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I have done engineering in computer science and then mba and have worked for 2 years in India. Now i have applied for MS in computer science and got admission in a university.  During my visa interview, will my MBA have any negative effect on getting the visa? Since i want to do MS in computer science i applied for this program. Will they ask why i want to do MS after MBA? Read more

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F1 Student Visa Interview Questions

Getting International Student F1 Visa stamping is an thrilling experience. Evey student have to face the same amount tension and process of preparing the documents for the visa interview.  During the process, its common to search for the list of questions they could be asked during the interview.

Here’s possible list of questions for F1 student visa interview. I stumbled across these questions and you might get some of the questions from here, but  you might be asked different question and its completely based on your profile.

Student Visa F1 interview Questions

College and University

1. Why the specified university?
2. Which universities did you apply to? (Both admits and rejects)
3. Which universities accepted you?
4. Where have you done your under-graduation?
5. What is your undergraduate GPA/Percentage?
6. Tell about your university?
7. Mention some professor’s names?
8. When and where did you get your bachelor’s degree?
9. Why this university and not other universities?
10. How long will you study in USA?
11. How do you know about this university?
12. What is your academic background?
13. Do you plan to study Ph D after MS?
14. Why did you apply to these universities?
15. These subjects are also taught in other universities also but why this university?

Bank and Finance Related

1. Who is sponsoring you?
2. What does your father do?
3. What is your father’s income?
4. What is your university yearly expense?
5. Have you got any loans?
6. Show your Pass Book/ Bank Statement?
7. How will you finance your education for 2years or 3 years? (generally you
   have to prove that you can fund the first year of your education but we
   Suggest that you be prepared with this answer)
8. Your passbook shows that a large amount of money has recently been
   deposited? How do you explain that?
9. What is your father’s salary? / How long has he been working here?

Relatives and Family Members

1. How many brother and sisters do you have?
2. Do you have any relatives in USA?
3. What is your mother?
4. Where did your brother/ parents complete their studies?
5. Where do your parents live?
6. Do you have a brother/ sister, or any other relative already at this
   university?

Work/Job Related

1. Why are you leaving you current job? (if you are working)
2. Show your experience certificate?

General Questions

1. Why did you choose US but not Canada or Germany?
2. What kind of good things do you know about America?
3. What do you expect after returning back?
4. Why do you plan to do MS?
5. Why are your GRE/ TOEFL scores low?
6. You look like a potential immigrant or I don’t think you will come back?
7. What do you know about US education?
8. Why are you applying for Fall only?
9. What will you do after completing MS? What are your plans after graduation?
10. Why study in USA?
11. Did you get any scholarship?
12. Tell me how you can prove that you are going to come back?
13. Have you ever been to US?
14. What will you do after coming back?
15. Do you know anyone (in USA) in your university?
16. What will you do if your visa is rejected?
17. Will you come home during summer?
18. Why do you think the university is giving you a scholarship?
19. Why do you wish to study in the USA and not in India?
20. If you have changed your field of specialization (for e.g. If you are BE
21. Mechanical and opting of MS in Computer Science) then tell the reasons !!!

If you know other questions you can be asked or you were asked during the F1 Student Visa interview, you can write a comment to this article. I like to know if the above questions were useful. Just pen down your thoughts in the comments below.

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F-1 Student Visa Interview Tips

Getting U.S. Visa is the final part after long wait to get admission in Graduate School. Every student have to go through the U.S. Visa interview process, interview tips in this article will help students prepare for the interview. If you have good knowledge about F1 interview process, then you have won half the battle and with confidence and positive thinking, you will get visa stamping in no  time.

F1 Visa Interview Basics

• Proper Documentation
• How you present yourself during the interview
• Way you answer the questions.

In this article I’m going to go behind and into the visa process. You could have read lots of student visa experience but things techniques and tips listed below will give different insight about Visa interview process.

U.S. F1 Visa Interview Process

Visa interview officers are well trained persons. Their job is to find

• Who you are?
• Do you have academic capability to complete the studies in U.S.
• Do you have enough financial resources to cover the cost of education in U.S.

You could have done mistakes in documents, or they could carry fake documents related to finance, degree certificates, property documents. VO job is to make a decision about the you in few minutes. They have to make that decision in average 3 minutes or so. For some students it might be more.

You might have all the right credentials, but F1  Visa could be denied and someone with fake documents might get F1 Visa stamping, so its that few minutes, you have to present and express yourself to impress them and get student visa.

Now, lets assume you are in the queue waiting to be called for the interview.

Inside Visa Interview

• When you walk to the window, have a big smile and wish them. You could say Hi, Hello, Good Morning, Good Evening, anything is fine.
• Eye Contact is MUST. From the moment you walk-in towards the window, look deep into their eyes and smile and wish them “Hello”.
• If you don’t make good eye contact, then you are reducing your chances to get F1 Visa. Now, you made good eye contact, then its about how to present your answers.

• Next big thing – DON’T LIE for the questions asked.
  
• If you lie, then your entry into U.S.A is not possible for lifetime. So, don’t even think about lying to get Visa.
• Some have mastered the art and the lie they speak will be convincing. If you belong to that category, don’t mess it up (again that’s not recommend)
• If you are not sure and not comfortable to make up an answer, then DON’T LIE
• Now, you will be convinced and made a decision, not to lie. Then VO asks this question “What’s your plan after Graduation?”

Majority of student will say answers like this..

+ “My field is growing in India, I will good job opportunities, when I come back”

+ “I will work for 1 year in OPT period, gain the experience and come back”

• Do you really think answers like I will return back to India will suffice them? They know how many student go to U.S. every year, how many return back.

• VO know, why would you have to spend $40,000 for 2 years and come back to India get Rs40,000 per month. They know for sure students returning back to home country is very less. It will be very few percentage of students return.

• So, for such  question speak the trust  “After Graduation, I will party hard, and then will look to spend my OPT period working for US company” that’s simple and straight forward answer. Other way is to say, I plan to work for few years, get U.S. corporate life experience and then plan to come back.

• I know the above answer is much different from what you have on your list. But, the above answer should work.

• Next, for the question related to finance documents, make sure you know the source of each funds in the bank statement. VO will ask about transactions, only if they feel something might be wrong in the finance documents.

In general, it will be like

+ Who is your sponsor?

+ What does sponsor do?

+ How much is his/her income?

• Make sure you have bank statement for student visa f1 availability.

In coming posts, I will write about bank documents tailored for Student F1 Visa, how much bank balance to show, how to create a fund flow chart for student visa interview. Few of my friends have got F1 student visa after getting rejected for 3-4 times. Some students prefer to use the same bank statement that was used for college admission. Those statements used for college admission will be old and probably funds showed during college admission will be less. For student visa, you would need to show more bank balance.