B2 visa for a student

[Shakur Clement]

Hi,
My name is Abdul Shekur from Ghana..My friend, who is a U.S citizen has invited me to spend my summer vacation with her and her family for 3 weeks. She has filled an affidavitt of sponsorship..She has completed all her paperwork..She will take care of all expenses during this trip..I, on the other hand is still a first year student in the university. I dont work, single, have no property in my country now..will a letter from my school and school ID convince the interview officer that I have strong ties with my country?. I need help on this..If its not enough.. What should I do

[inadmissible]

The odds are slim that you'll be granted a tourist visa.

Your life would be so much better if you came to the United States and overstayed your visa. You would be silly to come here and then go back to your Ghanian university.

Consular officers will assume that you are a rational, reasonable young man. They will not issue you a visa.

[Shakur Clement]

Reply..

So what should I do to increase my chances of getting a visa.

[Shakur Clement]

Family used as ties

Can i use my family and my school documents as my tied. I do have bank accounts with some cash on them, just not enough to sponsor the whole trip.. So can i print the statements and add that too to my school ID, pics of my family and use these as my ties to my country...?

[inadmissible]

So what should I do to increase my chances of getting a visa.

If you want a US nonimmigrant visa, you need to make a good life for yourself in Ghana.
For example, a lucrative career, spouse and children, property that you have to tend to, and ties to social/political groups.

When you have that life in Ghana, when you come visit the United States, you will feel compelled to return home.

[Shakur Clement]

Tourist visa not nonimmigrant visa

Thank you inadmissible for ur answers but i think you dont understand my questions. I am not going for an immigrant visa. I am only going to visit a friend and for tourism purposes. I dont have the intention of living in the US. I have more important things in my country now than US. i am still in school. I appreciate what you did but your last answer is not helpful to me now. Im asking about Nonimmigrant visa and not immigrant visa. I just need to know the documents i need to send to prove my ties with my country..

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TOURIST VISA AND NOT IMMIGRANT VISA...

[Shakur Clement]

I need help on ties

Inadmissible i think i didnt read your last answer well. I just read it again. Sorry about that mistake. There should be another way to prove my ties. I got the impression that students like me are also qualified for a B2 visa..

[inadmissible]

Visa applicants are not bound to their parents/siblings in the same way that they are bound to their spouse/children. Photographs of your happy family will do nothing to persuade a consular officer to issue you a visa.

It goes back to the question, would your life be better if you returned to Ghana, or would your life be better if you overstayed your visa in the United States?

Yes, students and other young people CAN demonstrate non-immigrant intent. But those successful applicants don't get their visa because they love their family and are serious about their undergraduate education. They get their visas because their life would be better if they returned to their homeland rather than live as an illegal alien in the United States. Most of these visa applicants are "second generation visa applicants", that is their parents had visited the US before on tourist visas, later took these kids on family vacations there.

For some visa applicants, life in America is very difficult. Here in America, you are nobody. Nobody really cares what post your father holds at some bank or political party. You have to wash your own dishes, or at least load a dishwashing machine. You have to wash and fold your own clothes. Very few people can afford to hire someone to tend to their garden (above and beyond just cutting the grass), or drive them and their children to work and school. You even have to clean your own toilet.

On the other hand, for some people, life in America is so much better than living at home. Some people are delighted to shine a strangers shoes for $10, or cut their grass for $20, work at a restaurant for $8/hour, or do construction work for $100/day.

Consular officers spend 1 or 2 minutes during the interview with you. They quickly size you up and make snap judgements. That is their job. They do not try to predict the future. They make decisions based on the preponderance of the evidence. I don't want to discourage you from applying for a visa, after all, all you have to lose is the $160 fee. Bring your parents bank statements and employment letters, it will help show that your life would be worse living as an illegal alien in the United States.

[Shakur Clement]

Thank u

Thank you inadmissible for your help. It has been helpful.. I will keep that in mind..its just that i think i should have visited this site before applying and scheduling an interview appointment..I will be going for the interview in June..I will still go for the interview though...Thanks for your help