Originally Posted by milepig

Just an update, the call to CKGS was less than successful, the person could only read back text from an obviously prepared script. At the end I did say "but you haven't answered my question" and repeated that the application says 1 month and that's a problem. He then said he'd made a note in the file and that the processor in the office would take care of it. I'm going with that and will take this all in next week. I asked several times that I'd heard tourist visas are almost always issued for 6 months, could he confirm that and I got the same nonsense back.

I'll report back in after we've been to the CKGS Chicago office.