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H1B & H4 stamping at US Consulate Hyderabad
Hi All,

This site has definitely helped me and would like to share my experience.

VFS Fingerprint date: September 4th 2018
Visa Interview : Septemeber 5th 2018

During the interview was general questions about my employer, work and pay. Then he asked my wife how long have we been married and where we live. He typed all the information and told he could not locate my file in the database so VO returned the Passport and told to visit another window. There was Indian lady at that window and she took passport looked into the computer and went back. After few mins she came back with copy of my I-797 and told to return to same window. VO asked about my employer and informed they need do additional processing before and returned the Passport.

Based on the conversation with our immigration attorney at my company i found that there was USCIS NOIR issued on my case during the site visit done in May last week of 2018. During the visit in May 2018 i did meet the site inspection officer and he reviewed all the documents and finally he found that name of the company listed in my pack check was different from the filing. He informed he will reach out to HR to get the clarification, by the time my HR responded USCIS sent NOIR notice due to name difference in pay check and filing. Lawyer responded in first week of August and i was not informed about the NOIR. I came for visa interview and was issued admin processing. Finally on November 30th USCIS re-affirmed my application, i kept sending my re-affirmation notice to consulate and didnt had any luck.

CEAC First Update: 05th Sept 18 (Interview day)
CEAC Second update: 10th Sept 18
CEAC Third Update: 20th Nov 18

Finally after couple emails i received call from HYDFPU to send the reaffirmation notice to HYDFPU department. Hyderabad consulate reached to my employer on 03/22 through DOS, employer responded on 03/28.

Finally got an email to submit passport on 04/22 at 10am,
Ceac updated 04/23 to AP
Ceac updated 04/25 - 04/26 Status changed to Application received
CEAC updated 05/03, 05/09, 05/10, 05/13, 05/14 to AP (Dates kept changing)
CEAC updated for H4 with issued status on 05/14 around 1pm
CEAC update 05/15 Finally H1B (my application) Changed to Issued around 1pm

Around 12:30pm on 05/16 got email stating the PP is been delivered at Hyderabad VFS and picked my Passport along with dependent on 05/17.

Sorry it was long story, but want to add the experience so i will help others in future. One thing i will definitely advice is please check you H1b status on USCIS site before making your travel arrangement, most of the time we may not be aware of NOIR or any RFE sent to our application which are happening a lot lately.

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