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Emmanuel Lenain, ambassador of France to India, tweeted: “Looking to study in France? Student visa applications are now open at your nearest VFS centre! Get all the information you need on programmes & scholarships, plus free counselling at your nearest Campus France office. One applicant’s father tweeted asking for locked accounts to be reopened: “Please empathise and let not our kids go through more stress.” Another said: “The site kept crashing leaving us with no choice but to log in multiple times and now we’ve been blocked for 72 hours.” Meanwhile, France is wooing students from India and has resumed student visa processing.
Going by the previous numbers about 80,000 to 1 lakh students must have logged in at the same time it is like opening a two-by-two door for entry into a large stadium there is going to be a stampede.” Another counsellor added: “Ideally, the process should have been staggered.” Students who have been locked out have requested the embassy to unblock their accounts. I am surprised they did not anticipate the rush. Study abroad counsellor Pratibha Jain said, “This is the first time the consulate website has crashed. When we realized the site was not accepting bookings, we slept for a bit and logged in again early in the morning.” Another candidate said slots did open initially for Delhi and Kolkata, but as demand surged and applicants kept refreshing, they were locked out. However, an aspirant who is flying out for a post-doctoral programme said, “There was no clarity on the time when the embassy would open appointment slots. “Student visas remain a top priority for the US Mission to India and we are making every attempt to facilitate student travel in time for the fall semester,” the embassy had said. Officials had assured candidates that everyone would get a slot once the process opened. The consulate had held a webinar on June 10 to hand out information on visas interviews and pre-boarding requirements. Request you to unlock the accounts, at least this time,” said one. “My account got locked without a prior warning. The embassy’s tweet warning students not to refresh too often drew scores of replies, many of them seemingly desperate appeals. By afternoon, the site had a message that said: “We are down for maintenance”. Students who kept refreshing in the hope of booking a slot were eventually locked out for “suspicious activity” for 72 hours. Appointments remain available at all posts, and we will continue to add appointments as conditions allow,” the US embassy said in a tweet on Monday after it resumed the process of facilitating travel for those who have to join colleges in July and August. Please remember, do not refresh too often, as you may be locked out of your account. “We are aware of the high demand for student visa appointments. NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A scramble for interview slots among applicants who have to join US colleges this fall led to glitches on the embassy portal as it resumed processing student visas in India on Monday.
