Ho Chi Minh City B2 Visa APROVED!

[No name 88 48]

Went for the interview with the wife and as advised by VJ members the baby and myself had to wait outside. So we went to the coffee bean across the street and waited. One hour later the phone rings and the wife tells me the CO gave her a letter of invitation to come inside and that the CO wants to see me and the baby. After I get inside the CO asks for my passport and I see him look at my Vietnam visa exemption and then he asks about my employment contract in India. He sees my employment visa for India in my passport while I explain that I work in India and live in Vietnam one month on and one month off. He questions this and I say that I'm a Chief Engineer in the US Merchant Marine working on a Drillship. The CO says that explains a lot and approves the wife's B2 visa.

Apparently the CO didn't think it was unreasonable that you would want to show a new baby to the rest of your family.

Some VJ members told me that my intent doesn't matter but that's exactly what they approved the wife on was the intent of her family. What the wife and myself intend to do which was return to Vietnam as the wife's parents help care for the baby and I have to go to India for a work contract and being in Vietnam is just easier. On the flip side if the wife went alone I think she would have been denied. I also think we got lucky with the CO.

When we got outside I talked to the wife about what they asked and she said they only asked a dozen questions about why she wanted to go to the US and who she was traveling with and about my job. They asked about her I-130 on file which she told them it just got transferred and that she would be in Vietnam for the interview. The only paper they wanted to see was our son's US passport and my US passport. We didn't bring paperwork for the baby but the wife said we were both right outside hence the invite.

She did say a few of other applicant's would just ramble on and wined up hanging themselves in half truths or get asked the same question twice in which the answers changed. People are really unprepared for the double questions. My wife only answered the questions they asked. I'm convinced these CO's can smell out bullsh!t in a field full of cowsh!t. If part of your story doesn't add up or you don't interview well your boned.

At least this proves my point to the nay sayers that it is not worth trying. If you want to try for a B2 while your waiting go for it.

[RhettVoe 281]

COs are not stupid, nor naive....anyway, congrats....see you in a month or so..

[Chris & Trinh 15]

Went for the interview with the wife and as advised by VJ members the baby and myself had to wait outside. So we went to the coffee bean across the street and waited. One hour later the phone rings and the wife tells me the CO gave her a letter of invitation to come inside and that the CO wants to see me and the baby. After I get inside the CO asks for my passport and I see him look at my Vietnam visa exemption and then he asks about my employment contract in India. He sees my employment visa for India in my passport while I explain that I work in India and live in Vietnam one month on and one month off. He questions this and I say that I'm a Chief Engineer in the US Merchant Marine working on a Drillship. The CO says that explains a lot and approves the wife's B2 visa.

Apparently the CO didn't think it was unreasonable that you would want to show a new baby to the rest of your family.

Some VJ members told me that my intent doesn't matter but that's exactly what they approved the wife on was the intent of her family. What the wife and myself intend to do which was return to Vietnam as the wife's parents help care for the baby and I have to go to India for a work contract and being in Vietnam is just easier. On the flip side if the wife went alone I think she would have been denied. I also think we got lucky with the CO.

When we got outside I talked to the wife about what they asked and she said they only asked a dozen questions about why she wanted to go to the US and who she was traveling with and about my job. They asked about her I-130 on file which she told them it just got transferred and that she would be in Vietnam for the interview. The only paper they wanted to see was our son's US passport and my US passport. We didn't bring paperwork for the baby but the wife said we were both right outside hence the invite.

She did say a few of other applicant's would just ramble on and wined up hanging themselves in half truths or get asked the same question twice in which the answers changed. People are really unprepared for the double questions. My wife only answered the questions they asked. I'm convinced these CO's can smell out bullsh!t in a field full of cowsh!t. If part of your story doesn't add up or you don't interview well your boned.

At least this proves my point to the nay sayers that it is not worth trying. If you want to try for a B2 while your waiting go for it.

Congrats on the approval!!! Amazing here in Vietnam. I'll be the first to admit that I'm eating crow!

[JRF 117]

Congratulations!

[No name 88 48]

Thanks guys. I was shocked when she got the approved stamp on her paper. I guess we come across as trustworthy people.

[No name 88 48]

Got the wife's passport back in the mail today to our house in HCMC. It's actually a multiple entry B2 visa good for 1 year. This keeps getting better and better.