Visitor Visa - B2

Hi All,
My parents went for B2 Visa Interview on Monday. It was quick and Simple. Below were the questions asked to them.

1. Which place you are going?
2. Who is sponsoring your visa?
3. What do you do? (to my Father)
4. Are you getting pension?
5. Do you own any property?

Their visas are approved.

Hi All,
Finally my parents visa got approved in Chennai after 2 rejections (214B) at Mumbai consulate.
Changes in case where - We showed his involvement in Farming and occupation as Agriculture.
Questions VO asked -
1. How long are you planning to go - 1.5 months
2. Who is sponsoring - Flight tickets self sponsored. Food, accomodation and insurance to be sponsored by son in US
3. Income? xxxxx annually
4. How many children you have? 2 - One in US
5. Why did your visa got rejected twice in Mumbai before? We didn't showed our farming involvement and annual income.

VO - Your visa is approved and you will receive it in next 8 days.

Hope this experience helps.
Thanks,
Sumeet

Hi All,

My in laws have got the visitor visa last Friday. They had interview in Delhi at 8:00 AM.

Questions asked:

VO: Since when is your son working?
MIL: 2005
VO: Which company?
MIL: XYZ Company (Gave company's name)
VO: What is his profession
MIL: Software Engineer
VO: Which visa does your son have
MIL: L1
VO to FIL: What is your profession?
FIL: Business
VO: Which business?
FIL: XYZ Business
VO: How many sons do you have?
FIL: 2
VO: Where is your other son?
FIL: India
VO to MIL again: What do you do?
MIL: I am a housewife
VO: We will send you..Visa approved
MIL and FIL: Thanks Sir

It was a very simple interview. He did not check a single document but they were prepared with all the required documents. Both MIL and FIL were very confident while answering.
IMMI site is an excellent help. Questions from this site helped a lot.

We are very happy. They received the passport today and 10 years visa has been granted.

Hi , My parents are going for Visitor Visa next month and my husband is sponsring their visa...Both myself and my sister are staying in US now. but I heard If we tell Visa Officer that both daughters are staying in US, It's difficult to get the Visa. Is it true? Can we say one daughter is staying in India now. Can some one let me know if you have similar experience.

My father went for a tourist visa and within 3 minutes he got it. The VO didn't ask for a single doc (how disappointing! we spent so much time on them). Here is how it went -

VO: How do you do?
Dad: Good, thank you!

VO: Why do you want to visit US?
D: My daughter is due to give birth next month.

VO: Why is your wife not going?
D: She is taking care of another grandchild here.

VO: Laughs! What does your son-in-law do?
D: Told

VO: Which company?
D: Told

VO: Since when is he there?
D: 1999

VO: What do you do?
D: I am a lawyer with the Supreme Court of India.

VO: You'll receive your passport in a week.

Myself, my wife and my mother in law went for visa interview on 12th July 2012 for visiting my daughter in USA. I am a retired person and since I have recently joined in a group company as consultant, I have not told about it in my interview and also I have not mentioned my wifes employment.

I want to reapply and let me guide whether I can give my wife employment in the application and also my consultant work. Please help me what answer can I give if they asked me why your visa has been rejected. Can I say that I have more information which I have failed to reveal in the 1st interview. Kindly help me since I want to go in for interview on 17th Aug. 2012.

Hi all,
My parents's visitor visa got approved. My father is into big scale farming and agriculture and mom is a home maker. The went for the visa interview today at Chennai consulate. Following are the questions they asked.


VO: What are you doing?
Ans: I'm doing farming and agriculture.

VO: What's your annual income?
Ans: 4 -5 lakhs per year.

VO: How may children you have?
Ans: 4 in Total. 1 in US and rest 3 in India.

VO: What's the purpose of your visit?
Ans: To visit my daughter and tourism.

VO: How long you're gonna stay in US?
Ans: 6-8 Weeks.

VO told them their visa will approved and can collect passport in a week.



Thanks to this forum.

Hi,
I want to thank everyone for their comments on the forum.

