what's up you guys it's pritham here so today my topic will be the do's and the don'ts of the
us visa interviews and question and answer so after getting my visa rejected for the first
time when i got selected for my j1 internship and pursue my internship in the united states
i had to go to the us consulate and give my visa interview the visa interview is necessary
for you to come to the united states that's the permission from the united states government that
you are allowed to come here and also work here on certain types of visa so there is a lot of
visa categories and pretty much all the visa question and answer pretty much are the same
so they are i'm not specifying any personal or any single categories for today there will be
a compact answer and the questions that you might get from the us consulate for your visa interview
so the backdrop is when i was graduating from my college on that time it was 2018 and after
graduating from my college i applied for internship in the united states
and after applying for my united states visa i had to go through the interview process and
guess what that i got rejected so even after i got rejected then i had one more chance to go another
time on the us embassy and then give my visa interview one more time so what i did i i searched
a lot of things on the online and really practiced my way up to get the visa actually because
if i don't have the visa then i don't get to the united states and go here and pursue my internship
so without that said let's jump into the video and don't forget to subscribe my channel
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what you should do and what you should avoid during your visa interview and before your
visa interview so please stick to this video until the end and i hope to give you a lot of
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thank you so much for watching today so let's get into the video so the don'ts will be do not give
any inappropriate answer and prepare adequately if you are giving inappropriate answers suppose the
visa officer asking you one question and you're talking about another thing that we'll consider
as a fail and you should have prepared adequately and you should have all the things needs to be
done before all the visa interview that you have to go another thing is that you should not give
any unnecessary information which is really not countable suppose the interview should be done
with all the necessary information that they are asking suppose they are asking questions regarding
your family so you should tell them about your family don't talk about your friends and your
friends friends all these things like that another one is unsuccessfully providing the documentation
so suppose you need to provide your hotel ticket or maybe your flight ticket or maybe your offer
letter from your properties if you are coming here with a work permit or with a work visa
then all the things that you need to provide there before you go there you need to make sure that you
have those things so do not fail to provide your documentation that's a very big fail if they are
asking for proof to you you need to be able to prove those that okay this is my documents and
i need to go for this reason so they will consider it as a pass but if you cannot
provide those necessary documents it will consider as a fail the next thing you should not do is late
being late is a really rude about uh valuable things like this so you should not be late
and when you apply for your us visa interview on the application on the online there will be time
that they will tell you you have to be arrived before the interview happens like almost 15
minutes before you need to arrive there and that's what something you need to follow if
you are becoming late so you are not taking this really seriously and if you're not taking
this seriously so they won't also care that much about you going to the united states so
an another time i'm saying that don't be late so i remember when my visa interview was occurring
on that time i was almost like 45 minutes early on my visa embassy in india so please
be in mind that you should be there before at least 30 minutes ago that's a good time suppose if
there is some traffic over there is some anything happening so you'll get yourself some window that
you can reach on the embassy with a adequate amount of time on your hand and you should be
have that time before you go to the interview another thing is to consider about inappropriate
appearance suppose you are going in the united states of america's embassy on your state or maybe
in your country you need to be very professional you need to look professional where the looks is
people will see you first and then they will speak to you suppose you need to be dress for success in
my opinion and you need to be look very polished no matter i'm talking about like jewelries and
something just a fine suit or maybe fine dress that not really flashy but also you can wear any
formal event consider wearing those because these will help you to look more professional and look
more confident and also serious by that time when you go to the interviewer they will judge you by
their appearances almost 20 percent because that's a certain thing that they will speak to you before
they will saw you then they will speak to you so be considered about that about your appearance
don't do any casual dress and don't wear any fancy too fancy dress because it's a formal thing and
it's really straight forward to you and be uh remember of that that suppose you are wearing
any jewelry not heavy jewelry i will recommend if you are a female so i will recommend like a
really light jewelry so for office work or maybe in a formal event that you will wear and my last
one that you should not do it's you feel nervous before going to the us visa embassy and then you
are appearing for your interview i know a little nervous we all feel even i felt that no matter how
many times i go even though i go there for two times after getting my first rejection
i was not really feeling that confidence anymore i was really nervous and really star struck about
what happened on my first interview so it's really about yourself to be not nervous and it's all
about your mindset so you should set your mind not to be nervous and things like that will make
your interview really ruin and you will lose your golden chance to come here in the united states
so those were my don'ts that you should not do for your us visa interview at the us consulate
or maybe at the us embassy so right now i might say that you will know what that what you should
not do but you have a lot to learn still because there is a lot of things and lot of question
that they will ask you at the visa embassy or at the consulate that you should prepare for early
ahead in my chance that when i got rejected at the first time i made a couple of mistakes and
from those mistake that i learned that you should be really straightforward and you have to answer
straight to the point that they will understand loud and clear about what they're asking for so
