Preponement Fraud Going on

[rcmax]

I heard that there are some brokers who charge Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 to get appointments preponed. What they do is ask you to cancel your existing appointment and save a new DS-156. When the database is down for nightly maintenance, the saved DS-156 (of those who paid money) are moved into the empty slots created by genuine cancellations. Obviously these brokers have contact with the techies who do the database maintenance. Thats is how some people are getting appointments preponed.

[ramkumarkoditala]

I heard that there are some brokers who charge Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 to get appointments preponed. What they do is ask you to cancel your existing appointment and save a new DS-156. When the database is down for nightly maintenance, the saved DS-156 (of those who paid money) are moved into the empty slots created by genuine cancellations. Obviously these brokers have contact with the techies who do the database maintenance. Thats is how some people are getting appointments preponed.

Again... this is not good
Thx
RK

[HurricaneBay]

Absolutely. My cousin has been trying to get an appointment for F1 visa and he initially got a slot in late August. Few days back he met with a broker, paid 7000 Rs and got it re-scheduled to mid June without any hitch. He said almost all of his friends book an initial slot and then are going through this broker guy for earlier dates. I just can't believe that the US Consulate would be so naive. They outsource the appointment system to VFS and just expect everything to be hunky-dorey. Consulate officials don't even seem to be bothered to hear about the grievances of VFS users.

[rcmax]

I will send an e-mail to the US Consulate informing them about this practice.

[VisitorSon]

I heard this during tts time.

now VFS also is doing this?

[bapiguru]

Preponement is bad english.

The correct word is advance.