How it works

All of this. Handled.

Five phases. One team. From your first Discovery Call to landing in America with your I-20 in hand, through your degree, and home with knowledge intact.

Typical timeline. 12 to 18 months

Discovery

School list

Strategy

Applications

Decisions

M10

Visa

M12

USA

M14

Week 1

Discovery Call

Your Discovery Call is a focused 45-minute conversation between RF India and your family. We meet your student, hear their academic story, learn what your family is trying to build with a US education, and walk through the F-1 visa landscape as it stands today. We share how RF India works, what services your student would need, and we answer the questions you came in with. There is no charge for this call and no pressure to commit at the end. By the time we hang up, you know whether RF India is the right partner for your family.

What you get

45-minute family video call with a senior RF India advisor

What you get

F-1 landscape briefing tailored to your student

What you get

Service-fit recommendation, in writing

Weeks 2 to 3

Your Curated School List

Within two weeks of signing on, we build your student's custom shortlist from our curated list of top US universities. The shortlist is filtered for F-1 safety first, then for fit: academic profile, intended major, climate, campus size, Indian student community strength, and four-year cost. Each school comes back tagged Safe, Target, or Reach with specific reasoning your family can read and push back on. We sit with you a second time to walk through the list before anything gets locked in.

What you get

Custom shortlist matched to your profile (PDF)

What you get

Tier breakdown: Safe / Target / Reach

What you get

Live walk-through call with your family

Months 2 to 4

Full Strategy Build

Once your school list is locked, your dedicated C3 builds the full strategy document. This is the playbook for the next twelve to eighteen months of your student's life: application timeline, essay calendar, test-score targets, financial-aid moves, recommendation-letter strategy, and a deadline tracker every parent and student can read. The strategy build also calls out F-1 risks at every milestone so nothing is left to chance the day the application portals open.

What you get

Personalized Strategy Build document

What you get

Application timeline and deadline tracker

What you get

Essay calendar with target word counts and prompts

Months 4 to 10

Execution and Submission

This is the work. Weekly or biweekly working sessions with your C3, structured essay drafting and editing rounds, application portal walk-throughs, financial-aid form reviews, recommendation-letter coordination, and steady accountability all the way through Common App, Coalition, and direct submissions. Your student is never alone in front of a portal at midnight wondering what to click. The work is hard, but the path is clear.

What you get

Weekly or biweekly working sessions with your C3

What you get

Structured essay edit rounds for every school

What you get

Submission checklist for each application

Months 10 onward, through Year 4

Visa, Arrival, Graduation, Return Home

Once admission decisions land, we shift fully into the visa lane. Your student gets I-20 review with the school's DSO, DS-160 preparation, SEVIS fee guidance, financial-documentation packaging, and a structured series of mock visa interviews, recorded, reviewed, and rerun until your student is calm. After the visa stamp lands, we run pre-arrival orientation: port-of-entry expectations, ISO check-in, banking, housing, phone, and a clear day-one playbook on campus. From there we stay engaged through your student's degree, then guide the transition home after Year 4 so they return with their degree, their network, and their expertise intact.

What you get

I-20 review and DS-160 prep walk-through

What you get

Mock visa interviews (multiple rounds, recorded)

What you get

Pre-arrival orientation and day-one playbook

What you get

Return-home transition guidance after Year 4

The process, in song

Three minutes. The whole story.

A song we made that walks the same arc as the phases above. Press play.

American Chapter (Remastered)

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Your American chapterstarts with one call.

Book a free 45-minute discovery call. We'll show you exactly how RF India works, walk through the F-1 landscape with your family, and tell you whether we're the right fit. Your custom shortlist is built within two weeks of signing on.

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