Is Mumbai consulate scheduling interviews for IR5 (Parent of a U.S. citizen)

[AlienKanpur]

My sister and her husband have received Interview calls for January 6, 2022. Their DQ date is June 8, 2020. Barely 15 days have been given to arrange everything.

[JMS65]

Parents were DQ on June 26 2020.
Received an email this evening and their interviews are scheduled on January 14th.
Will inform once I make appointments for biometrics and medical exam.

Do they let anyone accompany the elderly parents for the interview?

[mathapitha]

Hey Guys,
question for interview from today's interview.
(1) who is your petitioner?
(2) where is your petitioner living?

(3) how many members in your petitioner family?
(4) what is the age of your grand son or daughter?
(5) what does your petitioner do for living?
(6) where is your petitioner working?
hope this might help you to prepare for interview.
Good luck for coming interview.

thank you for the update. what else did they ask in terms of documents? i mean explicitly during the interview?

[mathapitha]

we have not received the letter in mail yet. how many days from email notification is it taking for the actual physical letter for interview?

[mathapitha]

mathapitha, oh really !
Yes that as a lot of travel for parents, and in such covid times its very risky too, and plus such a short notice.
I have emailed the mumbai consulate, and will call them tomorrow during their office hours. Will update you once I hear back from them.

we moved medical to hyderabad bcos we got biometric in hyderabad. so that saves us 1 trip to chennai...fingers crossed...we get the physical letter soon

[gkd]

Hello everyone,
Just making sure, when we get interview letter we have to schedule biometrics appointment with visa application center using link

https://cgifederal.secure.force.com/?language=English&country=India

Get medical done and should have already police clearance certificate . Are these visa application center only at 5 places in India. We will have visa interview date from NVC so no need to schedule it.

[mathapitha]

thank you for the update. what else did they ask in terms of documents? i mean explicitly during the interview?

also which document from petitioner does the consulate need in original? for eg: tax and support docs are all copies only. but is there anything that we need original?

[gkd]

Hello all,
Does biometrics need to be done days ahead of the interview or you can schedule one day before interview just to avoid flights to different places ? I do not know if this process takes some time for showing biometric clearance?

[JMS65]

we moved medical to hyderabad bcos we got biometric in hyderabad. so that saves us 1 trip to chennai...fingers crossed...we get the physical letter soon

My parents interview is on January 14th. No slots available for biometrics before the 14th. Do you think slots will become available in a few days? What do we do if they don't open up?
Thanks

[JMS65]

Hey Guys,
question for interview from today's interview.
(1) who is your petitioner?
(2) where is your petitioner living?

(3) how many members in your petitioner family?
(4) what is the age of your grand son or daughter?
(5) what does your petitioner do for living?
(6) where is your petitioner working?
hope this might help you to prepare for interview.
Good luck for coming interview.

Do you know if they let a relative accompany older people to the interview?

[gkd]

Do you know if they let a relative accompany older people to the interview?

Applicants may bring ONE person to help if they are elderly, disabled, or a minor child (under age 18).

[JMS65]

Applicants may bring ONE person to help if they are elderly, disabled, or a minor child (under age 18).

Thank you.

[2020IR5]

Hello everyone,

for scheduling biometric appointments for parents IR5 visa category, under step 3 we have to select: Embassy/Consulate Appointments?

[Heer2020]

Finally!!!!

DQ June 2020, received Interview date for January 12, 2022 at Mumbai for both my parents. Now I can't find any VAC appointments in Mumbai or Delhi!
Is this something new that's happening now?

I am able to see couple dates in Kolkata for end of December but that will be very inconvenient for my elderly parents to first go Amritsar to Kolkata for fingerprints and then Mumbai for interview.

Wondering if the dates open up? or there's a way to request appointments based on the interview date.

[JMS65]

mathapitha, oh really !
Yes that as a lot of travel for parents, and in such covid times its very risky too, and plus such a short notice.
I have emailed the mumbai consulate, and will call them tomorrow during their office hours. Will update you once I hear back from them.

Did you manage to get in touch with the Mumbai consulate and what did they say?