DS 160 question : Persons Traveling With You

[Robert1985 0]

Hello,

As we are filling my wife B2 visa application, we have a dispute over the appropriate answer for the question "Persons Traveling With You"

From dinsmôre page Tips for ds-160, it seem straightforward (You should answer "Yes" to this question if you are traveling with family, as part of an organized tour, or as part of a performing group or athletic team.) but my wife don't agree on the definition of traveling with.

My wife is a Cameroon citizen, living in Cameroon, in her house (and she does have the proper paperwork for the house). We want to travel to the states this summer. I'm Canadian citizen living in Canada. While I admit that we not going/traveling to the states together in the most restricted sense of "going/traveling to" (as she takes the plane form Africa to USA, and I take the car from Canada to USA and pick her up at the airport) I'd say that since we will be together during the vacation we should still indicate Yes to that answer. Also, personally I'm not applying for the Visa myself since my B2 visit sill start when I simply cross the border and state my purpose of travel.

So I wanted more experience opinion on if she should write Yes or No. Or even, if in order to write Yes I should fly to Cameroon first so we can fly together to USA. The reason I want her to write Yes, is that I want to consular to view the vacation as the couple together, as I'm the one paying for our trip. If she is considered traveling alone then she have no sufficient means of finances to show for the trip (other than having my bank's card). Am I just worrying too much ?

I know her approval chances are already below-average as she, like most women in her country, have no job. I'm not saying that they do nothing of their day, stay-at-home wife is still a respectable life choice, but it gains her no income.

I also know that she might have to give proofs about being legitimately married. I'm not too worried on that point, as we already have a lot of proof which we submitted for her Canadian PR application; which she can bring along to the interview.

[Boiler 44,972]

Probably a moot issue as she does not sound an ideal candidate for a B2, but I agree with her.

[Pkr 21]

if she is travelling from Africa to USA alone then that's what should be stated in the application form

[Chris and ZhiJia 146]

They aren't concerned about who she is meeting upon entering the US, they are concerned about people travelling with her during the boarding, flight, entry, ect.

Once she has cleared immigration the rest is irrelevant to the DS-160.

[Boiler 44,972]

Travel via Canada would be a solution.

[Robert1985 0]

All right, thank you all for your answers

we'll catch up together before arriving in the states so that we fly-in/enter together with both of our paperwork/proof/etc.

[caliliving 606]

i would show that she is applying for PR to canada as proof of her not going to obviously overstay lol i am sure having you with her when she goes thru customs will help greatly