Amount of Money Needed to get approved

[electronicmaji 2]

Is there a specific guideline to how much income/money in the bank/money on hand/ a person should have in order to get approved for a Tourist Visa?

[apple21 953]

There's no specific required "amount" and don't pretend to put cash in your bank that you won't be able to explain/prove where you got it from.

What you need to show are your strong ties to your home country. Your reasons for returning like family (parents/spouse/child), a stable job, properties under your name (car, house, land, apartment, condo...).

Edited January 28, 2014 by apple21

[mary81 2]

Is there a specific guideline to how much income/money in the bank/money on hand/ a person should have in order to get approved for a Tourist Visa?

If 1.M US dollars are available and you can prove its yours. You are most likely to get permission to enter, link below.

http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/eb-5-immigrant-investor

[electronicmaji 2]

There's no specific required "amount" and don't pretend to put cash in your bank that you won't be able to explain/prove where you got it from.

What you need to show are your strong ties to your home country. Your reasons for returning like family (parents/spouse/child), a stable job, properties under your name (car, house, land, apartment, condo...).

In third world countries there's honestly no lack of ways to not explain money in the bank because there is no record of income for most workers as said amounts are not reported to the government or anyone because there just aren't taxes on them in the first world.

Essentially it's very difficult to ascertain how much someone could be making in their home country when there's very little in terms of centralized job reports.

But I want to know clearly if having a good amount of funds in a bank make them more likely to approve you for entry.

[aaron2020 11,651]

In third world countries there's honestly no lack of ways to not explain money in the bank because there is no record of income for most workers as said amounts are not reported to the government or anyone because there just aren't taxes on them in the first world.

Essentially it's very difficult to ascertain how much someone could be making in their home country when there's very little in terms of centralized job reports.

But I want to know clearly if having a good amount of funds in a bank make them more likely to approve you for entry.

You are applying for a visa to the US. You are not applying for a visa to a Third World country.

Just because you come from a country where nobody keeps honest records, there's no reason for the US to accept that.

The US can always ask for proof where the money came from.

Once again, there is no set amount. There is no magic number that you have to have in your bank account.

Having money in your bank account is only one of many factors and considering issuing a visa.

Edited January 28, 2014 by aaron2020

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

If you can show that you have had over 30K USD in an account for more than a year that you have held for years and it did NOT appear in the account as a lump sum deposit your chances of being denied for lack of funds drops. You still have to overcome the part about proving you have no immigrant intent.

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You are applying for a visa to the US. You are not applying for a visa to a Third World country.

Just because you come from a country where nobody keeps honest records, there's no reason for the US to accept that.

The US can always ask for proof where the money came from.

Once again, there is no set amount. There is no magic number that you have to have in your bank account.

Having money in your bank account is only one of many factors and considering issuing a visa.

There's no way to demonstrate certifiable proof where something comes from in most third world countries.

That's the thing you don't comprehend.

50% or more of the population work for small businesses that pay no taxes and don't keep payrolls.

So they can ask for "proof" where the money came from, and you can go over to your boss who's a good friend and ask him to write a letter saying he paid you so and so this year. But he can write down whatever amount he wants because he's not required by law to report any of that money to the state because there are no taxes on businesses that make more than a certain amount a year. And that amount is specifically really high. And the USA probably doesn't even have access to that information even if said business did make said amount of money.

The concept of proving where the money came from is completely foreign in most third world societies and something that only enters the mind of a American. Because you get a payroll check at the end of a month, and you have to file yearly reports to the government of your income. But most third world countries don't work that way unless you make massive amounts of money. And a lot have areas in the country where no one pays income taxes no matter how much they pay.

Althought 75% of the people in these countries don't have bank accounts in the first place because you have to have some ridiculous amount like $5,000 of balance to not get charged fees and that's nearly what some people make in a year in a lot of them.

So the amount of money they look for is specifically 30k a year? That's all I wanted to know, see. Simple answer.

[aaron2020 11,651]

Simple answer. No. The amount they look for is not $30,000.

I understand that records are hard to come by.

You don't seem to understand that the US doesn't care.

[Teddy B 17,252]

There's no way to demonstrate certifiable proof where something comes from in most third world countries.

That's the thing you don't comprehend.

50% or more of the population work for small businesses that pay no taxes and don't keep payrolls.

So they can ask for "proof" where the money came from, and you can go over to your boss who's a good friend and ask him to write a letter saying he paid you so and so this year. But he can write down whatever amount he wants because he's not required by law to report any of that money to the state because there are no taxes on businesses that make more than a certain amount a year. And that amount is specifically really high. And the USA probably doesn't even have access to that information even if said business did make said amount of money.

The concept of proving where the money came from is completely foreign in most third world societies and something that only enters the mind of a American. Because you get a payroll check at the end of a month, and you have to file yearly reports to the government of your income. But most third world countries don't work that way unless you make massive amounts of money. And a lot have areas in the country where no one pays income taxes no matter how much they pay.

Althought 75% of the people in these countries don't have bank accounts in the first place because you have to have some ridiculous amount like $5,000 of balance to not get charged fees and that's nearly what some people make in a year in a lot of them.

So the amount of money they look for is specifically 30k a year? That's all I wanted to know, see. Simple answer.

You make a great case as to why it's more difficult to obtain a US visa from a 3rd world country.