sucharita

If anyone has any insights on the matter, please them share here! Thanks

I found this
link useful.

mirela

Don't worry about this. I was on a visa interview in February but there was nothing frightful about it. All they asked was where I was going, who was defraying my costs and so on. The interview was in English.
And be careful when you fill in the forms (they are quite strict about them). But everything will be fine - when they see Princeton on your I-20 they won't peck at you Good luck

gandalf

How does one convince the interviewer you're going to come back? Lots of sites say you have to show cultural and social ties....how do you do that?

adides

u can show ur ties in the following ways:
1. money, show them that u can inherit from ur family (i know that sucks!!)
2. family business or something
3. show them that u can get a very good job/prosper in ur business etc.
4. family, show them that u care a lot for ur family.. let it flow from ur words.
5. finally, that u love ur country!
and yeah, this is how it goes in india, dont know about other places though!!

mirela

adides, it's absolutely the same in my country. One thing to add: they might ask why you want to leave your country since you like it. I believe that the only reasonable answer is to say that the experience you gather abroad and the high-quality education you receive will be of great help to your country when you return.

adides

you can also say that there is more flexibility in the us edu system. u can learn more than one course at one time. like engineering and eco. etc.

mirela

good idea

adides

another very important question that you can be asked is what will you do with this degree in the future?
here u have to say that you will do something in ur own country i.e., get a good job or business... etc. but give a strong, convincing answer!
if possible with some proof, that is the field's current status in ur country and its predicted status. if its growing, it will increase ur chances of getting visa!

sucharita

yeah showing that your field has good prospects in your own country is really important. the question of course is how your going to do it.

Anokhi

Well, I've been told that they know most kids going will never return to their home countries, and basically look at the type of people they would WANT in the US.

I don't know how true that is, but it does make some sense.
Considering that I know this one person who was given a visa even though he intended to study law in America, making it clear he can't return as India doesn't recognize law degrees from the US. And he hadn't ever travelled abroad so it wasn't as if he had much in his favour.

I don't know, I do intend to return though... hopefully it will come across.

atu23

what if your area of study isn't strong or simply unexistent in your country and you neeed to migrate? How bad is telling the truth? After all, you can be useful somewhere and that doesn't mean you're gonna take advantege of other countries' welfare. You want to work, but you want to work in something you decide to!!!!

rage666

Will having a brother who works in the US work agianst me in my interview??? they need sufficient evidence in order to prove that you want to come back... will they raise an eyebrow when they see that my brother works there?

hello

Well most interviewers know that you're BS'ing them, irrespective I think its better to stick to the basics and tell them that you want to come back to your country.

mellowjello

Just had my interview yesterday, consider myself lucky, my interviewer didn't ask me the dreaded, "How do I know you are coming back?" question.
In case you are wondering, YES I got my visa.

boomer01

what kind of questions were asked?