question about which visa office to select please help

[vanwilder]

Dear friends,

I have confusion about what visa office to select . Please help. my situation is I have completed collecting all the documents in order to file sponsorship application to sponsor my wife. my wife is in student visa in U.S.A. she is in her home country right now but returning to U.S.A next month. now should i select buffalo as visa office or should i select visa office of home country which would be new delhi. Any idea? to my knowledge new delhi is faster than buffalo. will there be any problem if we select new delhi as visa office while the principal applicant is actually living in USA.

 

[Isometry]

If she's a citizen of India, Bhutan, or Nepal, she can select New Delhi even while living in the US.

Keep in mind that if an interview is required, she will need to go to the visa office that's processing her application.

 

[PMM]

Hi

If she's a citizen of India, Bhutan, or Nepal, she can select New Delhi even while living in the US.

Keep in mind that if an interview is required, she will need to go to the visa office that's processing her application.

Plus she will have to figure out a way to get her passport back and forth to ND as it is illegal to mail/courier passports in/out of India.

 

[vanwilder]

Thanks a lot folks. I very much appreciate it. I am thinking to use New delhi as visa processing office as new delhi is faster than buffalo. my concern is.

1. what are the chances of being called for the interview in spousal sponsorship program?
2. PMM mentioned its illegal to mail/courier passport in and out of india and need to figure out a way. I wonder how would applicants from Nepal and Bhutan send their passports.I am using a consultant that has office in canada and home country. will there still be any problem? please advice me. thank you so much again.

 

[canadianwoman]

We've had people on the forum who had trouble applying through New Delhi while living in the USA. You have to send your passport early in processing to the New Delhi office, so 1. she will have no passport if she is called for an interview 2. it is illegal to mail or courier Indian passports, as mentioned above. Now of course people have mailed them, and just hoped no one found out. She could mail it to someone in India who could then deliver it.
As long as you are sure she will be in the USA for the whole processing time (because if her USA visa expires and she is back in India and they call her for an interview in Buffalo, she may not be able to get back in), I would apply through Buffalo.