Settings
Everything here stays in this browser. Your login and security answers are never transmitted — not to the community mesh, not anywhere.
Your login
The same username and password you use on usvisascheduling.com.
Security questions
Pick the three you chose during signup, exactly as the portal asks them, then type each answer.
Asked something not listed?
Add it as keyword = answer, one per line. Keywords match
loosely, so use the fewest distinctive words — born = Springfield matches
“…town/city where you were born?”. Whatever you enter is what gets used.
Alerts
Free phone push via ntfy.sh. Pick any unguessable string and subscribe to the same one in the ntfy app. Anyone who knows it can read your alerts, so don't use your name.
Community mesh optional
Pools sightings with others running this, so you hear about a slot even when your own browser is watching a different city. Only the location, the day count and the first date are sent. Leave off to run entirely on your own.
Whoever runs the group gives you both topic names. They may set an owner-first window, meaning they see a sighting some seconds before you do — ask them what it is; you are entitled to know.
Lets the group owner see that your browser is still alive, so a silent failure gets noticed. Leave it blank and your sightings still count, they just are not attributed.
Lets the owner ask your browser to check now, or to re-login if your session died. Signed requests only, rate-limited by your own browser, and it can never book — no remote request can submit an appointment on your account. Off by default.
Back up my login to the group vault (optional)
This uploads your portal username, password and security answers to the group owner's server so your browser can log itself back in while you are away. Read this before ticking it:
- The group owner becomes the custodian of credentials to an account holding your passport number and travel history.
- Each record is encrypted with its own key, and the stored data contains no readable password — but the key that unwraps it sits in the server's environment, so it is not hardware-protected.
- Your password is only ever sent back to this browser. There is no route that shows it to the owner or anyone else.
- Nobody can rotate it for you. Use a password unique to this portal, and change it yourself when you leave the group.
- You can withdraw it at any time, below. Deletion is a real delete.
- You do not need this. Monitoring, alerts, auto-login and booking all work with your login staying on this machine.
Hosted board (optional)
Automatic booking
Leave both blank to accept any date. A slot outside the window still alerts you and is left selected with the calendar and time already filled in — it is simply never submitted for you.
On by default, and it overrides everything above: the extension will find the slot, open the calendar, pick the time and then stop, alerting you instead of submitting. Untick it only when you have decided to let it book for real.
This submits a real appointment the moment an acceptable slot appears. If your account has limited rescheduling attempts left, a wrong date can consume one. Leave it off to be notified only — notification is still far faster than refreshing by hand.