POOR Service in INDIAN CONSULATE GENERAL offices SFO and Houston

"Consulate Services are not properly managed, Especially in case of emergency. Consulate should be there to help the citizens."

"Houston especially offers horrible service."

"No response to e-mail, letter or phone. Contact includes Houston, Washington, D.C., Delhi"

"Houston OFFICE is very BAD - no service"

"Not able to reach Indian Ebassy through Phone or email.."

"Very Horrible service. They don't answer phones at all"

"I did one in may 2007, which was a terrible frightening experience, as i didnot have any status of my passport , until I saw it on the mail just 5 days before i trip to india, Phone calls waste of time"

"I applied for renewal of my passport and its been a month and I do not have any response whatsoever from them, and it is impossible to reach them or get a reply via email or phone. Tried it literally few hundred times so far."

"Nobody picks the phone in houston"

"contacting houston embassy is a nightmare, wake up MR. Pranab Mukherjee, there is world outside 10 Janpath too."

"Indian consulate website is very confusing and misleading..so much for efficiency"

"Please avail new technologies and give respect to the users of CIS"

"100\% agree with your points"

"I hate indian consulates. Who ever is incharge is not fit for serving humans. Also, I feel India is still not ready for this (peaceful way) way of protest. I believe, only way to get attention on consulate problems is to behave like non humans (throwing s"

"Very rude and unprofessional. Impossible to contact the right person over phone. Extremely slow at responding to and processing applications."

"CGI Poor Service"

"worst service."

"no body answers and replies from indian consulate in houston."

"professionalism, efficiency and helpfulness of the staff needs to be improved"

"hustion has very bad service. My friend had passport renewal which he sent 3 months ago still waiting"

"I agree with what is written in the petition but it is much less than what it should be. I am experiencing huge delays, non-answer by anybody from the Houston Consulate and Washington DC Consulate Services for the applications from us as well as from our "

"I have been trying to contact the Houston office in reference to my sons application for a PIO card. The application was sent 7 weeks back. As of today 05/02/2008 I have not heard from Them. Have been trying to reach the consulate by all means (Phone, ema"

"The outsourcing of responsibility to Travisa has relieved both parties of all accountability... fingers just point to the other party... and the traveler is caught in the middle. Stating that the status of an application is pending when in reality additio"

"It doesn't appear they ever answer calls or respond to email queries. Some of the staff is very rude. When I was in SFO (Flew over) and requested an update they blew me away without even trying to help. Unfortunate."