AIS Visa Appointment Booking with Anti-Bot Handling

Purpose

Automate AIS US Visa Information appointment scheduling for a supplied locale, credentials, date range, and optional appointment constraints.

When to Use

Use when an AIS NIV applicant must authenticate, handle the site's browser challenge, inspect appointment availability, and submit a booking for a slot in a caller-specified date interval.

Workflow

1. Build the locale-specific sign-in URL directly: https://ais.usvisa-info.com/{locale}/niv/users/sign_in (the observed Canadian locale is {locale}=en-ca). Navigate there with waitUntil: "domcontentloaded".
2. Immediately invoke the Browserless challenge solver with solve({wait:false, timeout:30000}); the AIS page may remain inaccessible until this completes.
3. Fill the sign-in form using the page's email and password inputs, then submit. Supply credentials only through runtime variables such as {email} and {password}; never place them in the skill.
4. If a terms/consent checkbox or acceptance control is shown, accept it before continuing. Locate the appointment-scheduling link or button from the authenticated page rather than guessing an opaque appointment URL, then follow it.
5. On the scheduling page, use the page's date and time controls to inspect dates from {start-date} through {end-date} inclusive. Prefer the site's calendar controls and available-slot elements; do not treat disabled dates or unavailable times as slots.
6. Select the first slot satisfying the caller's optional constraints, verify that the displayed date/time and applicant details are correct, and submit the booking. If no qualifying slot exists, return an explicit no-availability result instead of submitting.
7. After navigation to the confirmation state, run this evaluator on the loaded scheduling or confirmation page to capture the visible appointment data:

(() => {
  const text = (el) =>
    (el?.innerText || el?.value || el?.getAttribute("aria-label") || "")
      .replace(/\\s+/g, " ")
      .trim();
  const dateNodes = [
    ...document.querySelectorAll(
      'input[id*="appointment_date"], input[name*="appointment_date"], [data-date], td.available, button.available, .ui-datepicker-calendar td',
    ),
  ];
  const timeNodes = [
    ...document.querySelectorAll(
      'select[id*="appointment_time"], select[name*="appointment_time"], option:not([disabled]), [data-time], .appointment-time, .time-slot',
    ),
  ];
  const confirmation = [
    ...document.querySelectorAll(
      'h1,h2,h3,.confirmation,.appointment-details,[class*="confirmation"],[class*="appointment"]',
    ),
  ]
    .map(text)
    .filter(Boolean);
  return {
    url: location.href,
    dateControls: dateNodes
      .map((el) => ({
        text: text(el),
        date: el.getAttribute("data-date") || el.value || null,
      }))
      .filter((x) => x.text || x.date),
    timeControls: timeNodes
      .map((el) => ({
        text: text(el),
        time: el.getAttribute("data-time") || el.value || null,
      }))
      .filter((x) => x.text || x.time),
    confirmation,
  };
})();

Site-Specific Gotchas

• The known entry point is the locale-scoped path /en-ca/niv/users/sign_in; substitute the caller's locale rather than using the site root.
• The run required Browserless solve(wait:false, timeout:30000) before authenticated interaction; invoke it at the sign-in page.
• Appointment and confirmation URLs were not exposed by the observed run, so do not invent an opaque ID-bearing URL. Resolve the scheduling control after login.
• Availability calendars commonly contain disabled dates and multiple row/control types; extract only enabled controls and validate the selected date against both inclusive range boundaries.
• Booking is an external side effect. Confirm the selected date, time, location, and applicant before the final submit action.

Expected Output

Return {status, appointment, url}, where status is booked, no_availability, or error; appointment contains the selected date/time/location when available; and url is the final page URL.