Once the fee is paid, you need to collect your passport with new H1B visa stamped the next day at 3 PM. The attending Visa officer will tell you to go to a particular counter to pay a reciprocity fee.ħ. Present the documents asked for, and answer questions posed by the Visa officer confidently.ħ. Carry all the relevant paperwork along with cash in US dollars, just in case you wanna pay fees by cash.Ħ. Do not carry any electronic items (car remote, camera, etc) and food/liquid.ĥ. On the appointment date, be atleast 1 hour ahead of your appointment time.Ĥ. (I didn't have to do this since I hold Canadian Green Card.)ģ. Get a Canadian visa to make your trip to Canada. First of all, you need to fix a Visa Stamping appointment via 2.
Lemme share my H1B Visa stamping in Vancouver, BC in July 2006:ġ. Is this a standard process? Will they allow in-person pick up the same day? I do not have luxary to wait 3-5 days to get my stamped passport via mail. In person pick up will be available only in a legitimate emergency (as determined by the Consulate). "Passports and visas will be returned to the applicants with Canadian addresses by Canada Post, generally within three to five business days after the visa is approved. It will be a great help.Īlso, I found this on Vancouver consolate website: Has anyone gone to Vancouver for H1B stamping? Please share your experience and any pointers.
That means they do not have any applications that were not processed before July 11th based on current visa bulletin Priority dates. I guess they are.they are atleast processing them :), whether or not they will honor such filings I dont know. If indeed people did continue to file their papers even after July 2nd (and some did), then may be they are processing those (relatively) few applications. It implies that they are processing a case that was filed/receipted on July 11th !! Whereas as per the Visa bulletin they should not be processing any case that was filed when PDs were not current during that brief time slot (2nd - 17th of july). So how can the processing date be July 11th !! As per my understanding, due to the Jfiasco, Visa dates were unavailable for ALL chargeability areas between July 2nd - July 17th 2007 (i.e until USCIS temporarily made relaxation after protests from IV et al.
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