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World - / Oct 16, 2026 - Indian man travels across consulates for F1 visa interviews, gets visa after 13 rejections. In his 14th interview, he was asked to plan a 20-storey residential building - An Indian man claimed he finally got his F1 visa to study civil engineering in the US after being rejected 13 times at several consulates in India. The man, identified as Prasanth, shared his derailed experience of rejections one by one and the

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