Congratulations Ankur. Many will be thankful to you now and also in the future.
Excellent initiative. Keep it up. Greetings, Wahid da From: northeastin...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:northeastin...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ankur Bora Sent: 22 July 2011 04:37 To: friendsofassa...@yahoogroups.com; North East; Support a child Cc: assam org Subject: [NorthEastIndia] (non) Acceptance of the US visa application fees at Guwahati Dear All, There were a couple of postings on this issue recently in various Assam and North East based yahoo groups. It's about application payment for US visa interview through HDFC bank. HDFC bank has been authorized to accept the US visa application fee by the US consulate. However, the HDFC bank branches either in Guwahati or any other city of North East region do not have the facility for accepting the money and issuing the receipt. This has caused tremendous inconvenience as people have to go all the way to Calcutta to pay the fees. There was question posted - Does everyone travel to Kolkata just to pay the fee? - Unfortunately it was true unless he has frineds/relatives there. We thought it is time for an initiative to make the US Consulate accept fees at banks in the North East, given that there is more than a trickle of traffic to US. I submitted an email to the HDFC bank. Intially they were reluctant to pursue the matter. I however continued to pursue mainly I was getting supporting emails from the FASS and Noerth East India group. Finally HDFC bank informed that they received the approval from Embassy to start collection of application fees at Fancy Bazar branch in Guwahati. Finally , Hemanta Bayan Deputy Vice President of HDFC bank informed that the visa application fees would be accepted from 25th July 2011 at Fancy Bazar. This is a successful collective effort and I am sharing the news Cheers, Ankur __._,_.___ Reply to <mailto:ankur_bora2...@yahoo.com?subject=Re%3A%20%28non%29%20Acceptance%20of %20the%20US%20visa%20application%20fees%20at%20Guwahati> sender | Reply to <mailto:northeastin...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Re%3A%20%28non%29%20Acceptanc e%20of%20the%20US%20visa%20application%20fees%20at%20Guwahati> group | Reply <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthEastIndia/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJxOGQ2ZnZpBF9T Azk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEwOTQzODg1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTgzODA3MwRtc2dJZAM4MTg5BHNl YwNmdHIEc2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTMxMTMwMjIxMw--?act=reply&messageNum=8189> via web post | <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthEastIndia/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmc2E3YnAxBF9T Azk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEwOTQzODg1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTgzODA3MwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNu dHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzMTEzMDIyMTM-> Start a New Topic Messages in this topic <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthEastIndia/message/8189;_ylc=X3oDMTM1YWZ0 azRiBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEwOTQzODg1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTgzODA3MwRtc2dJZAM4 MTg5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTMxMTMwMjIxMwR0cGNJZAM4MTg5> (1) Recent Activity: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthEastIndia;_ylc=X3oDMTJmOGhkMTN1BF9TAzk3M zU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEwOTQzODg1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTgzODA3MwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwB HN0aW1lAzEzMTEzMDIyMTM-> Visit Your Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJlaHBtOTJnBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEwO TQzODg1BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTgzODA3MwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTMxMTMwMjIxM w--> Yahoo! Groups Switch to: <mailto:northeastindia-traditio...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Change%20Delivery %20Format:%20Traditional> Text-Only, <mailto:northeastindia-dig...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Email%20Delivery:%20Di gest> Daily Digest . <mailto:northeastindia-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe> Unsubscribe . <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Terms of Use . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=10943885/grpspId=1705838073/msgI d=8189/stime=1311302213/nc1=1/nc2=2/nc3=3> __,_._,___ _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
