Visitor Visa - B2

hi guys I need the best advice from you. Kindly help me. I live in madrid and iam the permanent residence of spain. I want to apply b2 visa for tourism purposes.I have the permanent job contract with the salary of 1419 € per month. I have visited morocco uae Norway france.I have my relative (cousion) there. I will be sponsoring my self. Do I need to show his working H1 visa or not. What are my chances to get the visa.

Hi, I am 34 years old Filipina working in Malaysia as Senior Business Analyst for 2 years now. My Indian husband also works in I.T for more than 2 years in Malaysia.

I registered at Global Conference for Project management and chose 1 day conference.

The organization will send me the invitation soon. What are my chances to be approved? In the last five years or more I have been to Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Singapore, and recently India, Thailand and Singapore. I have also worked several years ago in Singapore and Japan.

I earn 32,000 USD annually. I can request a certificate of employment with my current salary from my employer and they can also provide me approval on 3 working days leave. I have few credit cards from both Malaysia and Philippines. My name is indicated in my husband's passport and I have our marriage certificate. I have my own house in the Philippines and I have a copy of Certificate of title under my name.

I will be travelling alone, if the officer will ask why alone, I will say because my husband is newly transferred to new company and he has no enough annual leave. Also, to help convince the officer that I will come back since I am married.

I am worried if the officer will ask, why are you attending the project manager conference if you are business analyst? My answer something like, "Because I am pursuing a project manager role in my current employer and currently I am reviewing project management certification and attending this global conference will help me to gain more skills that I can use in my current company when I'm back in Malaysia"

What do you think are my chances? Thank you in advance.

Hi -

My parents have applied to renew their b2 visa back in November 2016. It's still under administrative process. Does anybody know how long it takes these days?

Hello, I am an Indian national. My age is 24. I have applied for thee B-2 visa (visitor) along with my grandfather who is aged 86. He is eligible for the visa waiver program as his age is above 80. I have submitted our DS-160 forms and have payed the visa fees.

 I have a few questions regarding the process:

1. Can I opt for a family application even if my grandpa is eligible for the dropbox program (visa waiver)? If yes then will he be allowed to be present in the interview with me?

2. If my grandpa is not allowed to apply for the interview then, am I supposed to take his DS-160 application and passport with me in case the VO asks for his documents?

Thanks in advance!

Hello all,

I would like to share my recent B1/B2 visa application @USConsulate Toronto.

Background: My daughter and I were granted B1/B2 visas with 10 year validity by US Consulate Munich, Germany in Nov 2006. I decided to be proactive and applied for new visas of same category and appeared for Interview on the 2nd September 2016. I was confident to get the visas approved, as my wife got her B1/B2 without any issue at all from the same consulate. Besides, I myself am a veteran visa interviewee with 3 H1Bs and 2 B1/B2s. My daughter was not required to attend the interview as she was not yet 13.

I took all the documents indicated by instruction. In fact, I verified it multiple times. This was what transpired during the short interview

VO: How people are applying(After seeing two passports)?
Me: 2
VO: How many people are with you now?
Me: I am alone
VO: Why not the other person?
Me: Other applicant, not yet 13
VO: How long have you been living in Canada?
Me: I provide correct answer
VO: What is the purpose of your visit?
Me: Visit family
VO: How are you related?
Me: I explained the relation
VO: Do you have any other relatives in the US:
Me: No
VO: When do you plan to travel to US?
Me: Gave the dates
VO: Show me the last visa
Me: Showed the visa
VO: So this is a renewal?
Me: Yes(Feeling somewhat confident)
VO: What's your highest qualification?
Me: Provided the correct answer
VO: What was the main subject?
Me: Provided the correct answer
VO: Year of Graduation?
Me: Provided the correct answer
VO: Do you have your resume?
Me: No
VO: Says that further admin processing is needed and hands me a yellow slip with passports
Me: Said thanks and got out

Yellow slip asked me to submit my resume with all the work and education details Once home, I review my application. I did realize that I provided only scant information in The current and previous employment section, Something like Project management and coordination

Timeline:
Day and time of Interview: Sep 2 2016 12:00 PM(Friday)
Resume emailed: Sep 3 2016 at 9:07 AM
Automated acknowledgment email: Sep 3 2016 at 9:09 AM

Long labor day weekend

Acknowledgment email: Sep 6 2016 at 11:28 AM
Overcoming of 221g refusal and Email requesting passport: Sep 6 2016 4:37 PM (The document review and the overcoming took less than 8 business hours.)
Passports couriered by Canada post : Sep 7 2016 12:40 PM
Passports delivered to US consulate: Sep 9 2016 09:58 AM

Statuses changed to Issued : Sep 14&15 2016
Waybill #s provided by emails: Sep 15 & 16 2016
Delivery notification from Canadian Post: Sep 16 & 20 2016
Passport collected form Canadian Post: Sep 20 2016

Conclusion:
the document list are not complete, please take all the documents possible.

