Visitor Visa - B2

Thank you for sharing lots of information..This site is very useful and I recommend both the sponsor and visitor to read this before visa interview..

Ganapathi

My Mother in law got visa for ten years.
Immihelp website was very much helpful for sending all the required documents.

My mother in law attended interview on 29th Dec 2003.
Here is the list of questions asked by
consulate officer in english translator was there for telugu interview.

1) Who is there in US?
2)What is the age of your daugher?
3)What is the age of your husband?
4) What is he doing ? How long he is having the service in government?
5) Why he is not coming?
6)what is the age your son?
7) do you have your daugher's passport copy?
My mother in law replied all the answers very confidently in telugu,they asked her to pay the fees for visa.

Thankyou very much for this website.

Got 10Years B1/B2 Visa:
My wife Applied for B1/B2 visa (VISITOR FOR PLEASURE) for 6 months. The sponsor is my
Son-in-law, who is in Texas,USA. We collected all the required Sponsor’s documents and submitted all the documents in one folder for verification purpose. Bank Papers,Tax Statements,Salary Stub,Educational US Evaluation were returned immediately on receipt of it , but other documents like Letter to Consulate, Invitation Letter, Employer’s letter,I-134 ,(I-94 / I-129 / I-797A-all in one page),Sponsor’s Passport Copy, Birth Certificate, Marriage Registration were returned after 15 minutes.(I presume they would have taken the copies through their scanning machine). Passport and Ds-156 were not returned on the day of interview.
In the interview questions like, who is in US? , How long they(Daughter & SIL ) stay in US? , Who will take care of your family in India during your absence period ? Why husband is not accompanying you ? were asked. After answering the simple questions , my wife was asked to pay Rs. 2300 in the adjancent counter, which is visa issuance fee. Other Two Fees like Rs.400 and Rs.4600 were also paid prior to the interview.
After 24 hours she got her passport with visa stamping for 10 years-B1/B2 , through local courier. Thanks to the website , which helped us to face the interview with 100% confidence.
31-Dec-2003, Aravamudhan, Chennai600 043.

Thanks to immihelp, my parents got 10yr visitor visa from Chennai. This site really helps in preparing the right documents needed. Thanks once again.

Details:
My parents applying for the first time had to take an appointment since my mom is not yet 60 yrs old. The appointment was at 10:45 am. At the first counter they were asked to pay tts fee(Rs:400) and at the next counter my parents gave the document folders to the rep. and she took the following;
1. DS 156 forms
2. I-134 forms
3. Demand drafts
4. Personal affidavit (one for each candidate). In this we mentioned the worth of our property(movable&immovable) and also that my parents have another son living with them.
5. Documents that i sent; financial/bank statements, salary certificate, pay slips, invitation letters(addressed to consulate and to my parents), birth certificate and passport photocopy
6. In addition to this, i had included another letter addressed to the consulate stating that though i'm a permanent resident, i dont have the plastic card(green card) yet but the I-551 stamping on my passport is tantamount to having a green card. I included the photocopies of my I-551 stamping along with this letter.

They were given a token and were asked to wait. Since they needed a Tamil translator their turn for the interview came only at 1:15pm. The following were the questions asked;
1. Who do u want to visit in USA?
2. How long does your son have his green card?
3. How long r u planning to stay? (6 months was the answer)
4. How many children do u have?
5. Where does your second son stay?
6. How old is he?
7. (Since my father is retired the officer asked the following questions to him);
a. Where did u work b4 retiring?
b. Do you receive pension? (My father answered in negative)
c. How much were u getting paid before retirement?

Then they were told that they've been granted visa and were asked to pay the visa issuance fee.

Thanks a lot to this forum. My parents attended interview on Dec 16th in Chennai and next day they got their passport with 6 months visa.

First they attended interview on July 1st and got rejected by 214B.
2nd time attended interview on Sep 8th and got rejected by 214B.
First 2 times, I have sponsored for my parents, we were in EAD and we asked for 6 months VISA. 3rd time my hubby sponsored for them , we got our GC and we asked for 3 months VISA.


