Another visa post: Has anybody got their H1B stamped in Canada recently? Don’t want to get stuck there if they don’t approve.

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I did. Took a total of 8 months of planning, thinking, re-thinking, and then some more thinking if I should go ahead and take the gamble of my life. And then around 2.5 min at the embassy for the visa officer to approve the visa stamping

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K1- assuming you went for revalidation and not first time stamping? Did you go before/after your previous stamp was expired?

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