Never take visa application for granted, don't assume anything. In my case The mistake was that I assumed the work history is not important for a visitor visa application. I advise those who apply to fill each section truthfully and completely.

With hindsight, I guess all the VO was looking for was the work history part which was largely missing. Initial questions were just to establish my bonafides. I also suspect they preview of all the Applications before the interviews and have their questions ready. Interview is all about Providing the applicant with the opportunity furnish the missing pieces.

Good news: 221g yellow slip denotes somewhat of a minor Issue with the application, most probably handled by the consulate itself. Caveat, I am not a lawyer, but after doing extensive research, that is my considered opinion.

Hello,

After reading and getting help on immihelp, we had a sucessful interview for my in-laws and wanted to share that experience with others that may be in the same situation.

The interview was done at the mumbai consulte with a gujarati interpreter.

Day 1: Had the biometrics appointment. In and out in 15 minutes.

Day 2: Interview

FIL: Good Morning
VO: Good Morning

VO: Why are you going to US?
FIL: We are going to see my daughter, son-in-laws and their children

VO: Where does your son-in-law work?
FIL: xxxxx

VO: What does he do?
FIL: xxxxxx

VO: Your visa is approved and you can pick up passport at the location you put down.

They were only asked 3 questions and that's it. I was suprised nothing else was asked as I read about many other cases on here.

I need a persuasive answer please for the reason of rejection in my interview..

Officer: where will you stay in the US?

Me: 5 days in New York, 5 days in Washington and finally 5 days in Florida.

Officer: vacations?

Me: Yes

Officer: your parents will fund this trip, right?

Me: Yes

Officer: Do you have family in US?

Me: No

Officer: Do you have friends in US?

Me: Yes one friend in Pennsylvania

Officer; will you visit them?

Me: I'm not sure because Pennsylvania is far from New York by several hours.

Officer: Have you traveled abroad before?

Me: No

Officer: Are you student?

Me: Yes in pharmacy

Officer: which year?

Me: I've just finished my third year.

Officer: sorry you are ineligible for the visa u can reapply later

Me: Ok

Hey, I am opting for USA visitor visa on this 24 July.

I am planning to visit for the purpose of tourism, where for the question about why you want to visit US, my answer would be for the purpose of Honeymoon where my marriage is dated 23 Novemmber 2017.

I registered intended date of visiting to be 15 december 2017.

My current salary is 6.60 Lac annually.

My fiance already have US Travel Visa. She runs a center for disable kids to make them learn technology.

Few questions are
1) Is it Ok to say a visit reason to be Honeymoon?
2) Would my income match the specific needs for finance?
3) Do I need to show sufficient balance in my statement ? How much approx.
4) Would I need any details of my fiancee ? Like, her passport number, her center details.
5) For someone in USA, I have entered details of my fiancee sister staying in Springfield. Would I need any details of them except name and address and what they do ?
6) I have just visited Singapore and Malaysia once in 2006, would that make any difference?
7) I have not planned trip itinerary yet, would that make any difference?

Hello. How are you all? hope will fine. I want to ask you a question. I have applied for B1 B2 visa with two of my dependents. Alongwith my two brother in laws too have applied.In the beginning we took help of a travel agent for applying. Afterwards we end up with the agent and planned to apply ourselves. Agent was trying to cancel our appointment by taking the login IDs access in his hand by calling on embassy customer care by updating new login id. With this fear i mailed at support-india@ustraveldocs with our issue. we didn't receive any reply from embassy. Then i kept calling on embassy helpline regarding this issue. Even i called 10-15 times per day. From the same number i called on my brother in law's behalf. After many days i received call from Embassy on that number..they investigated me like FBI..they talked with me approximately 30 minutes . They asked me many questions like why I'm calling on the behalf of other two applications.. Then they said that they have locked our all login accounts..now i want to ask that will it leave a impact on our interviews or not? I'm worried about it.. please help me

Hi there,

I have applied B1/B2 visa 3 years back, first two times (i re-applied in 2 weeks gap) my B1/B2 rejected and next time (after 6 months) i applied again and it got approved. I have traveled to US twice in between for office related work and came back to India within 3 weeks both the time.
I'm going to apply for PhD course coming Fall, and would be applying for F1 visa. Could anyone help me with the following questions:

1. Will it be a problem to get F1 since my B1/B2 rejected twice?
2. Do i need to be mindful about anything while appearing for Visa interview?

Thanks