Visitor Visa - B2

Hello all - My parents had attended the interview for a visitor's visa at chennai consulate in dec 06. It was a lady VO officer. The VO took the DS forms from my parents..

VO: what do you do?
P: Both of us are professors

VO: what is your highest qualification
P: Phd for both

VO: How many papers have you published till now and when was your recent publication?
P: answered

The VO officer did not look at any other documents but gave the 221g form asking for further information about their research activities, publications etc. They did not hold back any documents but just put an "Application received" stamp in both the passports. We sent all the required information in the form of a text document (via email) on January 4, 07 and received acknowledgement from the consulate. On January 10 both of my parents got emails saying that the administrative processing is complete and they need to send their passports, dsforms and the hardcopy of the email. They sent these through the vfs guys on Jan 17,07 and received the passports today with visas stamped for 10 years....We are happy that the process did not take too long..Lucky enough i guess.

Thanks to all of you for all the information on this website...