Re: [Assam] (non) Acceptance of the US visa application fees at Guwahati
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.comwrote: 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
[Assam] Space Shuttle Discovery Crew Cabin View
Here is something worth the couple of minutes to view: a 360 panorama of the Space Shuttle Discovery crew cabin flight deck. This is pretty cooland maybe the last time we get to see it before it’s stuffed and mounted at the Smithsonian! ENJOY…… Lighting is from the internal instrument panel lights… http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] (non) Acceptance of the US visa application fees at Guwahati
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.comwrote: 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
Re: [Assam] Space Shuttle Discovery Crew Cabin View
Thanks C'da That was awesome! Ram On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Chan Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com wrote: Here is something worth the couple of minutes to view: a 360 panorama of the Space Shuttle Discovery crew cabin flight deck. This is pretty cooland maybe the last time we get to see it before it’s stuffed and mounted at the Smithsonian! ENJOY…… Lighting is from the internal instrument panel lights… http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html ___ 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
