F1 Visa Interview Tips Not Tricks
Prepare your own answers in 1 or 2 sentences for few common questions like –
- Why U.S? why not India, Europe?
- Why did you choose this univ among the other admits?
- What do you want to do after study in USA?
- How do you plan to fund your education? (There is absolutely no need to show astronomical figures in bank. Liquid cash for 1st year and some plan like loan for second year. Sound confident. Do not be in a hurry and show your bank statements or CA statements unless asked for)
- Q Will you return to India after your course?
- Listen to the question properly and think for a second before answering. Don’t be in any sort of a hurry to start your answer the moment he ends the question.
- If you take that little pause, you will know what exactly is being asked and will answer accordingly. Otherwise the answer may turn out to be vague or irrelevant.
Consulates Doesn’t Matter
Don’t worry if you are attending interview at Delhi consulate. It doesn’t matter which consulate.
All that matters is how well you answer. They have been rejecting quite a bit but don’t let that fear suck you in.
What happens at the most? They will reject you. Anything else? Apply again.
If it’s the second time already, still it’s okay.
When the fear of reject doesn’t come into the picture, there is no place for anxiety and you’d be calm and confident.
Luck is a factor but not the only factor.
99% of the factors are in our control and don’t mess it up there.
Keep Clam
- Have a cool mind. I have seen people shivering literally.
- How can one expect to answer properly in such a state of mind?
- Remove the fear of a reject totally. When the univ gives us admission, when we want to study, when we have funds ready, there is no reason why we’d be rejected unless we mess it up ourselves by fumbling too much.
Will You Come Back
Will he believe when I say I want to come back? Answer is no.
He won’t. but sound confident about your plans if asked.
“There is absolutely nothing you can do to prove that you’d return”.
If a country is against immigrants, it will not believe people on word on the basis of a 1 minute interview.
This is all a trap and a good reason for them to reject applicants. If they want, they can kick us out soon after our graduation ceremony. They wouldn’t offer us OPT’s of 12 months (extended to 24 now) and give us options.
Basically what I want to convey is U.S needs us more than we need U.S. Let us look at it from a different perspective now. After providing world class infrastructure for research, will they willingly allow us to go back, work in home countries and become a competition to them inturn?
No. Surely not. They are looking to filter and take the best brains from all the countries.
This filtering is done from the visa stage as I see. Who is a potential immigrant and who is not? How can it be decided in a few seconds? Don’t try too hard to convince him here. If he has decided to give you that potential immigrant slip, no amount of explanation would convince him.
U.S. Visa Rejection Reasons
Now you may ask why and when he gives this slip. As per my understanding, he uses this tool to remove people who he thinks are false, people who lie, who can fabricate, who can cheat. Many good applicants fumble, confuse, shiver which should be avoided at all costs!
A little of that is expected and VOs understand it – they are humans too. But too much of it won’t help for sure.
I saw a guy worrying about what he should say if the Visa Officer asks his name!
His worry was that his name on i20 is a little different than passport. How does it matter if I say Rama Krishnan Murti or Murti Rama Krishnan!!
Too much worry will lead to nothing.
Don’t try to be brilliant in that 3 minutes.
To sum it up –
Fact #1 : You want to study, you got admission, you have funds. There is no reason to worry about anything.
Fact #2 : U.S needs you more than you need U.S A. We have an upper hand! So don’t go with a fear whether he’d find you good enough or not. Don’t underestimate yourself. Go confidently. Go like a brave soldier not like a wounded one.
We deserve visa.
The only reason we fumble and get tensed is because we feel something is lacking in us and try to convince him on that.
Do not do that.
This is not a professional job interview where you’d be tested on the subject matter. These are questions even a 10th standard guy can answer casually. So don’t lose your sleep over it. Let us break this hype.
When we do that, automatically the anxiety, tension, euphoria surrounding will vanish.
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