U.S. Consular Officer(s) in India respond to visa related questions via Facebook Chat on ‘Visa Fridays’

Consular Facebook Chat was introduced by the U.S. Embassy in India on November 21, 2013 and the consular officers respond to visa-related questions on every Friday (https://www.facebook.com/India.usembassy). Applicants / prospective applicant(s) can post his/her question(s) as comments below the timeline post “Welcome to Visa Fridays!”. The visa-related questions are chosen between 11.00 AM and 1.00 PM IST and responded from 2.00 PM IST. By introducing this chat facility many applicants / prospective applicants get an opportunity to interact with the consular officer directly. This is a very thoughtful and useful feature and we encourage our readers to make use of this opportunity to interact with the visa officers directly on certain generic issues.