Thanks a lot for your work rendered to the benefit of the students(esp prospective). Your information helped me a lot in enhancing my skills and securing good scores in GRE and Toefl. I scored 1180(v-450 q-730 awa-3). Acads-79% no backlogs(JNTUH). For toefl I was unable to get slot in pro-metric center(at that time not much…
I have a doubt regarding a difference in signatures on Passport & I-20. Could you please help me with that? I received my passport in early 2007 when I was in engineering last year. At that time I had a very simple signature which my passport is bearing now. Later on I changed it for…
We have seen so many comments and complaints from folks who have Visa Rejected. How can USA Visa Officers decide on a person within few minutes or seconds without even looking at documents? I’m sure there several others who wants to know the answer. I was able to find Official Answer (from US Embassy Site)…
Interesting question from a reader about applying to same universities with girl friend. I have seen girl/boy friends applying to same schools, staying together and now they are married. They came from different places, fell in love, lives together. I have scored 1400+ in GRE and my gf has scored 1400 in GRE. My TOEFL…
Hello HSB, Firstly I would like to thank Happy schools blog admin and the members. I have attended my F1 visa interview on 28/10/2011 in Hyderabad Consulate. I was given 221(g) yesterday i.e on 23/11/11 i received my passport stamped. Back Ground and profile: Stream : B.Tech Mechanical Engineering Academic percentage – 73. GRE :…
Status: F1 Visa Approved Venue: Hyderbad consulate Date: 23rd Nov 2011 Appointment Time: 08:00 Semester – Spring 2012 Reached there at 0730 hrs exactly (as i was asked to be there 15 mins before the appointment time ). There was a short queue to which the security guided me. My DS 160 confirmation page was…
On 11/18/11 SEVP broadcast message announcing that Department of State has temporarily halted the issuance of all F, M, and J visas at all U.S. Embassies and Consulates due to communication difficulties between the Consolidated Consular Database and SEVIS. I got access to the following report published in NAFSA. To: All SEVIS Users Date: November…
One Minute F1 Visa after MBBS in India for Spring semester in US Consulate Hyderabad – Shared by Raghav. Note – This is the first time a Doctor (after completing MBBS in India) has shared F1 Visa Interview experience here in the blog. As you may know, options for Indian doctors in US is pretty slim…
Planning to Travel to your home country during holidays from USA? Make sure you don’t require Transit visa in country where you have connecting flights. USA – London – India (you might need Transit Visa) USA – Dubai – India (Transit visa not required at time of this post) Transit Visa – Europe If you…
Holiday travel tips for students traveling to India. I think answering question from Kiran should help other students traveling to India for holidays. I am going to INDIA this december. How many items can I take to india ? I want to take one new laptop, two new cameras and some gifts like shoes, dresses…