Tourist Visa for Moroccan University Student

[JessBlue 0]

Hello readers. I need your advice! I will be traveling from Morocco to the States and would like a friend to join me. My family has invited him and to host him on the visit, as his family has hosted be in Morocco. My friend has spent a lot of time helping me learn about Morocco and its culture. I would like to do an exchange with him now on America and its culture. We will be applying for a tourist visa and planning to stay for one month. I am reaching out to you for advice as to our best chances at getting the visa approved. My understanding is that it is difficult, especially when the applicant does not have a lot of assets. A few points:

- I will be helping my friend apply, as well as attending the interview if possible.

- I am on work contract and can prove that I must return to Morocco, so my friend would be returning with me.

- He is a university student and can prove enrollment. However, because he is a student, he does not have a well paying job, own a home (he lives with family), or have a significant amount of money saved.

- Since my family will be hosting him, they will provide lodging, food, and local transportation. He will only need souvenir money.

Any advice as to what my friend can do to prove he will return to Morocco at the end of one month would be greatly appreciated, or any other advice that can help increase our chances of approval!

Sent to you with gratitude!

[canadian_wife 1,785]

Your, and your family's ties, are irrelevant. Your friend must apply on his/her own. Focus on strengthening your friend's ties. Does this friend have any property? A job? In all honesty, is this more than a 'friend'?

good luck

[JessBlue 0]

Thanks for the response. This is not more than a friend. He does have a job but it is just working for his brother when he is on school breaks. This helps him pay for school. He does not own property.

[Boiler 43,397]

- I am on work contract and can prove that I must return to Morocco, so my friend would be returning with me.

Why would he be returning with you?

[JessBlue 0]

We thought maybe it could help his chances getting the visa if we could show that we were going to travel together, and it must return. Additionally, he is still a beginner at English and I would be his translator.

[Boiler 43,397]

Why must he return with you?

[JessBlue 0]

Well, my family's invitation would be over at that point. He would also have to return for classes.

[Boiler 43,397]

To state the obvious millions have not.

All he can do is apply and see.

[Ning 619]

Hello readers. I need your advice! I will be traveling from Morocco to the States and would like a friend to join me. My family has invited him and to host him on the visit, as his family has hosted be in Morocco. My friend has spent a lot of time helping me learn about Morocco and its culture. I would like to do an exchange with him now on America and its culture. We will be applying for a tourist visa and planning to stay for one month. I am reaching out to you for advice as to our best chances at getting the visa approved. My understanding is that it is difficult, especially when the applicant does not have a lot of assets. A few points:

- I will be helping my friend apply, as well as attending the interview if possible.

- I am on work contract and can prove that I must return to Morocco, so my friend would be returning with me.

- He is a university student and can prove enrollment. However, because he is a student, he does not have a well paying job, own a home (he lives with family), or have a significant amount of money saved.

- Since my family will be hosting him, they will provide lodging, food, and local transportation. He will only need souvenir money.

Any advice as to what my friend can do to prove he will return to Morocco at the end of one month would be greatly appreciated, or any other advice that can help increase our chances of approval!

Sent to you with gratitude!

You can help your friend by telling him he applies on his own merits. Your status has nothing to do with him nor his will or ability to return. You can help him by explaining that he must prove beyond doubt that he must return. That proof can take any form he wants to submit but he will find at his age coming from Morocco it will be almost impossible to do. He will only know if he applies.

I am not sure if you are a USC but even if you are it has zero to do with his case. Your circumstance has absolutely nothing to do with his.

You will not be at the interview.

His lack of funds isn't going to be good but it wont matter because I think he will be denied simply because of age ect and the fraud committed by so many people in the past.

[MUXAGIRL 69]

A friend of mine is a h1b holder in the US and his younger sister applied for a tourist visa to visit him when she was 20, she was denied. Again she applied when she was 24, she was denied. Both times she had school and work commitments, the second time she even had a stable but not very high paying job at home, her parents bought her an apartment so that she was some kind of home owner at 24, still denied.

Reason is quite clear. She's is a young, unmarried woman, so the chances of getting a bf/gf in the US is pretty high.

Same goes for your friend, I suppose. I wouldn't get too high hopes in this case.

[Jamie & Izzy 98]

In Morocco it all depends on who you are and how much you or your family have, my cousins get visas to the US all the time without any issues, i traveled to the US using VISA WAIVER program 3 times so far, but havent been again since July 2013 waiting for my interview in Morocco ... your friend has little chance but it doesn't hurt to try, and invitation to the US is not enough

[JessBlue 0]

Thank you all for the information!