The hunt for a date makes applicants vulnerable — to account blocks, to malware dressed as 'helpers', and to plain theft. Five habits keep your application, your fee and your account safe.
Check availability only on the official scheduling website, in a normal browser, logged in as yourself. Any other site "showing live slots" is guessing, scraping someone else's session, or setting you up.
Check a few times a day, not a few times a minute. Relentless refreshing is the behaviour pattern the portal's anti-automation systems are built to catch — read our Access Limitation guide before you learn it the hard way.
No checker extensions, no auto-refresh tools, no "slot bots", and your password goes to no human being, ever — not an agent, not a service, not a well-meaning stranger in a Telegram group. Every one of those has cost applicants their appointments.
It asks for your portal login. It guarantees a date. It wants payment in gift cards, crypto or a personal UPI with urgency attached. It shows screenshots as proof. It operates from a lookalike name or a freshly made group. Any one of these is disqualifying — the Embassy has cancelled bot-booked appointments in bulk and suspended the accounts attached, which means the "service" keeps your money and you keep the consequences.
The safe system is boring by design: your own eyes on the official portal at a human pace, community sightings confirmed by independent applicants, and readiness — documents, fee, decisions made in advance — so a real opening converts instead of expiring. That is the whole SlotDost model, and it is free.
Read our promiseYes — the official portal in your phone's normal browser is fine. What is not fine is third-party "slot checker" apps that ask you to log in through them; your credentials are the product they are harvesting.
A few spaced checks a day is a sane rhythm for most applicants; during your category's peak weeks, lean on confirmed community alerts rather than escalating your own refresh rate into block territory.
No. Watching your account means holding your password, which means your appointment, fee and personal data sit in a stranger's hands. SlotDost will never offer it and neither will anyone legitimate.