Visiting my girlfriend ona B-2 Visa

[Karmii 0]

Hello everybody!

I have been a lurker of this site for a while and joined because I have a question.

I know this has been discussed a few time here but I would like to add some personal details.

I am young male from Pakistan and I am planing to visit my girlfriend for the first time who I met online three years ago. I am a student and we have both saved enough money to support my visit. I have heard of some stories online that it is very difficult for a young male from Pakistan to visit the US.

Does anyone have any experience on a similar situation and could give me some advice on what to do? Specifically on how to handle the visa interview.

Here is my outlined situation

-I am a medical student

-Have enough funds to support my visit

-A letter of invitation from my Gf's family.

[chaingang 7]

it will be miracle to get visit visa

[berber_wife 90]

It's difficult but not impossible for a young man from a Muslim country to get a visitor's visa. My boyfriend got one, even with tenuous proof of ties to Morocco. This is what I think helped in his case:

-He had a lot of money put away in savings (something like $40,000)

-He had traveled to Europe several times and never overstayed visas there

-He is very confident and not intimidated by authority figures

-He got his visa before me met me (obviously that ship has sailed for you)

I think that being in Med School would be pretty decent proof of ties. Have you traveled internationally at all? If you have and followed all the visa rules, that's a very good thing. But if you've never been outside of Pakistan, I don't think you have a chance. In that case, maybe you could try for a visitor visa to Europe, meet your girlfriend there, see if you like each other in person, and apply for a visitor's visa to the US once you've built up some travel history.

[nicaj 0]

Hey, just to put it out there. There is a myth about body language and all of that nervousness affecting the interview. For the most part, to consular staff, this is expected. The consular process can and is at times very intimidating to applicants. So no that is not the factor. Or maybe 1-2% un some cases. The real important issue are the ties to your country. The answer that one must ask is what ties do I have with my country that keep me from immigrating to the U.S. And question emcpasses

[nicaj 0]

Hey, just to put it out there. There is a myth about body language and all of that nervousness affecting the interview. For the most part, to consular staff, this is expected. The consular process can and is at times very intimidating to applicants. So no, that is not the factor. Or maybe 1-2% in some cases. The real important issues are the ties to your country. The answer that one must ask is what ties do I have with my country that keep me from immigrating to the U.S? And this question encompasses a broad range of details about the applicant that by the way fit to the pattern of the applicants that visit the consulates visa interviews.

the officer takes into account. Age, assets, travel pattern (4 to six months out of the country each trip for vacation is a disqualifier), family, children and so on. Then there is the purpose of visit issue. Who are you visiting, where are you going, for how long and who is paying for it and with what? Lastly whatever comes back from the namecheck? If you tell me you are a student with no assets, that your are visiting a friend worse a girlfriend, that your are going to NY for a month, and that she is paying for it or you are but can't back it up realistically? It does not matter if you are a Muslim, Latino, Jew, black yellow or white. 214 b and welcome to apply again. If the officer is friendly and had time to chat he/or she will hint a petition on your behalf but it's rare. Hope this helps.