Visa Drop box Eligibility for H1 to H4

[abhinav1404]

My wife H-1b visa valid till March'2019,She applied for COS to H4 while in USA and got approved.

If she goes for Visa stamping in India this year 2018 ,

is She eligible for Visa Drop box for H4 since her H-1b visa stamp on passport valid till March'2019

[xTDx]

From the ustraveldocs instructions there seems to be some confusion. See here: 

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/in/in-niv-visarenew.asp

They seems to consider any H type visa from the same class. However, I think the bar for h4 and h1b are different and you should not be able to use dropbox facility if changing from h4 to h1b or vice versa. I may be wrong. I would call ustraveldocs and get the clarification.

Another tip is to just go for h4 stamping and not to use the dropbox facility as most of the dropbox applications are called to appear in person anyway. Dropbox in that case will add extra week or so in the whole process. 

[gopalakrishnach]

Be prepared even though dropbox is available they may call for in-person also...

[san4u28]

Am in the same situation, let me know what you ended up doing? My wife's application by itself does not show Dropbox, but if i add her to my H1 stamping then it shows both are eligible for Dropbox (based off my criteria of course)