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B2 Visitor Visa Interview for Chinese Citizen - Successful Experience
Hello to anyone checking out this post. My girlfriend, who is a Chinese citizen, just got approved for her B2 visa this past Friday in Beijing and I thought I'd share her experience on this forum to help other people out there. Of course, her experience is not going to be the same as others, but I hope it can be useful to some.
Some basic information about us:
-She is a student who is about to graduate from a three-year college, but still needs to finish her degree at another university in the fall.
-Her parents are not financially supporting her for the trip.
-She does not have a job currently, but will be starting an internship in the fall.
-I will be supporting her financially for the trip, which we stated on the DS-160 application.
-I'm an American citizen working as an English teacher at a university in China. I will leave my job to move to a different city in China in the fall, although I haven't secured a new position yet.
-We plan on traveling in the US for about 6 weeks.
According to her, the entire interview lasted about three minutes. Her interviewer was very kind and friendly, which may affect a person's chances (though you can't choose the interviewer). My girlfriend's English is fantastic, so they had the interview in English. However, the interviewers there can speak excellent Chinese. The interviewer asked four questions:
1. Where is Luke? (Did he come with you?)
2. What do you do?
3. What do you want to do in the US?
4. What does Luke do?
For the first question, she explained that I came with her to Beijing and that I was waiting for her. She supplied the interviewer with both pictures of us and pictures of her with my parents (who visited us in China about a year ago). She also showed the interviewer my actual passport. For the second question, she explained that she was completing her degree at a three year college, but would still complete a second degree at another university. She didn't even show her transcript, even though she brought it there. For the third question, she explained simply that she wanted to travel to the US and meet my friends and family. Finally, for the last question, she explained I taught English at a university and gave them my Letter of Employment from my school. So basically she just showed three documents: pictures, my passport, my letter of employment.
We prepared so many other materials according to this website, and she didn't need to use most of them! But we were glad to have them just in case. The most important thing about the interview is to explain yourself as best as you can, which my girlfriend did pretty well. The interviewer did not request any documents from her, instead my girlfriend supplied the documents every time she gave an answer, so that's a very important thing to remember. It's also important to anticipate any information you give that might be confusing to the visa officer and to be ready to explain any of that information and support it with documents. In other words, always give clear, detailed answers and support those answers with the necessary material.
By the way, CITIC Bank only gave us one receipt for the visa fee, even though some websites say we need to have two copies. But as it turned out, the embassy never asked for a second copy from her
Please remember, your experience will probably be different, but don't hesitate to ask me for more details (although I am no expert on this matter).
-Luke
Some basic information about us:
-She is a student who is about to graduate from a three-year college, but still needs to finish her degree at another university in the fall.
-Her parents are not financially supporting her for the trip.
-She does not have a job currently, but will be starting an internship in the fall.
-I will be supporting her financially for the trip, which we stated on the DS-160 application.
-I'm an American citizen working as an English teacher at a university in China. I will leave my job to move to a different city in China in the fall, although I haven't secured a new position yet.
-We plan on traveling in the US for about 6 weeks.
According to her, the entire interview lasted about three minutes. Her interviewer was very kind and friendly, which may affect a person's chances (though you can't choose the interviewer). My girlfriend's English is fantastic, so they had the interview in English. However, the interviewers there can speak excellent Chinese. The interviewer asked four questions:
1. Where is Luke? (Did he come with you?)
2. What do you do?
3. What do you want to do in the US?
4. What does Luke do?
For the first question, she explained that I came with her to Beijing and that I was waiting for her. She supplied the interviewer with both pictures of us and pictures of her with my parents (who visited us in China about a year ago). She also showed the interviewer my actual passport. For the second question, she explained that she was completing her degree at a three year college, but would still complete a second degree at another university. She didn't even show her transcript, even though she brought it there. For the third question, she explained simply that she wanted to travel to the US and meet my friends and family. Finally, for the last question, she explained I taught English at a university and gave them my Letter of Employment from my school. So basically she just showed three documents: pictures, my passport, my letter of employment.
We prepared so many other materials according to this website, and she didn't need to use most of them! But we were glad to have them just in case. The most important thing about the interview is to explain yourself as best as you can, which my girlfriend did pretty well. The interviewer did not request any documents from her, instead my girlfriend supplied the documents every time she gave an answer, so that's a very important thing to remember. It's also important to anticipate any information you give that might be confusing to the visa officer and to be ready to explain any of that information and support it with documents. In other words, always give clear, detailed answers and support those answers with the necessary material.
By the way, CITIC Bank only gave us one receipt for the visa fee, even though some websites say we need to have two copies. But as it turned out, the embassy never asked for a second copy from her
Please remember, your experience will probably be different, but don't hesitate to ask me for more details (although I am no expert on this matter).
-Luke
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