Originally Posted by
abcx
According to the comments on the Live From A Lounge blog, Indians in the US need to go back to India for police verification. Great. Sigh.
This police verification business is a total farce. They did something like that for a tatkal passport application (post-facto that too I think!) and it's all just theater.
That's correct according to CBP.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-t...ndian-citizens