Dear Ankur, Please accept our sincere congratulations, Your efforts, in steadfastly pursuing this matter, has paid off. This will be of great help and convenience to a lot of people in Assam/ NE instead of going to Calcutta.
Great job! Ram da On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Ankur Bora <ankur_bora2...@yahoo.com>wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
