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H1B Mumbai
Thanks to everyone for sharing your experience. I feel equally important to share mine too.

I had a little complicated case.
I received my petition in early July. Didnt bother to go through it as in any case visa will be valid only from Oct.
Finally in August I started with DS 160 and got a shocker that my name in not correct in passport. My Surname was blank and complete name was written in the Given Name column. It is'nt that big a issue for visa but I was told I might face problems in US when I apply for SSN if their is mismatch in name in my documents and passport.
So I decide to get it corrected but found some new fraud going on with Tatkal passport seva in Pune. I tried for 10 days to get an appointment but didnt get. Dont know if it was some issue with their systems or some new fraud like railway tatkal booking. In normal case it would have taken 45 days so did some jugad and got my passport anyway on 22 Aug.

Finally the interview day. 14th sept. 9 am slot.

reached their by 8.35. Was expecting some crowd as mentioned in most of the posts but it was all clear.
Did some security checks
Had to wait for some 30 mins and got the token
Went inside and got finger scan.
again some 50 mins wait for interview. By 10.30 their were hardly 50 people left and embassy people were announcing if their is anyone left for finger scan. Maybe they were in a weekend mood.
4 couters 26,28, 33 and 34 were processing h1,h4 and b1 and some other counters for other visas for families, specially huge Gujrati crowd. (to my surprise they even had gujrati translators helping VOs for people who didnt knew english)

Most of the VOs were very cool except an Indian VO on counter 28. I heard a lot about him from other people and witnessed personally while waiting for my token to appear. He was a complete--------------

Finally my token number appeared for couter 26.

While I was waiting in queue their was announcement calling Mr. Deepak Parekh at counter number 27. I thought might be some Gujju who did something foolish and they are calling him back. But to my surprise their came a gentlemen in a nice black suit and yellow tie.. he was the HDFC guy DEEPAK PAREKH and that counter was specially opened only for him. I heard his interview and the way he answered really made me feel confident.

Finally it was my turn.

Me: Good Morning sir.
VO: Good Moring.. Give your documents.

Gave him my new passport, form I797 and old passport.(he didnt even bother to see my old passport though i was insisting and didnt wanna hide anything)
VO: How long have you been working with ZZZ
Me: XX months

VO: Your salary in US?
ME: $XX per annnum

VO: Your highest qualification
ME: BE Comp Science

VO: will you work for employer or client
ME: I'll be strictly working for employer at XX location. (this is the most important question. One of my colleague said client by mistake and they rejected his visa as he didnt have invitation letter. think before you speak. They dont give you the option to take your word back on such questions)

VO: Are you married?
ME: No

VO: Any plans to marry?
ME: Yes m engaged and supposed to marry OCT 2013. (I lied)

VO: Your visa is approved and You'll get it by next week.
ME: Thank you.

I had interview at 11 am on friday and by monday afternoon i got my passport back.

Some free advice.
Do check your passports as many of my friends found similar issues after I told my case. Some had spelling error in parents name or incorrect DOB. Now a days TCS is doing a good job with new passports but those who had passports issued more then 2 yr back might have such problem.
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