H1B, H4 Visa

Hello guys, i am sharing my H1-B visa stamping experience which held in chennai US Consulate.

My appoint was scheduled at 11:30 AM 31st Dec and BIO metric was on 30th Dec at 4:30PM.

BIO metric experience:-
I went at around 4:00 PM and I could see the queue for 3:30 slot and 4 PM slot. I thought it might get late for us, but i got a chance to enter at around 5Pm and the whole process was done in say 15 mins.

You can take mobile phones and wallet to this office, only thing is that you need to switch off your mobiles after entering the building premises.
Imp Point :- After taking the bio metric and photo, the guy in the counter asked to carry 2 passport size photographs as there is some problem in the system and he is not able to upload. This is ridiculous, as they have
clearly mentioned that photo will be taken at ASE, on the safer side i had carried the photographs after reading some of the blogs here, else I would have struggled to get the photographs in a different city.

Key points :- Do carry passport size photographs on the safer side, they should be of specification as mentioned in the website.

And the Big day arrived.. Dec 31st Visa interview day.

I went to the consulate office at around 11 and i could see very long queues...

Once we entered the building after the security checks and all we were asked to give the bio metric once again and also they scanned our photographs.

Then It was my turn... here is the conversation ....

VO :- Which company you are going to work for
Me :- YYYY company sir

VO :- Typed something in the system... Is it new company?
Me :- No,its established in 2006

VO :- How many employees work for that company
Me :- YY s

VO :- Who is your client?
Me :- XXYY

VO :- will you be working at client's location or your employers location.
Me :- My petiotiner's location.

VO :- What will be your salary per annum
Me :- AAA $

VO :- How did you get to know about this job opportunity
Me :- Answered

VO :- Project document please
Me :- Passed it... I had only project plan. Luckily he didn't ask for more.

VO :- I need to take copy of your I-797B as your passport is not attached to the petition.
I guess this is because I had renewed my passport after applying the petition.

VO :- You can consider the visa to be conditionally approved.
He took the photocopy and my new passport and put a rubber band around it and said you will get to know the final status by evening.

VO :- As a non-immegrant you will have certain rights in US.. please go through them.

At the end of the day my status is still “adminstrative processing”. Any body can comment what are the chances