Three desks
Deep in three countries
rather than shallow in thirty.
Russia, the United States and Germany each break in a different place. We staff for those specific failure points, hold airline contracts on those routes, and say so plainly when a fourth country would be better served elsewhere.
Russia
Moscow · Saint Petersburg · Kazan · Volgograd
The invitation decides everything.
- Typical cohort20 – 60 students
- Lead time12 – 16 weeks
- Main intakeSeptember
United States
New Delhi · Mumbai · Chennai · Hyderabad · Kolkata
The document is not the constraint. The calendar is.
- Typical cohort15 – 80 travellers
- Lead time16 – 24 weeks
- Main intakeFall (Aug–Sep)
Germany
New Delhi · Mumbai · Bengaluru · Chennai · Kolkata
Procedural, predictable, and unforgiving about sequence.
- Typical cohort12 – 45 travellers
- Lead time16 – 22 weeks
- Main intakesWinter & Summer
Side by side
The same cohort,
three different problems.
A quick read on how the three desks differ. Every figure here is indicative and confirmed in writing against your actual file.
| Dimension | RU Russia | US United States | DE Germany |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary categories | Study visa · Business visa | F-1 student visa · B-1 / B-2 business & visitor | National visa (Type D) — studies · Schengen (Type C) — business |
| Typical cohort | 20 – 60 students | 15 – 80 travellers | 12 – 45 travellers |
| Lead time | 12 – 16 weeks | 16 – 24 weeks | 16 – 22 weeks |
| Main intake | September | Fall (Aug–Sep) | Winter & Summer |
| Gating step | Study — medicine | Appointment supply | APS certificate |
| Filing season | May – August, for a September intake. | Student season runs May – August for a Fall intake. Book the strategy in February. | Winter semester filings run April – July. Summer semester runs October – December. |
| Air pairings | DEL → SVO · BOM → SVO | DEL → EWR · DEL → ORD | DEL → FRA · BOM → MUC |
Indicative figures · confirmed per file · last reviewed this quarter
And everywhere else?
We do file for other destinations for accounts we already hold — Schengen states beyond Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the UAE and Central Asia among them. What we will not do is pretend a desk exists where it does not. If your cohort is better served by an agency with real depth in a country we only touch occasionally, we will tell you that in the first conversation rather than the third month.
Ask about a destinationStart a file
Not sure which desk you need?
Tell us the cohort and the intake date and we will tell you which country desk it belongs to — and whether the date you have in mind is real.