Department of Immigration Services

07/04/2025

Department of Immigration Services

06/04/2025

“I APPLIED FOR AN F-1 VISA TWICE AND WAS DENIED UNDER SECTION 214(B), AND NOW I AM A DV2023 SELECTEE. IS THIS GOING TO AFFECT MY DIVERSITY VISA INTERVIEW?”

No, no. It will just tell the consular officer that s/he was right to refuse you the nonimmigrant visa; you wanted to immigrate, and now you can do it easily.

Kindly Regards,
Department of Immigration Services

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30/03/2025

DV LOTTERY? I AM A GIRL WHO WON THE 2025 LOTTERY, BUT WHOEVER FILLED OUT MY DATA IN OCTOBER 2023 MADE A MISTAKE AND PUT A PICTURE OF MY BROTHER’S WIFE AND NOT MY PICTURE. HOW DO I ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM?

Sure it was a mistake. You don’t know what you look like in a digital photo?

Sorry, you are about to endure the worst regret possible. You won the lottery and now that win will be snatched away from you because you did not follow the instructions precisely. I seriously doubt you made a “mistake”. People don’t make mistakes like that especially when they let you preview this stuff before submission.

As others state, you can seek an interview. But you’ll be rejected because you did not provide truthful and accurate information about you.

I am certain there was some motivation for you doing so but I don’t believe for a second it was a mistake. Oh, it is certainly a mistake now that you’re going to lose the win and endure the results but at the time, no, I don’t believe it was an accident. There was some intent behind it. Only you know what it is.

Kind regards,
Department of Immigration Services

29/03/2025

WHY DON’T SOME VISA OFFICERS EVEN TAKE A LOOK AT THE APPLICANT’S PAPERWORK, BUT JUST DENY HIM THE VISA AFTER JUST 2 QUESTIONS?

If you are asking about US visas, then as I and others have already answered here many, many times, there is no ‘paperwork’ required for any nonimmigrant visa except that which is specified, such as a valid I-20 form for a student visa.

Documents such as invitations from friends or relatives in the US, guarantees from those individuals that they will feed and house you, bank and property statements, and any other paperwork, is not needed or wanted. If they are even valid (many are counterfeits and forgeries, and not even very skillful ones) such documents are not legally enforceable and there are, of course, such things as international money transfers: it’s not like a visa applicant would have to go back home to obtain his own money. And most property claims are for land or buildings owned by the entire family.

Every visa applicants just needs more than one very good reason to travel to the US now, and more than one to leave again. The more the papers, the worse the case, in many cases.

Kind regards,
Department of Immigration Services

21/03/2025

I SPENT FOUR MONTHS IN THE US WITH MY B2 VISA. ON MY RETURN, I TOOK MY FAMILY TO THE EMBASSY FOR AN INTERVIEW. IN THE PROCESS, MY VISA WAS CANCELLED. DO I STAND A CHANCE OF GETTING ANOTHER VISA?

You spent four months in the US, supposedly as a tourist. This means that you had nothing else to do at home for a third of a year. No school, no profession, no family responsibilities. You finally went home, but apparently did that only to collect your family and immediately return to the US, taking them with you. The consular officer refused your family’s applications and cancelled your visa as well. This makes perfect sense to anyone who isn’t an apologist for 214(b)s.

Kind regards,
Department of Immigration Services

19/03/2025

WHAT DOES A CONSULAR OFFICER SEE ON HIS SCREEN WHEN HE ENTERS THE PASSPORT NUMBER OF AN APPLICANT? CAN HE SEE REMARKS BY THE FORMER CONSULAR OFFICER WHO PREVIOUSLY REFUSED THE VISA?

The Embassy and the Consular Officer have access to a gigantic, humongous database called CLASS. When you submitted your DS-160 all that information was matched with the database. They already know more about you than your Mother does.

When you reach the window you will give your appointment slip, with photo ID, your passport, with photo ID and the officer, matches all these up with the person at the window and the person in the photo on the computer. Your Passport chip also contains access to all your comings and goings and a photo ID.

Consider the interviewing officer may see 100 people that day. For an eight hour day, with time off for lunch, breaks and some other activities, the official might have a little less than six hours at the window. Six hours is 360 minutes divided by 100 people equals 3.6 minutes (three and a half minutes per person.) They don’t have a lot of time. They want to see all the people with appointments that day, they don’t want you to come back tomorrow, and they don’t want to work overtime. This interview is going to be very brief.

You will get two maybe three questions to determine your intent. 1. What is the purpose of your visit to the US? (What do you intend to do when you get there.) 2. Maybe a question about how is this going to be paid for and, 3. Do you intend to come back home after?

