consulate, which had taken 6 weeks to resolve
Interview date for renewal: 29th December 2017--was issued pink slip again, consulate didn't keep my passport
Required documents (publications list, CV and summary of past, & present research); sent on 30th December 2017.
First status change: January 4th 2018, still said 'Administrative Processing'
Email received from consulate: 23rd January 2018; asking me to submit my passport for 'final visa processing'.
Second status change: 24th January 2018, still said 'Administrative Processing'
Submitted passport: 29th January 2018
Final status change: 1st February 2018, 'Issued'
On 2nd February I received a text message from the consulate asking me to pick up my passport, which I did on the same day.
During my 3.5 weeks of waiting with no news I did a lot of searching on the internet from other people's cases. My understanding is that in general, renewal for F1 visas for students not working on research topics on TAL takes between 2-4 weeks. Although I have also heard of cases where students on TAL were not given a pink slip at all or their processing took the standard 2-4 weeks. However pretty much all cases that I have read about that took more than a month (in some cases 2-3 months) were TAL cases.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if anyone has any questions.
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