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Hello everyone,

Please I hope anyone can help me with my- I think difficult issue.

Here is my story: Few years ago I’ve graduated from US University (in FL) and received my diploma, all this time I had F-1 student visa, everything was fine and legal. Right after graduation I have decided to go to my country (Russia) for little summer vocation, and then I was planning to go back to US for my OPT that was supposed to be for one year after graduation, but the thing is that when I went to US embassy (Moscow) to get the visa, the consular denied my visa explaining that I have my diploma now and that means that I don’t have strong ties with my home country and I might never come back from US if gives me a visa. Anyways, I ended up staying in Russia for 2 years and working, but then I’ve decided to apply again for F-1 student after I got accepted to US university (I wanted to receive second undergraduate Degree), so surprisingly I got F-1 student visa again. So I went to US again and under some personal circumstances I didn’t go to school I was supposed to attend. And for the whole year (Visa was issued for one year) I was living in US but didn’t go to school. Before visa expiration I returned to my country and live here since. Now my problem is that I want to go to USA again, doesn’t matter on which visa I enter the country, but does anyone think I will have a trouble receiving Tourist visa if I apply???? I mean, will my entire past visa background affect issuance of Tourist visa???

Thank you everyone in advance that will help me with my question.

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Yes it will affect you. At best, you get some questions about it at interview. At worst, you will be denied (this is more likely as you abused the previous visa).

Did you work illegally while on the F1? Do you have plenty of funds to show now to support yourself while on the tourist visa?

Bye: Penguin

Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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Yes it will affect you. At best, you get some questions about it at interview. At worst, you will be denied (this is more likely as you abused the previous visa).

Did you work illegally while on the F1? Do you have plenty of funds to show now to support yourself while on the tourist visa?

Thank you for answer, and yes exactly I abused previous visa. Yes I have plenty of funds to support myself, will it help? Yes I worked illigaly on my F-1 status. Also, what if I apply for F-1 student visa again, if I will get accepted to Grad. school? Tourist visa or F-1 better in my case?

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ireland
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Tourist and Student visas are for different purposes, which one do you need?

If you didn't attend school last time because of financial reasons, having plenty of funds now may help. How long have ypu been back in Russia? The longer the better. If you apply for another F1, be prepared to explain why you want to study in the USA.

Bye: Penguin

Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: India
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Hmmm.... there could be a ban on you, as school should have reported you back to USCIS as no show.

Which means you were out of status and working illegally, even you have funds or not I dont think you stand a good chance on either B1/B2 or F1 visa.

Anyway on B1/2 you cannot go to school, so you need to state your real purpose of visit and apply for correct visa.

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Hello everyone,

Please I hope anyone can help me with my- I think difficult issue.

Here is my story: Few years ago I’ve graduated from US University (in FL) and received my diploma, all this time I had F-1 student visa, everything was fine and legal. Right after graduation I have decided to go to my country (Russia) for little summer vocation, and then I was planning to go back to US for my OPT that was supposed to be for one year after graduation, but the thing is that when I went to US embassy (Moscow) to get the visa, the consular denied my visa explaining that I have my diploma now and that means that I don’t have strong ties with my home country and I might never come back from US if gives me a visa. Anyways, I ended up staying in Russia for 2 years and working, but then I’ve decided to apply again for F-1 student after I got accepted to US university (I wanted to receive second undergraduate Degree), so surprisingly I got F-1 student visa again. So I went to US again and under some personal circumstances I didn’t go to school I was supposed to attend. And for the whole year (Visa was issued for one year) I was living in US but didn’t go to school. Before visa expiration I returned to my country and live here since. Now my problem is that I want to go to USA again, doesn’t matter on which visa I enter the country, but does anyone think I will have a trouble receiving Tourist visa if I apply???? I mean, will my entire past visa background affect issuance of Tourist visa???

Thank you everyone in advance that will help me with my question.

Your student visa was valid for one year conditional on you attending school. You violated the term of the visa by not attending school. It doesn't matter if you left before the visa expired.

Did you know that the school is required to report your attendance to US immigration? Some of the 9/11 terrorists entered the US on student visas and never attended school. After 9/11, the SEVIS system requires school to report and track foreign students to the Dept. of Homeland Security. Homeland Security is in charge of US immigration. There is now a record that you went to the US on a student visa and did not attend school.

You have some major problems. It's doubtful that you will get any kind of visa to the US at this point.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEVIS

After the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it was again discovered that the student visa system had been exploited by terrorists to enter the country. Hani Hanjour entered the United States on a student visa but never even showed up on campus. No timely notifications were made, and he was not heard from again until the day of the attacks.[2] As part of the response to the attacks, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, which again mandated the creation of a new digitized system to track international students and visitors in the United States. Funding was established for this system, which later became known as SEVIS—the Student Exchange and Visitors Information System. All schools and programs in the United States hosting international students and scholars were required to begin using SEVIS by January 30, 2003. SEVIS has since gone through six major release versions to resolve technical problems and accommodate new reporting requirements set by federal law, as well as to simplify the process and make the system easier to use for students and universities alike.

Mandatory reporting requirements

Schools and programs approved to host students and scholars on an F, J, or M visa are required to report certain information about international visitors in SEVIS. Reporting requirements are established by federal law and vary according to visa type.

Information that must be reported includes:

Change of legal name

Change of U.S. address

Change of major field of study

Change of education degree level

Change of funding

Authorization for on-campus employment

In addition, schools and programs are required to report certain events that constitute a violation of the international visitor’s visa status, such as academic suspension, criminal conviction, failure to enroll and unauthorized off-campus employment.

All required information must be reported in SEVIS within 21 days of notification of the change or event. Failure to report information in a timely fashion may result in the loss of the school or program’s certification to host international students and/or scholars.

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