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Hello,
I am an Indian Citizen and am going for the US visit visa interview next week. To give my background, I'm a 28 year old software engineer. I did my Bachelors and Masters degree in US and worked in US for 3 years. So basically I went to US on an F1-visa in 2001 - and then worked on H1B from 2005 to 2008. I have both F1 and H1B visas stamped in my passport. In 2008 march, I resigned and came back to India to work on a startup idea along with my friends. We have launched our business about 1 month back.
Now I am planning to visit US for a week and hence am applying for the visit visa. Now as per the required documents, sometimes they ask for almost 3 years of bank statements. Most of my money is still in US and I'll be producing that bank statement. So some of the questions I had were regarding this:
1) On my bank account, I am the primary account holder, but its a joint account in which I've added my girl friend. Now in any bank statements I take, its going to show her name as well. How much of an issue is that. There's no way I can take her name off. So if asked by the interviewer, I can either say - she's a friend or girl friend or fiance. I dont know which option is the best and how that will influence the decision. My girl friend is a US citizen and I can produce her passport copy as evidence. So I wanted to know what is the best way to handle this situation?
2) Although I'm in India for a year, is it okay to produce a bank statement from US?
3) I'm self sponsoring myself - I've heard people say if you have someone sponsor you -you have a better chance of getting the visa. Is that true?
4) I'm going to show a $10,000 bank statement for a weeks trip - is that sufficient?
Thankyou for your responses.
I am an Indian Citizen and am going for the US visit visa interview next week. To give my background, I'm a 28 year old software engineer. I did my Bachelors and Masters degree in US and worked in US for 3 years. So basically I went to US on an F1-visa in 2001 - and then worked on H1B from 2005 to 2008. I have both F1 and H1B visas stamped in my passport. In 2008 march, I resigned and came back to India to work on a startup idea along with my friends. We have launched our business about 1 month back.
Now I am planning to visit US for a week and hence am applying for the visit visa. Now as per the required documents, sometimes they ask for almost 3 years of bank statements. Most of my money is still in US and I'll be producing that bank statement. So some of the questions I had were regarding this:
1) On my bank account, I am the primary account holder, but its a joint account in which I've added my girl friend. Now in any bank statements I take, its going to show her name as well. How much of an issue is that. There's no way I can take her name off. So if asked by the interviewer, I can either say - she's a friend or girl friend or fiance. I dont know which option is the best and how that will influence the decision. My girl friend is a US citizen and I can produce her passport copy as evidence. So I wanted to know what is the best way to handle this situation?
2) Although I'm in India for a year, is it okay to produce a bank statement from US?
3) I'm self sponsoring myself - I've heard people say if you have someone sponsor you -you have a better chance of getting the visa. Is that true?
4) I'm going to show a $10,000 bank statement for a weeks trip - is that sufficient?
Thankyou for your responses.
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