F1 Visa Interview Experience

[Nicole]

Hello, everybody!

I would like to share my visa interview experince. I am from Romania, I got accepted at UConn, they offered me full tuition waiver+a graduate assisstantship+a small fellowship for the first year.
I got an F1 visa for 5 years (mai 2004-mai 2009) a couple of days back.

I am telling you the interview is A MERE FORMALITY if you are fully funded by the university.
The only document that was carefully studied by the visa officer was my I-20. She didnt ask me to show my GRE or TOEFL results (but I had them with me, just in case), she didnt look at all at my acceptance letter that I got from the Department.
The inteview took less than 10 minutes and the questions I was asked were in this order:

1.Where do you work now? (I told the name of the company and my job)
2. Do you plan to work in the United States? (I said: no, because it s illegal. But I will assist the Economics Department for 15 hours per week)
3. Where are you going to live there? (I said I would arrange for on campus housing)
4. Why did you choose this University?
5. What do you plan to do with this diploma after graduation?

She didnt wait for elaborate answers. I answered in a sentence or maximum two. And while I was answering her questions, she examined the I-20, ticked the form that I filled in and checked something in her computer.

My advise is to be short in answering, do not give looong explanations because if the officer needs them, he/she wont hesitate to ask more.

Good Luck to those who are waiting to get a visa!

Nicole

[sateeshp_in]

<font face="Arial"></font id="Arial"><font face="Verdana">dear nicole
i am very happy to see your Interview experiece as I am preparing for Visa for US on this June 22nd.
i am INDIAN and got admission at Uni. of Southern Mississippi, in PH.D
i got full funding means 28,700per year where the school early expences are 20,400/- which is 8000/- less to that funding.
actually I am much bothered what questions like I will face and what I have to answer..
after seeing your post I am very free and how the way I have to answer..

thank you very much for this..

i'll appreciate if I can get more questions and answers from your experience...

thank you
urs truly
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