Visitor Visa - B2

in DS160 THERE IS A COLUMN IN WHIC "WERE YOU PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED "IF APPLICAABLE MENTIONED LAST FIVE YEARS DATAIL .SIR IF I WANT TO FILL DS 160 IS IT COLUMN AAPPLICABLE FOR ME R NOT?
IAM DOING THE GOVT LECTUER FOR LAST 14 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF APPOINTMENT IAM IN THE SAME COLLEGE AND UPTO RETIREMENT I MAY BE IN SAME COLLEGE AND IAM HAVING 20 MORE YEARS OF SERVICE.
BOZ IN THT COLUMN EMPLOYEMENT FROM:
EMPLOYEMENT TO:
IN THIS COLUMNS WHAT I HAVE TO MENTIONED
EMPLOYEMENT FROM :DATE OF APPOINTMENT
EMPLOYEMENT TO : RETIREMENT DUE DATE
PLS CLARIFY MY DOUBT

Hello ... i went for interview on 4th of April ... for B2 Visa ... i am 25 , single.

interviewer was a pretty lady .. and my interview was in MUMBAI.


1) why do u want to go to USA ??
A) to Visit my Brother and his family and tourism purpose.

2) What is he doing there ??
A) i said : He is working with listed MNC YYYY headquartered in Virginia as a System Developer.

3) What r u doing here ??
A) i am looking after our business of YYYY in Ahmedabad.

4) from When did u started to handle the business ?
A) Since last 14 months.

5) When did ur business start ?
A) i said its a business established by my father in 1985.

6) What is u do exactly in your business ( her meaning was about to know my product)
A) i Explain my list of products and its applications. in just two sentence.

7) When did your brother go to USA ?
A) 2005

8) he is on Which visa ??
A) i said : hes on valid H1B.

9) ohh so Why did not you apply earlier ? why now ? ur brother is there in USA since 8 years .. so u cud have applied earlier.
A) I said madam : at that time my Bachelors was going on , i completed in 09, then i after i started job in YYYY with a BOND of 3 years .. last year i completed my bond .so i resigned because i need to handle our business as my father was alone.

10) Wts your earning ?
A) XX lac.

11) Whts ur Company's Annual Sales ?
A) XX Lac.

12) Did ur parents ever went to USA or any other country ??
A) i sad yes : in 2009 they went to USA for 1.5 months.

13) Will you come back ??
A) Obviously yes madam.

  
All above conversation last for a single minute only. coz our conversation was very fast. and point to point. no extra information.

she said : your visa has been approved : enjoy ...
next day i got my passport stamped with 10 years visa of multiple entry. (usual one)

I need to pay $160 for B2 visa. Please let me know if my visa if refused then the fee is refundable or not.

Hi,

Sharing my parents visa experience mainly because cases similar to my parents considered as weak case.

Background:- I am wife of US Citizen residing in USA on Green Card for the past 6 years. My Dad is Retired with very less pension and average financial condition. My Mom is Housewife having entire family in India with my 2 other siblings. I was the sponsor.

Interview was at US Embassy New Delhi on April 1st, 2013 at 8.30AM in Hindi.

Took almost 1-1.5hrs for all the process.

Question Asked to my mom:

1. Who lives in US? Daughter
2. What does your Daughter do? in XYZ company as ABC
3. What does your son-in-law do? in XYZ company as ABC
4. For how many years she is in US? apprx. 6 yrs

Question Asked to my dad:

1. Where you used to work? in XYZ company
2. What you used to do there? as ABC
3. For how long you want to go there? 3 months

And the VO said your visa is granted and handed them a green slip which has written your visa has been approved after receiving sms/email pick-up your passport at VFS.

The VO herself was asking questions in hindi & None of the documents got checked by VO. I posted this because I hardly find positive experiences for GC sponsor for Retired parents. I hope my post will give hope to all those applicant with weak cases.
Now waiting for my parents Passport, hopefully within 2-3 days we should get it. Thanks to this site, it is indeed very helpful.
And All the best to all applicants. Tips: be confident, honest also pratice frequently asked questions by giving mock interview :)

I had my interview in Abu Dhabi Embassy at 28/03/2013
VO= How are you today Sir
Me =Fine
VO= Y U Want to go USA?
Me=For Tourism
VO=Where u want to go?
Me=New York
VO= How Long you are in UAE and what you do?
Me=7 years and i m a Civil Engineer
VO=Do you Have letter from Company
Me= Shown +Bank Statement +Credit Card+UAE Exchange Record who money i was sending my Home country
VO= you r sending lot of money to ur family your are a good guy
Me= Thank you
VO= Type something and ask me how many days you want to go and when ?
Me=11 Days and on 8May
Vo=Given me Yellow Slip and said this is your online case No 2013xxxxxxx and check after 3 days anser the question and after that required documents send us thru Empost we will pay for Empost
NOW i am confused online what chances i have ?
Sombody can tell me now i will get visa ?
what question they can ask ?
i took a lot of documents but he didnt ask any one

My parents appeared for their B2 Visitor visa at Chennai yesterday and it was approved. The interview was very easy and smooth.
I wanted to share the experience so that it might be helpful for others.


We had scheduled OFC(finger printing and photo) appointment a day before the visa interview.

At OFC, though it was a single appointment for my parents, they were called upon to different counters and they had to show 1. Copy of the appointment letter 2. Passport 3. DS 160.

My parents are pretty comfortable in speaking and understanding English but still we had scheduled Tamil interview to avoid any accent troubles.
There were not many Tamil translators available and they had to wait for about 45 minutes for their turn. When they were called at the counter, there was just the American interviewer and my parents were eagerly looking for the translator.To their surprise, the American interviewer started speaking in Tamil (broken Tamil, of course). Now the interesting part was my parents started responding in English.