Q> Who do you have in USA
A> Daughter

Q> Who is sponsoring you
A> Son-in-law

Q> Why do you want to go to USA
A> Tourism

Q> How long do you want to visit USA
A> 3 months

Q> 3 months is too much. What you are going to do?
A> Both r working so we will visit places on weekends and long weekend

Q> Do you have any family/relatives in India
A> My daughters, son-in-law and other relatives

My aunt got 10 years visa yest'day.

I sent all the documents as per info from immihelp. and property documents etc. also collected questions from FAQ and this experience board, and prepared her.

She was inside for 1 hour. they just asked 4 questions and they were related.

questions were:
who is in usa?
why is ur husband not going with u?
how many sons you have?
what do they do?

She said they were asking more questions for couples, and people speaking in english.

They said, they will be giving the visa, and asked to pay the issuance DD. they didn't say how many months.

but when she received her passport, it shows 10 years. She wanted to come here only for 4 months, and i mentioned 6 months in DS-156.

my aunt has 2 sons, and consulate was sure of returning to India.

i can help if you need any info via mail

I want to thank immihelp for the this website. Without the information from this website , we would have been clueless.

Here are some info from their interview.
This is the first time they applied for. My father is 63 yrs and my mother is 59 yrs old. So we had to take appointment for an interview. I took the web appt on Oct 30th and got the first date as Dec 1st in regional language. They are coming because I am pregnant, but did not mention this anywhere.

We prepared all the documents according to the information from this website. My parent's travel agent just added a cover letter on top of that.

The scheduled time for interview was at 10.30. They entered the consulate 15 minutes earlier. Gave the TTServices service fee at the first counter. Second counter , they were asked for application fee and documents. They gave the complete folder and the lady took the ones she needed and gave back others. Gave a token to them for the interview.According to my mother, they did not even look at the property statements!

But they had to wait till 2.30 pm for the actual interview as they needed a malayalam translator. They were asked only 3 questions.
1. How long were daughter staying in US?
2. How come you did not go before ?
They said they wanted to retire comfortably before thinking about it.
3. What is the relationship between you too ? (!)

Then he said visa is been sanctioned, pay the issuance fee.

They had the interview on Dec 1, got the passport on Dec 4th.

Thanks again immihelp.

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 My Parents visa got approved today. First of all many thanks to this forum . Their appointment was at 9.30 but were called at 2.30. My dad said they call randomly once they take u inside the office. They looked very carefully at sponsor's document and was not returned back to my parents.

Question asked
Q Why do u want to go to USA?
A tourism

Q for how long?
A 1 month ( i purposely told my dad to ask for one month only because anyway stay get decided at POE)

Q Why do u want to go for such a short period?
A. Because i have business here and need to come back also We have a unmarried son and need look bride for him.

Q Are u planning to work there?
A no

Q Will u come back alone and is your wife planning to stay there?
A No we both want to go together and come together in one month.

Officer - You getting visa for 6 months

-monu

My In laws got visa for 3 months and at POE they got 6months.

Is their any way I can send their passport for multiple visas over USA.

Hi,

My mother's (widow) visitor visa application was rejected twice. First time in the month of May '03 and second time on Nov '03.

When they refused first time , it was because of 'insufficnet document'(my H1B extension pettion - 221 g). When I took another appointment this November and gave all the documents with my revalidated passport copy, H1B petition, etc,.

This second time she was asked bunch of questions like:

1. How do you convince that you will be returning back to India after the visit to USA? - My daughter and brother are here working and have to return back.
2. When did your son visit you to last time? - more than 2 years

Her application was rejected under 214(b).I was expecting that she would be asked to show the 'missing document' from the first interview and we were very much disappointed because of the rejction.

Additional Info:

My mother is getting TN govt family pension which she mentioned in the interview also.

But she was not carrying any bank statement or land document for the second interview.

Can I reapply again for the visitor visa after few months(March or April '04) using drop box facility? If so , will couple of lakks in the bank deposit in her name or land document will increase the chance of getting her visa?

thanks in advance,
Sridharan