Posted by: Motherland January 7, 2011
H1b Stamping Experience
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Sirus_Me

Canadian consulate here in US know about the H1-B visa services being provided by US Consulates in Canada for non Canadians. You have to mention in the application that you are going for H1-b stamping(purpose of the trip), and while applying for Canadain visa there are additional documents required for people going there for H1-B stamping. You can get all that information from the Canadian consulate website.

Also, the consulate never asked me why I was going to Canada and not to Nepal. I guess others have been asked that and you can always say something about not having enough time to visit your country or you can say your company is sponsoring the trip. My first stamping was in 2007 and my second in 2010, both from Vancouver.

No, they never say anything about going back to your home country for first stamping. I have never come across anything like that, but I have heard people mentioning that some  I-797 have  the consulate named  on it where the applicants have to get stamping from. I might be wrong on this bit of information.

Below is the website where you can get your visa appointement from US Consulate in Canada. They have info on what documents are needed and how to proceed.

https://www.usvisa-info.com/en-CA/selfservice/ss_country_welcome



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