Answering the immediate relative question for B2 application, prior to filing for a K1 visa

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True...the comment about applying for the wrong type of visa conveyed the CO's doubts about the BF returning home...more detailed explanations are rare because all that will usually do is instigate more fruitless, but time consuming arguments at the window, or give the applicant false hopes about lacking some particular piece of paper..

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again, persistent tourist visa abuse by the citizens of many countries has brought this about...namely, a raising of the 214b bar...after all, ask yourselves, if you were a CO, and discovered that a significant percentage of visas you approved to certain demographic groups were being used for something else, how many stories would you then believe from those same demographic groups in the future? A heck of lot fewer...(because in many countries, the stories/reasons for returning are nearly the same....a job (if at all) paying a modest wage, relatively short time on said job, living with parents ('oh, but I love my parents dearly and would never leave them because one of them is sick or elderly and needs my care....'), no ownership of property other than the last minute transfer of title to the young, single applicant, and occasionally, the far from credible story about the local fiancée whom they will marry when they return (which doesn't go too far in explaining why this young, single individual needs to visit another young, single individual in the US while allegedly engaged to someone else)...

On the B1 application front, there is the ever popular..'oh, there is this convention (on a topic that has no connections whatsoever to their occupation) I must attend (or have always wanted to attend) and here's my generic invitation to it (that the applicant printed out that morning on their home computer!)...or the still popular but on the decline as far as COs buying this one...'I have to go for 'knowledge transfer'.. a euphemism for working....

Imagine hearing these stories 100+ times a day...then finding out that of the X or Y number of visas you approved, a very high percentage of the visa recipients had the ever popular mind change upon arrival...you can see the long term effect...