i-134 Sponsorship

[WeGuyGal 1,052]

4 hours ago, Voni said:

He drove to the US Embassy and talked to someone there. That's what I was told, anyways. I do not know the full details. 

US embassies don't work like that.  Sounds like he spoke to security personnel..

[bakphx1 789]

There's a thing called a letter of invitation, where you offer to give a place to stay and make sure the person has food and transportation.  It may or may not help as it's not official and binding like a sponsorship.  In some cases I've heard of it hurting if they think the person sending the letter is romantically involved.  But that's still for a tourist visa and all the rest of the requirements apply.  How useful the letter of invitation is depends on the country, how well the person qualifies for a visa otherwise, etc.  It may help, but isn't all that powerful. 

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The one thing I have noticed over the years is the impossibility of providing accurate comments where a friend who obviously only knows bits of the situation is asking.

 

 

[Voni 0]

9 hours ago, TNJ17 said:

Your friend’s foreign friend needs to show the embassy at the time of his tourist visa interview that he can support himself during his visit in the US. Your US citizen friend can’t do anything for his friend as there is no such thing as sponsoring a tourist visa like others have said. Also, just to add salt to the wound, if your USC pays for his friend’s tickets, and places to stay and whatnot that may well end in denial because the embassy will see that the foreigner applying has no means to support himself is at risk of immigrating on a tourist visa. He’s gonna need to show he has strong ties to his home country (current job, taxes, bank statements, properties in his name, investments, etc), which I may say might be safe to assume he doesn’t because he can’t support himself. It may be a long shot for him to get a tourist visa unfortunately. 

Possibly, I do know that he owns a house in his country and is in the process of building another. He has been working in the oil field from what I am told. 

[geowrian 22,338]

3 hours ago, bakphx1@aol.com said:

There's a thing called a letter of invitation, where you offer to give a place to stay and make sure the person has food and transportation.  It may or may not help as it's not official and binding like a sponsorship.  In some cases I've heard of it hurting if they think the person sending the letter is romantically involved.  But that's still for a tourist visa and all the rest of the requirements apply.  How useful the letter of invitation is depends on the country, how well the person qualifies for a visa otherwise, etc.  It may help, but isn't all that powerful. 

Yeah, there are a lot of rumors around on both sides regarding invitation letters & such. The only official stance is what @SusieQQQ posted:

Note: Visa applicants must qualify on the basis of the applicant's residence and ties abroad, rather than assurances from U.S. family and friends. A letter of invitation or Affidavit of Support is not needed to apply for a nonimmigrant tourist visa. If you do choose to bring a letter of invitation or Affidavit of Support to your interview, please remember that it is not one of the factors that we use in determining whether to issue or deny a nonimmigrant tourist visa.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-visit/visitor.html

[TNJ17 1,329]

20 minutes ago, Voni said:

Possibly, I do know that he owns a house in his country and is in the process of building another. He has been working in the oil field from what I am told. 

Hmmmm.... then it sounds like he doesn’t need financial help then. He should have no problem getting a tourist visa then. 

[Voni 0]

On 1/15/2018 at 11:36 AM, WeGuyGal said:

US embassies don't work like that.  Sounds like he spoke to security personnel..

Sorry for the late reply. I actually talked to the guy. He said he spoke to a worker at the Embassy not security.

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let us know if he gets a visa.