How to Answer Visa Interview Questions

the visa interview what is the visa [Music] interview everyone applying for a Visa has to overcome before they can get that Visa in their hand and be able to travel to the US not all countries do this but the US does the US has a policy where everyone who's going to uh obtain a visa to travel to the US has to go for a visa interview there are a few situations in which you you might be eligible for a Visa wave but if you're here today it's because you know that you do need to have your interview okay well what does that mean for you then it means that you're going to go you're going to submit an application the ds160 you're going to pay the fee you're going to schedule a time you're going to show up at the embassy and then you're going to walk in and you're going to have a brief conversation with someone who is called a consular officer or a Visa officer this person is a US Diplomat uh that's their job that they've been assigned to abroad if in your country uh the language that people speak is something other than English then they will have been taught to speak that language and their job is to interview each and every Visa applicant and then make a decision either to issue the Visa or to refuse the Visa now how can you affect their decision how can you get them to lean towards issuing your visa and not towards refusing your Visa well that's what we're going to talk about today many people go into their visa interview and what do they do they're passive you don't want to be passive because what does that mean it means you're leaving it to chance if we pick a country randomly off the list of countries where the US is doing Visa interviews and we look at what the refusal rate is for a B1 B2 visa and we see that it is 25% that means 25% of people applying for a B1 B2 tourist visitors Visa are getting refused their visa now if you walk into that visa interview and you are just a an average person from your country uh with a very similar situation to many other people well there is a 25% chance you might get refused especially if you don't do anything to boost your chances because what we want is to go into that visa interview and know that we are not just going to have a 75% chance of issuance we want to raise that as high as possible to 90% 95% 98% 99% I would say 100% but it's hard to ever get to 100% because there is that human decision involved but you can raise your chances and how can you do that you can make their job easy how do you make the Visa officer's job easy you make the decision obvious now they're trying to pick out who is a legitimate Visa applicant and who's an illegitimate Visa applicant who is telling the truth and plans to do what they say they're going to do and who's lying to me who's not qualified who's deceiving me and has a different purpose of travel you can answer their questions in such a way as you can give them that confidence that you indeed are going to use your Visa as it is intended you are going to use it legally and then you're going to return to your home country now how do you do this don't give one word answers this is top tip number one do not give one-word answers in your visa interview especially to those General very broad questions that are going to begin the visa interview at the beginning of the visa interview the Visa officer is most likely going to ask you something very general what what's your purpose of travel to the US what are you going to study in the US why do you need a visa something like this if you just answer tourism study these shed no light on your real intentions they don't bring to to life any of your character or your story or your individuality you're still just a blank slate there's nothing about what you've said that guides the Visa officer towards issuing your Visa now what can you say instead you can say oh I plan on going to the US for tourism I've already been to X Y and Z countries and I work as an accountant in my home country uh and I have just purchased a home with my wife there you've given them the answer to their question which is tourism to the US but you've given them a lot more too you've given them a history of interal travel right you say you're going to be a tourist to the US well having been a tourist to other countries bolsters that resume of being an international tourist two saying that you have your job right you've got a professional job that is a tie to your home country it's bringing you back home to your country so is having that home that you just bought also indicating your financial stability you also mentioned your spouse another tie which indicates that you would want to return to your home country rather than remain in the US unlawfully okay so those short answers are the first thing to avoid you want to give longer answers not just interminable long endless answers but rather you want to give full answers answers that contain a lot of relevant information a lot of meat that are going to help convince the Visa officer that you are legitimate Vis [Music] applicant

Channel: Argo Visa

Views: 68,411

Keywords: Immigration, Visa

Id: 6-QKxM1vPxI

Length: 5min 36sec (336 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 07 2023