Who is Funding your education? What you should tell the VO | F1 Visa

that's right now Paul can you tell us when it come to sponsorship what are the consoles expecting how do I answer who is finding me assuming I have a 50 scholarship and I have my own funding so we will look at funding from scholarship how do I answer funding from scholarship how do I answer funding from sponsorship right employer my uncle my brother and how do I answer sponsorship from self right and how do I answer sponsorship from loans yes so take us through this yeah very important question essentially any question about funding is to uh authenticate um the availability of the funds the sufficiency of it and The credibility of the source of the funds the availability yes whether the money is available like if I say right it's liquid yes is it is it can you liquidate it and say I can pay my tuition right right now that's why they don't require Investments no okay they don't require assets yes yes something that if cash you need the money within the next week or two you you can get the money okay so availability um The credibility yeah so where is the money coming this is an authentic money is it true is it true is the money truly coming from this place is not just like a charm or fake um also is the source credible in that is this person not going to change his or her mind yeah right or can this person really sponsor you or can this be specifically able to sponsor yeah that's another thing yeah The credibility of the money and the sufficiency on this is enough is it enough to take care of all that you need yes can the and can the person also be better yes after giving you order yes yeah yes all of that is those are the three key things that they they want to um uh you know confidently uh establish through the question the funding question and my advice to most people is that the best way to you know the easiest I almost say best but the easiest way to prove The credibility of the source of money is always to project this the school the scholarship the scholarship yeah because that's that's easiest yeah that's yes to Credible accessible available amazing because it's coming from the school already so my advice to everybody my younger sisters my friends everybody I tell them if they ask you who is funding you mention the name of the schools Fest right if the scholarship yeah if you go to school if you got a scholarship from the school yeah then mention that one first like let that one come first so I received a full tuition waiver from the school yeah or I got a 14 14 000 International students whatever I want or I got a three thousand dollar whatever award from the school state that one first then if you have other sources of fund you can state that now the next easiest to like to authenticate whether it's credible is money that is coming from either yourself or from a very close family relative yeah and in this case very close is father mother self yeah or maybe brother yeah right father mother brother self right extended family or sister or sister right sibling General extended family is great but usually extended family takes a little bit more effort to sort of like uh authenticate the The credibility of it because there's so many stories out there of people who came here with Uncle funding brother-in-law funding but I lost cousin friendly yeah and then the person changed their minds yeah or the person run out of money or the person had a much more like um you know immediate issues issue or the Dollar City re exchange rate blew up the money and the money that they thought they could give you could they could not make that available anymore so in this case like they can change their mind and it will not necessarily affect them directly but it's very likely that your parents yourself or whoever who's very invested in your life will not change their minds easily so those are the those are the general expectations make sure that the money is enough make sure that the money is available or you can prove that it's available within the short possible time if you need it and then make sure that the source of the money is credible and like we have said here the most credible Source easiest to prove credibility is school funding yourself your parents or an immediate siblings and what about your employer is that employer too is a great government or government yeah those ones are also great ones they fall in the same line with this school yeah right they fall in the same line with the school if your employer and sponsoring you your your what you call a government is sponsoring you or something like that and for for your for your employer it must also be justifiable yes that means that you cannot have a company that basically produce an end less than ten thousand dollars in a year to save you are sponsoring somebody who is going to study at a course of uh twenty thousand dollars yeah that's where the a little bit of credibility Constitution can also come in yeah in that case how is this company going to survive yeah yeah yeah and Paul can you tell us about my uncle response oh my God that is very common now majority majority of the people we speak to are being sponsored by their uncle and it's like the African anchors are now like are very responsible these days and and what what do you see how how is that because I feel like that has been has has been a trend for a long time a long time and the consulates are yeah skeptical now consumers are skeptical but at the beginning it ain't even till today it still makes sense because like for most African Clans and cultures you know Uncle like they have we have a matrilineal form that uncles play a huge role in families and things like that so embassies understood that um line of sponsorship and support but we got to a point where other people are also just like randomly looking for money from friends yeah or friends or friends and they didn't have any other way to sort of credibly