> > > > Not that the Indian Embassy didn't try their hardest to blow it.
If it gives you any consolation, I (an Indian citizen resident in India) am in the process of renewing my US visit visa. The cost is higher, the form is longer, the questions are more onerous and after my (usually highly efficient) assistant gave up, and I had to hire an outside person at the cost of Rs. 2,000 just to fill the from - as that would take one entire day of an unbroken http session online. I have held a 10-year business visa before. And I still have no idea if I'll get a renewal. I do know for a fact that the costs are reciprocal. India charges nationals of other countries exactly what those countries charge our nationals. But now I sense the ordeal is also reciprocally arranged. Mahesh
