Please Help! B1/B2 Application in Process

[scotsmonkey 0]

Please help! There is soo much information with regards to the b1/b2 visa application process...

Basic backround:

I have just returned from the US after spending 3 months with my girlfriend and we are very keen to get me back there asap. However, the cost of returning to the UK every 3 months with the ESTA Visa Waiver is just to costly. My girlfriend is currently employed and earnning 60k (dollars) a year and has agreed to sponsor me and her family are supporting my application by allowing me to stay at their residence and to put their address on the application. I do not have sufficiant funds to sponsor myself with the application.

Where I am with the process:

I have recently (TODAY) filled in the DS-160 form, completed the photo upload.

Questions:

How should I provide evidence of my girlfiends agreement to sponsor me? (I listed her as my sponsor within the DS-160)

What should I do next with my application?

Thank you for taking the time to read and hopfully help me with my questions. Getting through this process really does mean the world to us!

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

Your girlfriend cannot sponsor you, a tourist visa is based on you and your ties to where you are from. She can write a letter saying why she wants you to visit and that she will pay any expenses, but even having a girlfriend over in the USA can make getting a tourist visa more difficult because they will be worried about your immigrant intent- ie you clearly have no job in your home country, plus a girlfriend you might marry and trying to stay in the USA after.

[canadian_wife 1,827]

Wow, you just got back and are applying for a B2 visa? The CO will see this as being desperate to go back to the US.

What ties do you have to your home country? It don't matter that your gf will sponsor you, in fact it will probably work against you. So what do YOU have to combat this?

Good luck

[Teddy B 17,252]

Please help! There is soo much information with regards to the b1/b2 visa application process...

Basic backround:

I have just returned from the US after spending 3 months with my girlfriend and we are very keen to get me back there asap. However, the cost of returning to the UK every 3 months with the ESTA Visa Waiver is just to costly. My girlfriend is currently employed and earnning 60k (dollars) a year and has agreed to sponsor me and her family are supporting my application by allowing me to stay at their residence and to put their address on the application. I do not have sufficiant funds to sponsor myself with the application.

Where I am with the process:

I have recently (TODAY) filled in the DS-160 form, completed the photo upload.

Questions:

How should I provide evidence of my girlfiends agreement to sponsor me? (I listed her as my sponsor within the DS-160)

What should I do next with my application?

Thank you for taking the time to read and hopfully help me with my questions. Getting through this process really does mean the world to us!

Everything you have posted will work against you. You have given all the reasons of why you would not want to leave the US, it works the other way around. And piggybacking on a 3 month stay will be an immediate flag. The chances of you getting a tourist visa will be slim and none. You might want to save the application fee and start thinking about having your girlfriend come visit you in the UK.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I agree, it seems as if you have been going back and forth on the VWP and staying the full 3 months each time and now you want to go back and forth on a B2 visa. A visitor visa is not for de facto living in the US, and given your lack of monetary ties, I think you don't have a good chance.

[villaspurs 65]

Just adding to the above information: once you are rejected for a tourist visa, it becomes much more difficult to get an approved ESTA for traveling on the VWP. I'd really consider whether or not it's worth it to go through with the interview. Based on what you've written here, it seems quite unlikely (although not impossible) that you'll be approved. If you aren't approved, visiting your girlfriend becomes much, much more difficult. Look through this section for some examples--I think FuzzleFace is a recent one--for more information.

Good luck!

[scotsmonkey 0]

This all seems so negitive... I've visited once on a visa waiver and it is impossible for her to vist within the next 12 months, due to work committments. I find it so frustrating that the world is getting smaller and yet two people from across the world can't hold, or attempt to hold a solid relationship because they love and want to be together.

My application has been subbitted with her name on as a sponsor... Should I just plead innocent and say she's a friend? or what does anyone suggest?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

This all seems so negitive... I've visited once on a visa waiver and it is impossible for her to vist within the next 12 months, due to work committments. I find it so frustrating that the world is getting smaller and yet two people from across the world can't hold, or attempt to hold a solid relationship because they love and want to be together.

My application has been subbitted with her name on as a sponsor... Should I just plead innocent and say she's a friend? or what does anyone suggest?

Okay, so you only visited once on the VWP, and you stayed the full 3 months, and just got back to the UK. For a B2, you will need a really good reason why you need 6 months and not 3. What is your good reason? And what proof of ties do you have to home? How can you prove strong ties to home when you are proposing to "live" for 9 months out of the year in the US?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

While these questions and opinions may seem negative, they're EXACTLY the kind of scrutiny you're going to face when attempting to get a visa. It's best to plan and have VALID answers.

[canadian_wife 1,827]

This all seems so negitive... I've visited once on a visa waiver and it is impossible for her to vist within the next 12 months, due to work committments. I find it so frustrating that the world is getting smaller and yet two people from across the world can't hold, or attempt to hold a solid relationship because they love and want to be together.

My application has been subbitted with her name on as a sponsor... Should I just plead innocent and say she's a friend? or what does anyone suggest?

What you call 'pleading innocent' I call lying

It is clear that you have somoene special in the US, to allude to the opposite is misleading

Good luck

[Teddy B 17,252]

This all seems so negitive... I've visited once on a visa waiver and it is impossible for her to vist within the next 12 months, due to work committments. I find it so frustrating that the world is getting smaller and yet two people from across the world can't hold, or attempt to hold a solid relationship because they love and want to be together.

My application has been subbitted with her name on as a sponsor... Should I just plead innocent and say she's a friend? or what does anyone suggest?

It is very frustrating, no doubt about it, but immigration laws are in place for a very good reason. Almost everyone on this board has gone through or is going through exactly what you are going through right now. No better place to find out what it's like and what to expect than from the people that have lived it.

It is very tough to keep a long distance relationship going. It's very expensive and stressful, and it takes it's toll on both people. But most people that truly love each other find their way through it. Thanks to the world getting smaller it easier to stay in touch via e-mail, phone calls and skype. My wife and I found skype to be the best of all when we needed that fix of seeing each other but couldn't be together.

If you are both truly in love with each other, have you thought of marriage?

I wish you luck!

[richardkorea2010 15]

I think you have to think. Apply for a B2 visa, get refused, and can not apply for ESTA(VWP) again.

IF you just returned from the USA, you will be refused for a tourist visa, and be denied VWP in the future. Just my advice.

Then you would never be able to enter as a tourist again, or not for a long time. you will have to think, and think smartly,

Just my advice

[Boiler 46,003]

Too late to back put now from the B2.

What do you do that allows you to have so much time off?

You have to go through with the B2 now.

What do you do that allows you to have so much time off?