Applied e-visa. Website showed 72 hours. Applied a week back. Sent multiple followup emails. Flight today morning. Waiting till morning 7 am and cancelled my flight. Got approval email at 8. Fml😭😭😭😭. Never thought i had to struggle so much to get a visit visa to the country i was born in. Indian givt system needs a hard reset

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Getting a US visa is so easy on the other hand.

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person of indian origin, pio sorry

i don’t have an inferiority complex. was born in america 👍

i don’t think the us should make it easy for indians to get a visa, despite the incident you cited. it’s just economics pure and simple.

and i wouldn’t mind it if india made it harder for me to get a visa. but they never would because they can’t afford it.

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That’s super surprising. I applied on a Saturday night and got the approval mail on Monday morning. It’s usually not that bad.

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I heard it is happening from last 3-4 months.

Same thing happened to a friend of mine. His flight was at 7:30 PM , he got approval email at 8 PM. Had to spend another 2800$ for this BS

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Just for my clarity,Is it because you don’t have OCI?

Yeah I got it in 12 hours. Seems odd

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