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I am answering this question considering that you want to apply for Schengen visa for tourist purposes.Well, I’ve always thought of writing a post about this as I spent quite some time researching on this topic, but never really made it. But thank you for the question, I’ve got a chance to help folks out.As an Indian in the US, one of the most important things is to have a proper itinerary with you. So let’s say you have a Europe trip planned, you need to identify which is the country where you will have the maximum stay, that’s the consulate where you need to apply for the Schengen visa.For example: If your trip comprises 3 days in Germany, 2 days in Italy, 1 day in France, then you need to apply at the German Consulate. Other factor is based on first country that you enter.I hope that I got the basics covered as of right now.Now let me quickly walk you through the steps for the same:Fill in the Schengen Visa Application: The application forms contains information about your current stay, nationality, which country you will enter first, details of stay, etc.If you do your trip with a tours and travel then you come under the category of prepaid accommodation and transport.Download Schengen Visa Application Form - Schengen VISA InformationGet Medical Insurance:For your period of stay, you need to get medical insurance which covers 30,000 euros. It is recommended to get it from MAWISTA,that’s where I got it from.Health Insurance for Schengen Visa and Foreign VisitorsVisa Appointment: Book a visa appointment at Consulate based on your country of maximum stay or the country where you first enter. For me this was the French Consulate and I managed to get an appointment within a couple of days. One also has to remember that appointments are based on your residence so you will have to book an appointment at a Consulate-General closest to you which was Houston in my case ( I was residing in Texas at that time)Put together the Document Set: You need to get all documents arranged in a proper manner which include Passport copy, latest photographs, proof of accommodation, flight details, financial account information ( show amount which justify your period of stay considering 50 euros per day if you have prepaid accommodation and transport)Attend the Visa Interview: They will ask you a basic set of questions including your reason to visit Europe, length of your stay, your current status in US and will ask you for financial documents, visa copy and so on. Once they are happy with financials as well as your reason, you will be good to go.Make sure you carry a prepaid envelope with your address to be given to Consulate if you want the visa to be shipped back or else if you do stay in the same city you can go in-person and collect the same.Enjoy your Europe trip!Let me know if you still have any questions!

Yes, your daughter is a Person of Indian Origin and qualifies for an OCI card [1] You can apply for the OCI online, and it takes about 12 weeks to get it. An OCI card is a multiple entry visa. Your daughter will be able to travel to India as long as it’s valid. I just went through this for my daughter, and can try to explain itThe OCI application process is the most complicated process I have ever gone through in my life. Recently they have started making everything online, and of course becausewe are like this only, they have to do everything their own way instead of just copying what every other country in the world does. So, buckle up for some fun. See, the thing is that there are many agencies involved here. OCIs are granted by the Indian Passport office. However, the embassy is actually going to provide the OCI card. And the embassy doesn’t want to deal with people anymore (unless there’s an emergency). So, they have picked a private company called Cox and King’s (CKGS) to be the intermediarySo, the process is thisa) You go to the CKGS website to start an applicationb) Midway through the application, you halt the application, and go to the Indian Passport office’s website and start a new applicationc) You scan and upload a bunch of documents.d) During the process, the website will ask you to sign the document by drawing your signature. DONT SIGN THE DOCUMENT BY DRAWING YOUR SIGNATURE. Because after you have submitted your signature, it tells you that if the applicant is a minor, you need a thumbprint and you shouldn’t put the parent’s signature. By the time it tells you that, there is no way to go back and unbdo your signature. Why? because we are like this onlye) The Passport office website will give you a softcopy of the application form that you just filled out. Print this form, and keep the soft copy. It also gives you an application number. Keep this numberf) Go back to CKGS website to complete your application. Upload the application form that the Indian Passport office and paste the application number in the correct field to continueg) CKGS will give you a checklist of the documents that they need. Pay good attention to this checklist. Some of the documents need to be scanned and uploaded. For some of the copies, they need hard copies that needs to be sent to them (more on this later). For some documents, they need the document to be notarized copies(more on this later), for others they don;t need notarized copies. I can’t understand how they decide what they can notarize and what they can’t. Pay attention to what needs to be done to which document because if you make a mistake, CKGS will return your application back to you. By the way, these documents are extensive. For example, you will need to show that you and your wife are married, so you have to provide your marriage certificate. I have no idea what single parents do!h) Reupload all the documents that you uploaded in step c. By the way fill all the information again. Why