The consular officials receive extensive training in body language and human behavior. They are human lie detectors. They have seen everything and heard everything.
Kind Regards,
Early US Visa Appointment Assistant.

13/03/2025

WILL THE USA CONSULAR OFFICER CONTACT THE PERSON INVITING ME IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE OR AFTER MY INTERVIEW?

There is no need for an invitation from the US in order to apply for a US visa, and no, the consular officer will not contact anyone who sends you one. Any such invitation is not wanted or needed by the officer; it simply wastes a bit of time for him/her to glance at it and then return it to you. No such document is legally enforceable, even if it is genuine - many are not - so it is of no help. The visa applicant alone must convince the officer that he has good reason to visit the US, and good reason to return home.

Kind regards,
Early US Visa Appointment Assistant.

10/03/2025

MY F-1 VISA WAS DENIED BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIES IN MY COUNTRY. CAN SOMEONE HELP?

You don't need “ties to your home country”. The requirement is “a residence abroad that you don't intend to abandon” and the spirit of the law is that you prove to the visa officer's satisfaction that you will leave the United States when your studies are complete.

Just leaving mom and dad behind isn't enough. If your American education looks like it is going to bankrupt them, you'll never get that visa.

Unless you truly are a borderline candidate (and no one would tell you if you were), you generally can't talk your way into this.

They want to see a realistic plan, not hear, “It is my dream to come to the USA!” - because it is the USA's dream that you'll come, drop some money, and go home. If you use your education to make your own country better or to facilitate trade and diplomatic relationships, that's even better.

Kind regards,
Early US Visa Appointment Assistant.

09/03/2025

MY USA B2 (VISITORS) VISA WAS DENIED TWICE, BUT NOW THE SITUATION IS CHANGED. WILL IT AFFECT MY SPOUSAL VISA?

If your B2 visa applications were refused under section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, that will have no effect on an immigrant visa, since the prior refusals were because the interviewing officer wasn’t convinced that you weren’t an intending immigrant. If you are now applying to immigrate, that simply confirms the prior judgement

Kind regards,
Early US Visa Appointment Assistant.

04/03/2025

MY US F1 VISA GOT REJECTED. THE INTERVIEWER ASKED ME, WHAT’S YOUR PLAN AFTER YOUR STUDIES AND I REPLIED, I PLAN ON DOING AN INTERNSHIP TO GAIN SOME EXPERIENCE AND RETURN BACK. SHOULD I HAVE NOT SAID THAT?

Applicants tend to give too great weight to the last question asked. That's almost certainly why you believe it was “the decider.”

That answer in itself probably didn't tank your application, but it certainly was weak and didn't help. If it's indicative of your approach, yeah, it seems doomed.

The actual point of the question is: what you intend to do when you leave America with an American education? What's your long-term intent at this time? How does everything tie together into a reasonable life plan?

So a good answer for someone might be: “while I imagine coming home and being a game developer, there are a million people calling themselves a game developer in India, so what I really expect is to look for a job in Mumbai working for an international bank. You probably know Mumbai is the financial centre of India, and of growing international importance as Japan and Korea struggle, China looks inward, and Hong Kong becomes just another Chinese city. A US degree and fluency in American English will be a major advantage and income boost, especially as Britain fades in importance.”

And you said: “stay longer, then leave.”

See the difference? Yes? No?

ADD: most answers appear to misunderstand the “internship” aspect of the interview response.

Every country except the US offers some temporary post-graduation work visa/permit.

It's simply too much work to create a new US visa/status. And it creates more paperwork.

So instead, the US allows the same work opportunity as other countries in the guise of OPT under student status. Every qualifying graduate is eligible to continue on in OPT. It is in no way an inadmissibility.

But it's like saying “I’d like to continue on in a Master's program.” It's neither a negative nor a positive. It's an aspirational irrelevancy.

The question is about after you're done as a student, then what? Your OPT “internship” is still being a student.

Kind regards,
Early US Visa Appointment Assistant.

28/02/2025

SOMETIMES THE US COUNSELOR DOESN’T ASK THE APPLICANT ANY QUESTIONS AND ISSUES A VISA. WHY?

Sometimes there is no need to ask a visa applicant any questions after an initial greeting. If - just for example - the person has a long history of regular short visits to the US and the application form says s/he will be continuing that pattern, any question would probably be a waste of time.

It is a little-known fact that a complete US visa interview can consist of nothing more than, “Good morning, Mr. Patel/Singh/Seko/Kabila. Your visa will be ready on Friday.

Kind regards,
Early US Visa Appointment Assistant.