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Hey all,
As the title says, I want to bring my girlfriend, who is Chinese, home with me next year. My little sister will be getting married and I have to go, and what better opportunity is there to introduce someone to a new family when everyone is stressed out?
Kidding aside, she and I really are not sure what how to go about applying for the visa. She's heard a lot of stories where people have said it's very easy for her to be rejected because she's in her 20's (I guess a lot of women will go there to husband hunt and just stay). When we book a flight, it will be round-trip. We'll go for maybe 10 days and come back to China.
She has talked to a few travel agencies, and their advice has been to basically say that she is going for travel and leave the whole wedding part of it out. They are telling her to: *make sure she has a bank statement showing 10,000 rmb to 50,000 rmb (different agencies give her different numbers) *let them make her a travel itinerary even though she won't follow it.
So basically, our question is this: what is the best way to apply for the visa and actually get it? Is she better off going through an agency and letting them handle it, or should we handle this on our own? If we tell them it's for a wedding, would my family need to send her a wedding invite or an invitation letter?
tl;dr What is best, least likely to get rejected way to apply for an American travel visa?
As the title says, I want to bring my girlfriend, who is Chinese, home with me next year. My little sister will be getting married and I have to go, and what better opportunity is there to introduce someone to a new family when everyone is stressed out?
Kidding aside, she and I really are not sure what how to go about applying for the visa. She's heard a lot of stories where people have said it's very easy for her to be rejected because she's in her 20's (I guess a lot of women will go there to husband hunt and just stay). When we book a flight, it will be round-trip. We'll go for maybe 10 days and come back to China.
She has talked to a few travel agencies, and their advice has been to basically say that she is going for travel and leave the whole wedding part of it out. They are telling her to: *make sure she has a bank statement showing 10,000 rmb to 50,000 rmb (different agencies give her different numbers) *let them make her a travel itinerary even though she won't follow it.
So basically, our question is this: what is the best way to apply for the visa and actually get it? Is she better off going through an agency and letting them handle it, or should we handle this on our own? If we tell them it's for a wedding, would my family need to send her a wedding invite or an invitation letter?
tl;dr What is best, least likely to get rejected way to apply for an American travel visa?
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