I was looking through my documentation that I collected when I attended F1 Visa Interview. Here are a few real visa experiences that I collected for guidance. These are from 2003 and 2004, they are old but they can give you some general idea. Hopefully it may help some of you.  These are experiences written by someone who attended the visa stamping and they have given their word of advice at the end. NOTHING is written by ME in this POST. It is just a collection.  All credit to those who wrote these. I am just posting their experiences here. If you would like to share your Visa stamping experience, please feel free to email me. You may also read these visa experiencs shared by our users :

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F1 Visa Interview Questions (actual Visa Experiences)

VO: Good morning.

Me: Good morning sir.

VO: Why r u going to US?

Me: Sir I have been working for the past 3 years now. I always wanted to do research and I think this is the best time

to pursue my goals as I have the valuable industry experience and good academic background to support me as well.

VO: Hmmm. but why only this university.

Me: Infact sir I have got admits to other universities as well and….

VO: Which are the other universities.

ME: (I told him the list)

VO: Ok. So what’s special about this university U R going to.

Me: Sir, I have interacted with quite a few graduate students at all the universities and I realize that this university

I am going to has state of the art research facilities.

VO: Ok. So who is going to sponser ur education.

Me: My parents sir.

VO: Whats ur dad’s annual income.

I thought he said family….

Me: Sir X Lakhs.

VO: Thats ur dad’s income?

Me: Oh No sir. Thats my parents income. My dad’s income is YLakhs/PA.

He gives me a stare. Looks at me in disbelief.

Looks thru my papers….

Me: I point out the various documents in proof of Y lakhs/PA.

VO: Where is ur bank transaction statement.

Me: I show him the printout which has the transactions.

Finds a letter which states that I work for Tata Infotech Limited.

VO: Oh. U work for Tata’s?

Me: Yes sir. For the past 3 years.

VO: So Tatas is sponsoring ur education?

Me: No sir. Tata’s dont sponser higher education.

VO: But Tata’s are very very rich.

Me: (just laughed).

Just passes all the documents below the window and says go and pay the visa fees at the counter.

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Suggestions

1] Dont put all your documents in the folder given by the tts people because that we will be giving it to counsellor

he will not see the docs completely. This was the problem faced by me. if  i would have kept some of my financial

docs with me I would have shown him as soon as he asked me.

2] He [counsellor] asked me about my dad’s annual income i told him he is earning about X lakhs per annum …

then he asked me that how much he will be providing you in that X lakhs.. i told him that he will be providing me

X-1 lakhs for my education.

3] Counselor after seeing my I-20 where it is mentioned my course duration as 3years including 1 year as grace .

he kept hanging to it saying that my course duration is 3 years and u dont have sufficient funds to pay for it .

i told him that only 2 years is the course duration and 1 year is grace he not even tried to listen my words.

so any one going for counselling keep that in mind what to answer if this question is being posed to you.

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Another F1 Visa Interview Experience . F1 Visa interview Questions

The interview was like this.

Con. Officer: Hiii!!! (with a broad smile)

Me: Hello sir (Smiling)

Gave him my folder.

CO: Louisiana State University.

Me: Yes sir.

CO: Why this univ?

Me: My area of interest is VLSI and advanced research work is going on over there in this area.

CO: Look, the annual expenses are 16,000 USD and ur course duration is 2.5 years as per ur i-20, it comes

to 50,000 USD. How will u meet these expenses?

Me: Sir, I am having a bank balance of 14.6 lacs and Fixed deposits of 2 lacs.

CO: what is your father?

Me: My father is ——– (told his occupation)

CO: What is his income?

Me: 4.5 lacs per annum sir.

CO: It is not sufficient I think.

Me: Sir, my brother is also sponsoring me for my education.

CO: What is he doing?

Me: He is working as ——— (told his occupation).

Co: where?

Me: In Bangalore sir.

CO: What is his income?

Me: 1.8 lacs per annum sir.

Co: So, He can also support you for ur studies.

Me: Yes sir.

CO: what is ur mother?

Me: My mother is a house wife and she is having property,

Con. Officer interrupted and said, property selling and all won’t happen…

Me: She gets rents of about 1.3 lacs per annum through her property sir.

CO: OK. So what will u do with ur electrical engineering degree.

Me: I will return to India and work in a big company.

CO: Why not in US?

Me: Usual sir, family ties and all our property is located in India.

CO: Take all your documents.

Me: OK

CO: Goto the last counter and pay the DD.

He didn’t check even one document of mine.

So be confident and tense free.

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Another F1 Visa Stamping experience.

hi friends my visa appl was rejected on nov 15 the mistake i did was when he first asked me my dads

annual income which i told was 5.26 lacs which was ok. But i got confused when he asked my fathers monthly

income after asking what does he do i told him his salary only thats 25000 nd not the other incomes this

where i got caught. And as told by rajesh fridays really r not advisable

this is how my interview went

vo: hi Mr. ali how r u

ali: i am fine sir good morning

vo: do u know anyone in the US

ali: my senior friends are in the US

vo: why do u want to go to US?

ali: for master of sciences in Inustrial & system engg

vo: Which university u r planning to go?

ali: the university of memphis

vo: why univ of memphis?

ali: the industrial prog in the univ of memphis consist of topics  like operation research and forecasting techniques

which r of my  interest

vo: ( interrupts ) but these subj are taught in other univ also but why only memphis

ali: sir i thorougly studied the website of univ of mempphis and i am satisfied by the facilities being provided there

also i had some conversation with the grad advisor michel racer

vo: oh

vo: but Mr ali will u be able the high fees , who is sponsoring  u?

ali: my father

vo: what does he do

ali: he is a telecom engineer with the dept of telecommunication

vo: What’s his annual income?

ali: 5.26lakhs

vo: how hes going to support ur education tell me his monthly income

ali: 25000 also he has a steady agricultural income

vo: i dont think he can support U

ali: sir he is working for the past 27 years with  the dept. He has  sufficient bank balance to support to me

vo: show me ur bank docs

( i gave me my bank statement)

vo: not this one show me the transactions

(i gave him my passbook he sees all the pages of passbook)

vo: so do u think he is going to spend all his hard earned money on u (nodding his head

ali: yes sir

(i try to speak he interupts)

vo: mr ali i am sorry according to me(speaks a long sentence which  they do while marking the 214B)