Most people were visiting Nogales just a week before their India trip and were struck here and have to cancel/postpone their trips. Some people were really in bad shape as they had their own marriages scheduled. Please plan accordingly and be ready for the worst case scenario in case you have no option to skip the appointment at Nogales. Hopefully things will get better soon.
Case 1:
One of the H1-B holder from a big sized company was asked to wait for the PIMS update and after the update has been done, the visa officer asked him to call his company owner. The company owner attempted to talk to the consular officers and conference with their attorney to answer all the questions and provide any documents they needed but they didn't agree for it. Finally, the owner/CEO of the company came to Nogales, Mexico and attended the interview with the consular officer and below are the questions he was asked:
How do you pay the consultant? Why did you send your employee to Nogales for stamping? Why don't you hire Mexicans in your company? How much do you pay your consultant? Checked the following documents - quarterly tax returns, company agreement with the vendor (if not direct client), company pictures and some other company related documents. They recommened not to send employees to Noglaes and to send them to Canada for stamping and finally gave the visa for the H1-B holder.
Case 2: Currently the PIMS is taking around 5 working days and a group of 5 people got their visas after 5 days.
Case 3: One guy was waiting for almost 12 days and finally called the DOS and raised a ticket and also called up the consulate to check the status. As it took even more than the expected 5 to 7 working days, they gave it to him on the same day, ie. 12th day.
Case 4: Couple of guys got their PIMS cleared in 2 business days, but they were put on hold for security clearance which is expected to take any where around 2 to 4 weeks.
Will keep updating the cases as we know. You can post your case here in the comments section and help others.
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