My mother got the visa approved for 10 years. This forum was useful in getting her prepared.

My brother lives in US with his family (Wife and two kids). My mother's visit was primarily to see the second child who is 9 months old. Challenge was that she does not know English. We asked for translator service and conduct the interview in Malayalam.

We were all nervous at the outset at the prospect of her having to manage the interview at the consulate on her own.

I was able to use this forum to prepare her for the following questions 2 weeks prior to the interview.

1) What is your name ?
2) Date of birth
3) Place of birth
4) Parent's and Spouse's names as on passport
5) Address

All the above to ensure she answers the details consistent with the that given in the passport

1) Who do you have in your family ?
2) What do they do ?
3) Why are you going to US ?
4) How long you are going for ?
5) Which place will you be going?
6) Who will taking the cost of accomodation and flight tickets etc.


My mother took the preparation very seriously. She even wrote down the question and answers and practiced it daily. I also quizzed her few times daily just to build her confidence.

All the answers practiced were truth.

I made sure she mentioned the fact that she was getting my late father's pension and that property in Kerala was in her name now and she had to return to take care of it also that one of her son was engaged to be married and marriage was in 3 month's time.

Interview was at Chennai Consulate. Since I was not allowed into the consulate I requested the person behind us to help her out with guiding her into the right queue and checking for token number once inside. Though i was not sure that would work. Turns out that he was a perfect gentleman and helped mummy out once inside. To the extent that he waited after his interview was over to help my mother out. I take this opportunity to thank this person from bottom of my hear through this forum since i did not see him afterwards.

My mother was the only one who was interviewed in Malayalam during that timeslot. They made the announcements in Malayalam which was good. Interview itself did not last very long. My mother was very confortable. Though some of her answers did bring smile to the interviewers :) ...

She carried following document in labeled document pack that i prepared

1) Copy of Application form and interview appointment letter
2) Copy of visa fee to HDFC
3) Property documents.
4) Invitation letters
5) Bank and tax details of my brother

Not all the documents were checked.

Following questions were asked before the visa was approved


1) Who do you have in your family ?
2) What do they do ?
3) Why are you going to US ?
4) How long you are going for ?
5) Which place will you be going? - Answer made them laugh.. she had hard time remembering Minneapolis, Minnesotta
6) Who will taking the cost of accomodation and flight tickets etc.
7) Where do you live in India? Is that ur own property ?

All in all the preparation and honesty was the key.

Good luck to all.

My father appeared for Visitor Visa Interview on 06th July in Delhi Consulate. The interview was pretty straight forward. Following questions were asked :

Where are you going?
Whom you are visiting?
What do you do?

Thats it. Visa arrived today for 10yrs Multiple entry

Hi,
My in-laws attended the interview today morning and were rejected saying no bank balance.

These were the questions asked:
1.visiting purpose?
-to visit daughter and son-in-law and for visiting places.

2.who do you do?
-Business.

3.income?
-Since my in-law has a small business, he answered slightly less Rs.2 lakhs as yearly income as he does not have any IT returns.

4.any bank balance/Fixed deposits?
-since he doesn't have any, he said NO.

since i'm the sponsor for my in-laws' visit, i gave all my required financial documents, showed more 17K savings and other things, i thought they would take my finances into consideration. They did not even allow my in-law to say anything after the last question. He wanted to say he has land, own house, shop and has daughter(married) with grand children and a young son (working) to get married. But they dint allow him to talk anything and said you are not qualified and dint see even one document. My in-law said 3 couples before him and 2 after him were all rejected and 3 of them had the same reason - bank balance!

I'm trying to re-apply in a couple of weeks again showing some bank balance.

My questions:
1. how soon or late do we need to apply again?
2.how much bank balance do my in-laws need to show?
3.what if only my mother-in-law appears for the second time? will she be rejected/?
4.will the chances to get the visa better if my in-laws show as self-sponsorers, instead of me being the sponsorer? If yes, how much finances do they need to show?

Please reply soon,
Thanks.