JEE Main Counselling

Hello dear,
Your home state will be the state where you belongs to information of home state is given is your permanent residential certificate. Or voter ID. It doesn't matter where you completed your school study.

Hi buddy, JEE Mains counselling (also called JOSAA) is starting from 15th June. You can check on the website of JEE for more information. I hope this helps. All the best.

Since, your questions seems less clear, I request you to describe it in a bit more words. Moreover, there is no harm in going through both the counselling. Opt for the best college, by comparing it with from both.

The schedule of JEE Main counselling will be announced soon. The counselling will only begin after JEE Main and Advanced result will be announced. The result of JEE Mains came on April 30, 2018, and the result of JEE Advanced is due on June 10, 2018.

Yes, you will get a NIT if your rank is 5.5k. Don't worry, you will get a college. You can get colleges like NIT Arunachal Pradesh, IIIT SONEPAT, IIIT KALYANI, etc. I am providing you the link. Please check the college list. I have mentioned a few of them:
https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/resources/jee-mains-college-predictor
I hope your query is resolved
Best of luck.

If this is your all India Rank, then you'll definitely get in any of the top colleges. If this is your category rank, then you can expect in top 6-11 NIT's. Also, you can go for various good autonomous institutes with home state quota. Refer NIRF rankings for engineering for their performance analysis.

You may get till last round of counselling.

Hello,
I hope you are doing well. Yes definitely you can definitely get any IIIT or NIT with your 5K ranking of JEE Mains. For your reference I am attaching a link where you can find the list of NIT and IIIT you will get based on your ranking:
https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/resources/jee-mains-college-predictor?utm_source=connect&utm_medium=CR_JEECP&utm_campaign=7489993

Hello Kiran,
Registration date range for JoSAA counselling is from the second week of June to the last week of June 2018.

Hello,
I hope you are doing well. If you are talking about the B.Tech branches i.e. CS or IT then you should start with IIITs as they are having CS branch and after that NITs are having CS branch.