Abhinav Consultants, Delhi (Nehru PLace)
Complaint 331115 Details

Applying through Abhinav consultants is waste of time and money.
Instead of giving convenience of filing a visa, you get extra headache.
I have personally applied through them and now repenting on my decision. Their fee is aroung Rs. 70000.

I faced following issues:

- Their consultant employees don't have adequate knowledge of even very famous VISA (like that of Canada)

- I had to visit their centre 10 times to submit my documents. The problem was that their consultant was not sure of format of documents, each time she told me to bring differenet documents. Imagine, if you are coming from a bit far of place than Nehru place(their location), and you need to visit so frequently.

- They delayed to courier my file for 3 days. Actually they send the couriers of your visa file to respective countries in bunch to save money. In my case, they sent it 3 days after i submitted the documents. They waited for more files to be ready , and send the files in bunch to save money. (Mind you it takes Rs 3000 to send a courier to canada). Also, 3 days delay can cost you your visa, mind you there are limited seats that each country gives for Visas.

- They have only 3-4 cosultants working for them , so they keep busy in working for more and more clients. Therefore, if out of anxiety you want to enquire something, there are very less chances that they will take your call. They will make sometimes tell you that the concerned person is not there.

- They are not updated on timelines of the process of getting visa. If you follow a forum like CanadaVisa.com, you will see lot of information about your visa filing and intermediate process. If in case, you ask the same from Abhinav, you will get different responses from different consultants of theirs :-)
They will confuse you, as they did with me. I was aware enough to get the info from forums, everyone may not have time to do that.

- After sending my file, i noticed on forums that people who sent their file after mine also got their Credit cards charged but mine was still penidng. When i called Abhinav, i got very awkward responses from them like "kindly wait you will definitely get the alert", "we are not aware of any files that were sent after you and got charged!!!". They were trying to convince me by all illogical reasons.

- Finally i asked them that what is their next course of action if my credit card doesn't get charged, they said "we can only wait".
Whereas i found on forums that we can send any enquiry email to Canadian immigration department, and they respond in 4-5 days.

- When you file any Visa, you need to give you email id in that, through which any embassy can communicate the proceedings of your case. In case of abhinav, they put THEIR email instead of yours in the form. And now you are deprived of the communications also that embassy makes with you. I had to call them time and again to know the status.
Imagine, they dont answer your calls so frequently.
As a applicant, i can understand the anxiety of you calling them again and again and knowing the status of your file. After all it takes 1 long year to get the visa, but then they don't take you seriously. Either they dont answer your call, if they do, then they don't have suffcient knowledge. As a result, you end up feeling dis-satisfied.

- If you think that they will facilitate the whole Visa process for you, then you are wrong. You only have to arrange all documents(ofcourse), and then yourself get it notarized. You only go to your respective college and get your transcripts. In nutshell, they only fill your documents and courier them ti immigration departments.

After having read above points, imagine that the money you have paid them was to release the visa burden from your head. Instead they are giving you more and more burden. You have to keep a check on Visa as well as on Abhinav, which is twice the burden if you had filed the visa yourself.