Yes, Ankur.. her email did get hacked... even I got fooled We are doing fine, hope things are going good for all of you.
Ram da On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Ram Sarangapani <assa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