Visa Interview:
Parents:Good Morning Officer
Officer: Smiles and greets. Keeps looking at his system for about 2 minutes and my parents were worried.
Officer: How many daughters do you have?
Dad: 2 daughters
Officer: Where do they live?
Dad: They are in America.
Officer: For how long are you going to stay?
Dad: We are going to stay for 3 months.
Officer: Where will you be living
Dad: We will be living in Texas.
Officer: Your visa is approved.
Parents: Thank you and smile
Officer: Wide smile


Good luck for everybody!

Hello,
             This is my experience on B2 Visa at Hyderabad Consulate in May 2012,we've applied for a B2 visa for a month's vacation to the US.four of us together have applied as a family.

                         MY MOM AND DAD GOT THEIR VISA ACCEPTED.BUT ME AND MY BROTHER (we are just in our teens)GOT OUR VISAS REJECTED STATING THE REASON OF PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS..

                                Interview went pretty smooth.Was done in around 3 minutes.Most the questions were asked to our parents.And i was asked only one question.WHAT I WAS DOING.?

                                                    I'ed love to visit US for this vacation.
                                CAN I REAPPLY FOR THE VISA ,WHAT ARE MY CHANCES. I'm in my Undergrad college and i have to finish my course.I'M GENUINE AND I WILL COME BACK.BUT HOW DO I PROVE IT .

                                                         CAN YOUNG AND UNMARRIED GET VISITING VISAS?
                                                  WOULD THIS REJECTION TROUBLE ANY OF FUTURE WITH OTHER TYPES OF VISAS?

                                               PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS,ANY ADVICE WOULD BE WELCOMED
                                                                                                                      THANK YOU..

Very simple . No single document checked .
Questions to my Father :
1)why u r going to USA ?
2)How may kids you have ?
3)where is you elder daughter and what she is doing ?
4)what do you do ?
5)How many acres of land you have ?
6)do you have own house ?

Since my father is a farmer VO asked about land details . No questions to mother .
VO did nt asked for any douments , my father is trying to show them the docs which i sent along with property docs , But VO refused and said not required .
Hope this info helps to the people who are going for Visitor visa stamping !

First of all thank you immihelp.com for making such a worderful site, which is mentioning each and every thing about visa in detail.

Me & my wife applied for US visitor visa to attend marriage of my cousin brother. Finger print scan and photo was on 17-03-2013 and it was completed in less than 5 mins but waiting time for our turn was around 15-20mins.

on 18-03 we went for interview at US consulate at New Delhi. I was little worried as my present salary is around Rs. 25000/ and agricultural income is around Rs. 2.5 lac per year. I thought it will create problem.

We had the following supporting documents:

1) I 134 form
2) My Uncle 2 year bank statement
3) Their last 3 year tax returns
4) Letter of invitation & Cousin's Wedding cards

Me & My Wife's Documents

1) My present and all previous job related letters
2) Our Salary Slips
3) Leave sanction Letters
5) All Bank statement & FD
6) Agricultural Land Valuation Letter and Form J ( agricultural Income Proof slips of last 2 years)
7) Photographs of us with Uncle and Aunt

Our appoint was at 9.30 am. After waiting for 45 min we had our interview. The following questions were asked;-

US: Good Morning Madam
VO: Good Morining

VO: Your purpose of visit to US?
US: To attend my of My Cousin brother

VO: Duration of our stay in US
US: 2-3 weeks

VO: What is he doing?
US: He is a doctor.

Again VO: What is he doing?
US: He is a doctor - Orthopedics.

VO: Are you employed?
ME: Yes, working as YYYY in XYZ Company and looking after my agricultural land

VO: For how long?
ME: From july, 2013

VO: So you are recently employed?
Me: No madam its my third job and mentioned why i have left my previous job.

VO: Your total Job experience?
ME: 4 years. (mentioned my all previous jobs and my designations)

VO: to my wife: Are you employed?
My WIfe: Yes, i am working as school teacher in xyz school from past 2 years

VO: have you ever been to abroad?
ME: No madam

VO: Is Uncle sponsoring for your trip?
ME: They are going to take care about our stay and food in US but we will be arranging air tickets ourselves.

Then she handed us a GREEN SLIP and said congratulation your visa has been approved....

She didn't even checked any of our papers not a single one.

I would once again thank immihelp staff and all those who have posted their experiences on this site which have helped us to get US visa.

For those who are going to apply for visa, from my experience i would like to suggest that:

1) Always fill true information in your DS-160 Form
2) If you have recently joined a new job do mention details of all your previous jobs.
3) Be confident and always speak truth during the interview.
4) It might be that they will not see any of your document (like in our case) but you should have all documents with you to support what you have mentioned in your DS 160 form or any information which you are going to provide them. If you have genuine document with you, your confidence level will definitely be very high.
5) Above all always Pray...

Thanks & Regards

Hi, we were in for a shocking rejection this morning. Three of us (my wife, 16 month old daughter, and myself) had applied as group for a tourist visa for holiday and visit our sister in law who's a permanent resident living in New Jersey. Duration of stay was 3 weeks.

While the treatment given to us due to a child in hand was excellent, the interview was rather depressing.

After asking purpose of visit and my business related queries, he turned to the wife
Asked her specific questions about her sister in USA and current status
Then asked about her work profile and on discovering she has resigned from work post the baby's birth, became more curious,
Asked her further own her intentions to join work again, and she replied in the affirmative when the toddler joins school.

Based on the above answers the officers nodded, and handed over the 214(b) rejection slip stating unfortunately they can't grant us to visa this time,

We are still trying to figure out what went wrong, Any suggestions on when to reapply??