Timeline for How to apply for an schengen visa at the Italian consulate with invalid (old) F1 visa stamped?
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| May 6, 2019 at 3:53 | vote | accept | Arya | ||
| May 6, 2019 at 3:52 | answer | added | Arya | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 6, 2019 at 3:42 | comment | added | Arya | So here is our experience at the Consolato Generale d'Italia in Miami. We went there with my wife and 1-year old child. We reached Miami 7:30 in the morning and went from there to the consulate. Our experience has been only positive. The staffs were highly accommodating given we were traveling with an infant. They asked us only the simple questions, and when asked about producing the long term visa document, I gave them my I797A Notice of Action, and they accepted it readily. Finally, we were ten-printed, and that's all. I am waiting for my Schengen visa in mail. | |
| May 4, 2019 at 0:01 | comment | added | phoog | Please come back and let us know what happened. You can post an answer to your own question. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 7:10 | comment | added | Arya | Let's hope that they will listen to my case and judge it independently. Here is another reassuring post: travel.stackexchange.com/questions/112426/… | |
| May 2, 2019 at 6:59 | comment | added | phoog | I don't know any more than you do; we've both read Mandy's posts. But a difficult consular employee would surely point out that your visa appointment does not guarantee that you'll get a visa. They don't know, for example, whether you've done something to make yourself inadmissible in the meanwhile. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 6:56 | comment | added | Arya | If I show them a valid appointment date scheduled back in India for the US visa stamping and the flight tickets to India plus the I797. Would it not suffice in this case? It seems the requirement is very cyclic in nature and is leading me into a deadlock. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 6:52 | comment | added | phoog | Yes. But the requirement seems to ask for you to show, in addition to your legal presence in the US, that you may Iegally reenter the US. That depends on your being able to get a visa, and the Italian consulate probably doesn't want to get into the business of predicting who will or will not be granted a visa, never mind that in practice the visa application for someone in your situation is little more than a formality. That Mandy was lucky is probably attributable to somebody realizing that proof of ability to enter should strictly speaking not be required. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 6:49 | comment | added | Arya | On this thread: travel.stackexchange.com/questions/135403/…, you have said that "In that case your change-of-status approval notice, valid I-94 reflecting H-1B status and approved petition are proof of your legal residence in the US". Should it not be the same logic for my case as well? | |
| May 2, 2019 at 6:12 | comment | added | Arya | Yes, I understand that. I do have an updated work permit (I797) which is the premise to begin the visa stamping procedure back in India. Also from an itinerary standpoint, I am leaving Italy to go to India for the very same purpose. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 6:08 | comment | added | phoog | Without a valid visa, you cannot enter the US. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 3:15 | comment | added | Arya | What I don't understand is that why is the visa stamping so important? I mean I do have a valid work permit, and that should suffice. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 20:58 | comment | added | phoog | Maybe you will be lucky as was Mandy. The current [document list]( consmiami.esteri.it/consolato_miami/resource/doc/2018/06/…) seems to be from 2018 (see the URL), though, so it's clearly not official policy to allow an application in your circumstances. The other thing you might try would be to show a plan to travel to India after leaving Italy, but then they might argue that you've failed to show that you reside in the US. Since your appointment is this week, you probably have no choice but to try and hope for the best. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 20:46 | comment | added | Arya | Thank you for your response. I saw another thread: travel.stackexchange.com/questions/53833/… and I was hoping that I could produce the I797 and perhaps a US visa stamping date (schedule) back in India to justify the travel. | |
| May 1, 2019 at 20:43 | comment | added | phoog | You can get a US visa while you're in Italy, or you can go to Mexico or Canada to get one, but I suspect that the consulate will require you to have a valid US visa before they'll grant a Schengen visa, since they say that the visa must be valid for at least three months after your planned departure from Schengen territory, implying that they're looking for proof that you'll be able to get back into the US. | |
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