Finally got visitor visa for parent-in-laws after rejection

[desh_india]

Hi , My parent-in-laws B2 visa was rejected in MArch. What happened that time was VO just did not ask much questions. We had taken Marathi traslater in Mumbai consulate as we thought it would be easy for them to understand the question and explain the things. He asked what do they do, my father -in-lar is retired and mother-in-law is teacher. They asked for their income and just rejected visa. They did not bother to check any documents / ask more questions. Just rejected .............

After some research we understood that if u take translator then VO dont bother to ask u much questions.. they must be feeling why to ask translator then he would talk back and forth with VO and my in-laws.
We dont get change to talk to VO directly and VO also kind of hesitate to ask questions.

This time we did not take translator , we decided that even if there is some accent issue, my in-laws would ask to repeat question. They know basic english anyway.

We reduce the US stay period from 6 months to 3 months in visa form.
Then kept all the docs same. We had all the docs initially as well as mentioned on this website but none of the docs were asked for 1st time when visa was rejected.

This time visa officer asked question like who is in US, what is your occupation, how many months u want to stay.. my in-laws answered the question. They also told that we have all the docs like invitation letter, letter to consulate, i-134 and everything.

VO did not check any document but granted visa ...

We are very happy now.

So all those people whose parents B2 visa's is rejetced. please try this option, of not taking translator unless absolutely necessary. This helped us, atleast thats what we think.

[sanjaybhr]

Hello Desh, thanks for the information. That really give hopes to lot of people. Tell me some thing? If Father-In_law knows english & Mother-in-law does n't, then it is good idea to go for English? What I mean if one of them knows English, is it good enough?

[desh_india]

In our case it was similar case. My father-in-law is better in english speaking than mother-in-law. She knows basic english and what we did was she remembered some specific answers for typical questions they ask. Like what do you do ? How many months you want to go to US ? etc. They were worried about the accents of american Visa Officers. My father-in-law did most of the talking almost 80%.

We also thought , anyway visa was rejected before when we took appointment in Marathi language. They generally say that you should not try to take 2nd appt very early if there is not significant change in situation. But in our case, the situation was not going to change any soon, and we wanted to try to get their visa as soon as possible, so we went for this approach .... We applied after one after 1st rejection.

WE also observed that when translator is there, we even dont listen to what VO says, VO talks to translator who is on other side of window.

We also were told by couple of people that translator did some silly mistakes that caused visa rejections in very straight forward situation like inspite of having financial ties/ family ties in India.