US visa slots, verified before your phone buzzes

Ghost slots are appointment dates the visa portal shows for a few seconds even though they were almost never bookable. You see a date, rush to sign in, and it's gone — or the booking step rejects it. They're common, and they're the main reason slot alerts from most sources feel unreliable. Our full explainer covers them in detail.

An optional opt-in for power users: with Ghost Alerts on, the app can ping you about ghost and flicker activity with its own distinct pager tone, clearly labeled so it can't be mistaken for a verified alert. It's off by default, a warning dialog sets expectations when you enable it, and it auto-expires after a set window. The honest caveat: most ghost sightings can't be booked, and we don't recommend chasing them — this is transparency, not extra booking chances.

When new dates appear, GetMyVisa doesn't alert immediately. Every opening goes through a verification step first — and ghost dates, which vanish in seconds, fail it. Only releases that pass verification trigger a push alert, so when your phone buzzes, the dates were genuinely available at that moment.

No. GetMyVisa only tells you when real slots open. You book the appointment yourself, in your own account on the official portal. We never ask for your visa portal password, and we never book, hold, or trade slots. Be careful with any service that offers to book for you — that puts your account at risk.

The US Embassy in New Delhi and the consulates in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Almost all verified openings so far have been B1/B2 OFC (biometric) dates. Other visa types open rarely, so we don't promise alerts for them.

No. GetMyVisa is an independent app with no connection to the US government, any embassy or consulate, or usvisascheduling.com. We send alerts about publicly visible appointment availability — nothing more. Official information about your visa application always comes from the embassy and the official scheduling portal, not from us.

Alerted slots are real, but they're shared with every applicant in India — a verified release can be fully booked within minutes. If it's gone when you look, someone got there first. That's also why one-or-two-date sightings aren't alerted by default: our data shows they're almost never still bookable by the time anyone signs in.

No. GetMyVisa never signs in to your visa account, so it doesn't add to your lockout risk. The lockouts you hear about come from people or automated tools refreshing the portal dozens of times an hour. Alerts remove that need: your phone stays quiet until a verified slot opens, so you sign in only when it matters.