Apply for tourist visa to USA, Yes or No?

[Mel&Lal 12]

Yes would not hurt to try!

[stevie b 141]

  On 7/29/2013 at 11:00 PM, Dave&Roza said:

I see I am in the minority but IMHO, I think your chances of obtaining a tourist visa for your wife have increased since filing the spousal visa. Why? Because you cannot have her come to the US on a tourist visa and suddenly decide to get married and then file for AOS while she is in the US. The USCIS would ban her for life for visa fraud and you would have no good defense. The only course left for her to immigrate to the US is to complete the spousal visa which will require her to attend an interview in India, so she has a very, very good reason to leave the US and go back to India. IMHO a better reason than someone with property, a job, and family. I would say that she apply and let it be known that a spousal visa is pending. The worst that can happen is you are out the application fee and will have to claim this denial on the DS-160 form submitted for the interview. My wife was denied her first time she applied for a tourist visa and she was approved for two tourist visas and a K-1 visa. You will not know unless you try.

Good luck,

Dave

IMO.. I totally disagree with the increased chances

my wife went for a tourist interview with plenty of ties.. denied in two seconds

I do think it is both embassy specific as well as individual specific though