Visitor Visa Experiences

I am on L1B and traveled to US in Sep'11. I am planning to invite my father for a 3 months trip to US. My mother is no more. I will be the sponsor for this trip. I am unmarried.


My father is a Chartered Accountant and running a CA Firm as Proprietor (Single Owner). He has no employees working under him. He owns a independent house and decent fund holdings in bank. In my family, I am single son and have three sisters. All my sisters are married.


How should I make my father prepared for this Visa Interview ? How to show my father's strong ties to India? How to describe his employment as it does not reflect any bindings with India. Please advise.

iam going to appear for us interview along with my parents, my brother works in dubai. iam 19 years old , will i get the visa because of my age ??

Myself and my husband had an appointment at Mumbai consulate on 26th April for visitor's visa. The VO asked only few questions regarding the sponsor, our education, occupation and did not ask for any documents. To our knowledge we answered all the questions nicely and to her satisfaction, and she had no queries or doubts about our answers. Yet we received a green 221g form. We have no idea why this was given to us? It is similar to Pink form issued from Delhi consulate, (actually on web site there is no mention of green form in Mumbai consulate). in this form there is a column asking for our research activities and whether we are going to conduct any research in US. My husband is a research scientist and I am also PhD, but presently not involved in any research project. We explained in that column that our purpose of visit is purely touring.

How long will it take for this administrative processing?

Any experience on this issue?

Hi,
I got a B1/B2 VISITOR's Visa with my family. My bro-in-law who lives in New Jersy had sent the invitation letter to us. We have planned to depart by the end of this month. We are planning to visit our other relatives first and then later we will go to New Jersy. Is it mandatory to go to New Jersy from here or we can go to Washington where our other relatives are there and then later go to New Jersy. I heard that the Immig officer at Port of Entry may send back to India because of a different port of entry.
Plz suggest

we, myself,wife my 2nd son intend to visit USA to meet 1st son working with cognizant tech , on invitation from him. But visa was granted to both parents, denied to 2nd son aged 20rs 11 months studying 6th sem of engg. even though :--
1.1st son invited and assured sponsor the tour. for all three.
2.my self working in Bank and Bank had declared to sponsor the travelling expenses for all the three. under Leave travel concessions. which consulate staff did not understand the meaning at all.
3 my self annual income is more than 6 lacks
4.As there was sufficiant evidence that he had to attend his study min of one more year is a must.
5.the property interests had with the family members was no taken account while deciding the visa
6. neither documents were saught for verification nor verified, before taking decisions.
7. since this was visitor visa requests, could have decided little more relaxably, as is affected a family trips.
8 we seek the consulate to be transperent in decisions of denial of visa

Hi

My B1 Visa got approved. But the date of birth in the DS160 is wrong. The VFS person found the mistake. But he then allowed me to proceed to the visa interview.
Any one knows, if the VFS officer can fix the date of birth. If not why did he allow me to the visa interview.
How can we get this fixed. I need to fly in next couple of days.

My mother has visited US for about 9times as her other children are citizens there. She even surrendered her egreen card as she was unable stay there for long. After visiting several times, when she went for renewal of visitor visa , she was denied with the reason that she overstayed. But as we know she has never crossed 6months. Is it possible her I 94 is misplaced. After that from 1990 she has been denied visa several times. Now I am applying again after a lapse of 10 years of application. Hope she will get the visa at least now. She is 79 years old. She can not even go alone.

Hi Everyone ,i have appered for interivew in May 12 for tourist visa at Delhi US embassy .VO asked few question like purpose of visit ,travel history ,job related ,no of years with present company etc and returned my and my wife's passport and asked us to report at counter no 30 and that indian lady handed over a pink letter with cross line by mentioning case no and asked us to check the status online ,when i asked her about visa she said no your visa is not approved as of now and we need 3-4 weeks time for additional processing and take decision accordingly but she has kept our passports with her .we were very disaapointed as we saw other persons getting visa and vo were telling them that they will get their passport in 2-3 workig days .We go for international holidays every year and we have already visited so many country including australia ,canada,NZ,UK,Europe but problem is my us tourist visa had got rejected 8 years ago from delhi embassy ,i had applied for busniess visa at that time ,DO anyone has similar exp .do they issue visa when they have kept our passports ,i check the status everyday but its showing under processing .

Interview was in Marathi language.
This was second time for my parents to appear for interview. First was rejected under 214(b). We kept around 15 months gap between interviews.

Questions asked by VO:

US address
Company Name
Is your son hold green card ? Son's visa type?
Fathers income
Duration of trip (We kept it short 1month)
Was your visa rejected twice in a year?
Father's occupation (Retired)
Mother's occupation(Homemaker, take care of grand kids)

Visa we got for 10yrs.

Success rate is very less in Mumbai (5:1)


Suggestions: prepared your parents well for interview / try to fill DS160 yourself not through the agent / keep your trip short

My Husband have conference in usa ,he has b1visa,i applied and when i went to the consulate she spoke to me well and friendly.
Later said "give your passport will verify and send you",what does this mean...
Did i get the visa,How long will it take....what is the ans..
Please help me out.....