authenticate the source of the money they'll rather change that and say it's an ankle you know it's your friend's friend or your friends-in-law or your cousin's brother or something but you would say it's your uncle so the the consulate now they they understand that Dynamic and they are being a little careful about uncles so expect that if you go and you say it's your uncle they may not necessarily take it as flat genuine uncle but they will probe a little feather yeah what is your relationship how long has it been in your life what does he do and those kinds of things just to be sure that it's truly an uncle but how I'll prefer that if it's possible it's more than an uncle somebody who's much closer your father your mother if you have right if you don't that's a different story if you don't you can find other ways of proving that like if you get a letter or you can show some other things and also it must be okay we have we have addressed the sufficiency and order now can you tell us about family and relatives outside there are some people who are being sponsored by their relatives outside their families outside like how how does that impact their their or how should I answer a question about uh my family or my uncle my mother or somebody who is outside the country who is in the U.S specifically right again the same three rules would apply right in this case they're gonna still review that same story through the lens of availability credibility and sufficiency yeah right and in this case The credibility will be a lot more yeah because they would want to know that this this person is truly involved in your life yeah right and for most people at least through my experience as I I have encountered people talking to people it's easier for the younger students like yeah undergraduate students um fresh out of high school yeah they have a brother in the U.S who is funding they have a sister in the U.S who is funding or they have parents in the U.S who are funding or uncle or something like that funding those ones are easier to understand because it seems like they're constantly it's sort of they're sympathetic towards the younger ones yeah the ones that I have experienced to be a lot more difficult are the older ones like me you know like if you're older you have a lot more experience you you don't have gone through some some work experience travel in here and then then you come in and say it's your cousin in the U.S who is sponsoring you that one they stagger a little bit yeah and they try to probe a little further um but either way the the the the the review process is the same your answer must address um The credibility of the source the availability of building the sufficiency of it okay what about loans like I'm I'm coming and I have a loan and I'm coming on a student loan how do I answer a question on loans I think for for loans we all should expect uh um questions regarding like who's giving the loan um how are you going to repay back the loan because that's a big thing like they're not just gonna watch you ruin your life they're gonna like ask you if I do this so much that program yes and you're alluding to a point that is very important in the sense that the you know the extent to which the loans can help in your application depends on how much of it perfect for some people they need loan as a supplementary fund yeah that is that is cool that happens you need about five thousand five thousand I have 50 000 already I need ten thousand yeah or I have twenty thousand already I need fifteen thousand or something like that just to supplement it yeah for some people um they need loan to support everything entirely about and that's 20 40 000 and this is a year yeah for a year that means it's going to be recurring if your program is two years you're gonna be paying 80 000 yes yes if you're alone if you're taking 40 000 a year if you're taking 50 000 there's going to be like a hundred thousand a year and if you're an undergrad you'll be staying in school for five years or four years then you know you're going to be duplicating that and that's where the consulate will be like hey guy have you have you thought about what you're trying to do have you have you really thought about it do you know the implications of paying loans with interest over a period of five years or two years or whatever period of time that you are giving to repay back the loan that's where they want to probe a little bit further right again as I have said in other previous videos about loans that we have done personally I am a little hesitant about loans but I understand that it's not everybody who would you know be as privileged right so if you need to take a loan think critically about your repayment plan the interest the interests the time period that they're going to pay how much loan you're taking and then also think critically about your repayment plan because they would want to know all these things before they Grant you the thing it's not an automatic Grant because you got a loan from a credible Source yeah yeah and and the loan is really really a big thing because uh when you are here on F1 visa and you graduate and you want to even work on opt maximum three years and you are still working around how do you use that three years to pay 40 000 yeah very few people save up forty thousand dollars in three years you yeah it will be it shouldn't be easy it will even bring a lot of stress so sometimes as you said you must reconsider if it is huge the loan amount is a lot and and why don't you apply weight and apply to other schools that would be that way I think that's that's a big thing why don't you try other places too I'm sure there will be somewhere that even if they don't give you everything they'll give you something much more substantial that their loan will not be that huge [Music]

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Length: 11min 41sec (701 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 19 2022