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first question they will ask like what's the purpose of your visit to the united states
so in this time this will be the major key of your success the getting the visa of the united
states if you answer it really straightforward and correctly you just need to state that what
is your purpose why are you coming to the united states if i give you example the example will
be easy for my case when they ask me why are you going to the united states or what is your purpose
going to the united states i said that i have completed my graduation in hospitality management
in hotel management so after that i have applied for a j1 visa which is an internship that i got
from the jw marriott hotel in indianapolis indiana so that's my purpose to pursue my internship and
learn a lot of things from the kitchen environment in the united states so you need to be very
thorough about what you need to say and what is your purpose think thoroughly and consider
this question is very important to you so the next question they will ask you have you been
to the united states before so if you have i will recommend you to give the answer because
if you don't give the answer correctly they will know for sure because you are in their
system that you already visit the united states so please tell them where you've been before in the
united states suppose you source your families or maybe your in-laws maybe your relatives
and these i would consider telling you that you should tell the truth and absolutely this is a
straightforward question have you been there so they might know that you are telling the truth and
not telling them any false information which is really a negative thing so consider telling them
that if you've been to the united states so just tell them yes i have been to the united states
for six months i had the purpose of visiting and i saw really great places around the us so just
like that you need to follow with the lead and always be straightforward with the visa officer
on the next question they will ask you do you have any friends or relatives in the united states
suppose if you do have friends or relatives in the united states you need to tell them that yes i
have my relatives my aunt or my uncle or my nephew my cousin like that and suppose if you do not have
any relatives it's easy and you need to say that okay yeah i do not have any relatives in the
united states that's as simple as that after your relative question they will might ask you that so
give some details or give some information about your relatives so in that question you need to be
thorough about what you're going to say because if you tell them that okay yeah i have my aunt
in the united states you need to know the exact state your aunt's living and the exact address
and they might ask you an invitation later suppose you are going to visit your aunt again or maybe
that's your first time they will ask you do you have any invitation letter from your aunt from the
united states so you need to consider asking your aunt to give you an invitation letter for you to
give them to the visa officer on the next question they might ask that where will be staying
in the united states in the time of your vacation there or in the time of your business there
so in that case if you booked a hotel in the united states in any particular state of the
50 states here so you might need to show them your hotel tickets and your hotel reservations
confirmation all those things and suppose your family or maybe your relatives are calling you
and this time also you need to show their invitation later so they will understand that
you will be staying with your relatives and on the next question they might ask you that
why are you specifically traveling to the united states in this time so this is an easy one for
me because i was going to the united states for my internship and the internship start date was
suppose october 1st so i tell them that i need to go specifically in this time because my hotel
or my property told me to come on that time so i can attend my internship at the very first time
and suppose if you are working in an office or maybe you are working in some place that you will
just get your days off from particular time frame so you need to tell them that okay usually i get
my days off or my vacation time in this period of time so that's why i chose to visit united states
on my vacation time so that will be appropriate answer these questions will not be a big deal if
you know what time you are going and why you are going maybe there will be some festival that you
will get vacation time off so you can tell them that you have to be as honest as possible because
they will know about your face reading about your behavior your body language that you might
be lying so do not consider lying again tell them the truth that you got some time off or maybe you
having some vacation time that's why you want to go in this particular time so on the next question
they will might ask you this is a very important question mark me because i believe that in this
question decided my first visa rejection they asked me okay pritam what's your parents do so
i told them that my mother is a homemaker and my dad is a truck driver so that was honest and i was
trying to be as honest as possible but i learned that you can say truck driver in a different way
in a different ways that they can understand also better after this question they asked me and i
told them the answer they just told me that you are not eligible to approve your visa right now
or today so what i learned and my next answer was on this question i told them that my father works
as a transporter as a businessman you'd see the difference between this so you need to be very
careful about your parents occupation try for some another words which is matches and looks
a little professional and also that will help you to tell them that you will able to take care of
yourself in the united states that you will if you need some funds or if you need some money
so that your parents can help you out whatever the problem is uh going on in the u.s another question
they will ask that how long you'll be staying in the united states suppose you are coming and a j-1
visa so you will tell them that okay my program is for only one year so i will be staying in the
united states for one year suppose you are coming on a business visa or maybe a travel visa which
is a b1 v2 visa so those visas are particularly for six to three months so you need to consider
about what you are saying and what kind of visa you're applying so you can tell them
that okay i'll be there for only six months or maybe three months after my vacation ends then
i'll come back something like that because in this question they will try to find that are
you really telling the truth or do you have any intention to staying in the us after you go there
so these types of things you need to understand in first hand and you need to prepare for yourself to
tell the truth but also in a very straightforward way and one at a time so thank you for watching
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