TechAltarJul 14, 2025

This US visa application process took me 5 hrs and could not have been made to look more like a phishing scam even if they tried. The only reason I believe I wasn't phished is that they made actually paying for stuff hard, lol.

Half of it is goes over the most random looking websites that also just stop working, are operated by private businesses, your confirmation emails come via the weirdest email addresses, your passport get shipped to a random mailbox, etc...

Let's see if it worked!

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@Techaltar Add to it about a year of waiting for an interview in the consulate/embassy, where you’ll be escorted with armed guards to the bulletproof window with visa officer who might or might not lowkey interrogate you, and you’ll get the classic B1/B2 visa process for those of us with passports of “poor” countries
They really do their best to make you feel like a criminal in a jail, classic US experience I guess
Jul 14, 2025 at 9:46pmopenvibe