couldn’t CKGS talk to India passport office and get all this information themselves? Because we are like this onlyi) Pay CKGS $300 dollars. This is on the cKGS websitej) Pay CKGS $31.50 courier fees. This is $15.00 to send the documents to CKGS, and $15 for them to send the OCI card back to you. This is also on the CKGS websitek) CKGS will give you a payment reciept for you Print out the payment receipt for both things. CKGS will also give you a prepaid FedEx barcode. Print that outl) Go to the notary to notarize the documents. This is funny. As you might know, notaries notarize documents as “true copies”, which means that they are basically attesting that the copy is the same as the original. Depending on your jurisdiction, notaries are not allowed to notarize certain documents. For example, in Virginia, notaries cannot notarize birth certificates. What they can do is notarize a statement from you that says that you claim that the copy of the birth certificate is original. If your notary refuses to notarize a document, there is another form that you need to sign and get it notarized.m) Make a neat packet from all the documents that you need to send to them. Go to fedex. Put the documents in the fedex envelope and give fedex the barcode and they will ship it to CKGS. Note that you are not sending originals yet. Why? Because you have a long way to go! LAso, remember the payment reciepts that you got from CKGS. You have to put the printouts of those payment reciepts in this packet. Where is this packet going? To CKGS. Where did you get the payment recipet from? CKGS. Why do you need to send the reciept back to CKGS instead of them simply looking up the transaction in their database? We are like this only.n) CKGS check the documents and send them to embassyo) Embassy will check the documents and send them to Delhip) Delhi will give their blessing and now you have entered the phase called the OCI Match Up phase. Yay!!! Until now, you were getting ready to apply for OCI. Now you are going to actually apply for OCIq) Go back to CKGS website to start the OCI match up process.r) Now there’ another checklist that says what you need to send them. The checklist lies. It says that you need to send them a Money Order. You don’t need to send them a Money Order. I spent 20 minutes on hold with the CKGS call center today to confirm this. This 20 minutes is my gift to yous) You will again pay for fed ex shipping like you did last time, and it will print out a pre-paid fedex envelope for you. Pay attention because apparently there is a button somewhere that you can use to tell them that you already paid them $15 for return courier when when you paid courier fees last time. I missed this button and paid $15 extra. Again $15 is my gift to you. If you want to give me $5, ping me, I’ll give you my Paypal account. :p I already made a $15 gift to CKGSt) Now you send them copies of the receipt that shows you have made payments, and the actual US passport of your childu) They will process this and send back the OCI card to youFootnotes[1] Visa for India from USA - CKGS USA

I’ve found many dishonest employees over the years. This is where most business losses come from. The last find was a real surprise. I hired a “retired Navy Seal” to manage my warehouse. I found his embezzlement when he was in the hospital getting a hip repair. He was very respectful, and elderly, about 70 years old… walked with a limp due to being “shot in the Iraq war”.Of course all of this was a big lie, he was probably one of the best con men I have met to date. He even had social media accounts all about military service, and often mentioned his faith in God.While this employee was in the hospital, gift cards he had set up on my shipping accounts were showing up addressed to him. Apparently he had set up rewards accounts on Fed Ex and on our shipping supplies account. It appears he negotiated higher priced goods for rewards cards that he cashed in. He also formed relationships with suppliers that were beneficial to him personally.This hard working, God fearing Patriot was there first thing in the am and stayed until the last postal drop every day, he even showed up on Saturdays. All along I thought he was just a great employee but in reality he was taking rewards cards, shipping from his side Ebay business on my shipping accounts and even had a side business buying expensive electronics, claiming they never arrived and then selling them on Ebay… all this from my warehouse. He had other money making schemes but I won’t go into them here.I would have caught this and the other embezzlers I’ve hired in the past if I had simply called their prior employers REAL phone numbers. We called the supervisor numbers he supplied, of course they were numbers to his friends phones who would lie for him. Everything on his resume and application was a lie, with tiny nuggets of truth peppered in.My best advice is to NEVER call phone numbers potential employers give you, do your own research. Google the potential employee with the word “arrest” and “embezzlement” like… “John Doe Embezzlement” “John Doe Arrested” I finally did this with my last embezzler and it turns out this “X Navy Seal” did at least 5 years in a federal prison for embezzling over 6 million dollars from the US Postal service, right here in Dallas where I hired him. He was never a Navy Seal and in fact I’m not sure he was ever in the service at all. This guy was hired as a warehouse supervisor with another company only a month or so after I fired him, right here in Dallas.Lesson here: Make your phone calls, run a background check as well and watch carefully the great employees that work long hours and appear to be too good to be true. Every thief I have caught to date went way above and beyond the call of duty and I assume it’s because they were making a lot more money than I thought.