Help with Visa issues

[myheart0628 30]

Hello, everyone.

 

My husband and I are almost at the interview phase and I had concerns on about our interview. I had been talking to my husband on Facebook since 2015. I visited my husband in May 2016 through my university. It was kind of like a volunteer/ internship program. The program told us to apply for a visitor visa and not a volunteer visa. I'm just wondering if this will cause issues if I tell them that is why I was in the country. Because that would mean I was under the wrong visa when I arrived. It might also raise questions about whether or not our families now and things like that.

Edited September 22, 2017 by myheart0628

[JFH 12,189]

What's a volunteer visa? If it was an internship in the true sense of the word then you were on the wrong visa if you had a tourist visa. However, the question is whether you lied to obtain the visa. What did you say you were coming here to do when you were questioned at the visa interview? 

[myheart0628 30]

5 hours ago, JFH said:

What's a volunteer visa? If it was an internship in the true sense of the word then you were on the wrong visa if you had a tourist visa. However, the question is whether you lied to obtain the visa. What did you say you were coming here to do when you were questioned at the visa interview? 

Its just a visa to be considered as a volunteer to do volunteer service.My school counted it as an intership but I guess it was a volunteer trip. We lived with a host family and taught agriculture at a school.

I just told them I was here to tour and visit friends. My school is a big 12 school and sanctioned and plan this trip. I assumed it was ok because they told me to just say that. The agency they used said a volunteer visa was to expensive to get and unnecessary. But I looked and it was the same price, so I have no idea why they told me not to apply for a volunteer visa.

Edited September 22, 2017 by myheart0628