Today was our visa interview. It wasn’t much of an interview to be honest.

An hour going to the consulate. 5 min wait to be called. 2 mins for QnA, finger printing and pic taking and 10 min wait for a visa Another hour back home

That’s it! The main issue is getting a date and since we had kind of an urgent condition, we had all our documents pre-checked and we called up the consulate for a slightly early date. We called on the 19th and got a date for the 24th. Yesterday, the agent who pre-checked our documents, went and submitted them as well.

The actual process was a breeze. The lady there asked me my name, occupation, college, reason of visit, dates of departure and return, all of which were less than 4 word answers. You can imagine how 14 words, 10 finger prints and one picture can be done in 2 minutes especially when the person on the other side is shooting questions immediately Before I realised I was being asked questions, she asked me to have a seat and wait for my visa

So its confirmed. We’re going to the world finals. I’ve had a look at the stuff they have planned for us and I can tell you its going to be off the hook. I’m trying to get hold of a lappy for work there and for dumping the immense amount of pics i take there because my cam can only take 2GB (yes, I said only. I need vids too you know! :P)

The entire trip so far (India SDI finals at Bangalore and Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator at IIM-A has so far given me about 2.5-3 GB of pics and those were places I’ve been to before and I know I’ll go again pretty soon You can do the math :p

As the mail said last night, its time to start packing :-D

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