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On 6/23/2019 at 7:27 AM, nosleep said:

The reason for denials seem more stringent for some countries.  It's obviously not uniform from country to country - not owning a home or real estate was a reason given because they wanted to see this as evidence for ties to the home country.  This seems like it's just an excuse since people from many other countries don't appear to have this requirement.

 

Thanks for your responses

On the DS160 there is no question if the applicant owns any kind of land or vehicle properties. They don't ask for any financial status either.  It only asks if you're employed, who the employer is and what are your duties as an employee.  I guess they base their decision on that... If your working for a credible company and if your position is "important" enough to not leave it (also salary wise). They must have a bracket or something. 

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38 minutes ago, apple21 said:

On the DS160 there is no question if the applicant owns any kind of land or vehicle properties. They don't ask for any financial status either.  It only asks if you're employed, who the employer is and what are your duties as an employee.  I guess they base their decision on that... If your working for a credible company and if your position is "important" enough to not leave it (also salary wise). They must have a bracket or something. 

 

This is my point, It seems much more difficult for a single Chinese woman to get a tourist visa to visit the US.  There are a few countries that are just much more difficult than others.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, nosleep said:

 

This is my point, It seems much more difficult for a single Chinese woman to get a tourist visa to visit the US.  There are a few countries that are just much more difficult than others.

 

 

True, my country the Philippines is one of those difficult ones. My parents' applied for b2 visas as well and they are both already retired at the time but still the officer asked what their previous occupations were (they also indicated that on their ds160).

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

29 minutes ago, nosleep said:

 

This is my point, It seems much more difficult for a single Chinese woman to get a tourist visa to visit the US.  There are a few countries that are just much more difficult than others.

 

 

I’m curious, what in the extract you refer to makes it more difficult for a single Chinese woman to get a visa than a single European woman or a single Latin American male, for example?  All of them get asked the same questions on the DS160.

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12 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

I’m curious, what in the extract you refer to makes it more difficult for a single Chinese woman to get a visa than a single European woman or a single Latin American male, for example?  All of them get asked the same questions on the DS160.

 

It is well known, the majority do not pass the interview.  I don't have the answers as to why, but searching through VJ it seems to be pretty common.

Edited June 24, 2019 by nosleep

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3 minutes ago, nosleep said:

 

It is well known, the majority do not pass the interview.  I don't have the answers as to why, but searching through VJ it seems to be pretty common.

I'm not sure "majority" is correct, but B visa approval data is accessible to the public.

 

And again, the differences in approvals by country is largely due to past behavior by travelers of those countries.  It is all data driven.

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On 6/23/2019 at 9:25 PM, nosleep said:

Unfortunately the government doesn't seem to have the will or desire to take action on those who overstay which practically encourages further bad behavior.  As a result, there are a lot of legitimate people with the lawful intentions who pay the price... but that's getting a bit off topic here.  

I beg to differ, or at least add another perspective.

The U.S. Government is very happy to take action against those who overstay AND LEAVE the U.S. 

I speak from personal experience as someone who (significantly) overstayed VWP nearly 20 years ago and has been unable to visit the U.S. ever since and probably never will be able to again.

The ones the government seem to have no will or desire to take action against are those who overstay and never leave, at least not as tourists.

 

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

9 hours ago, nosleep said:

 

It is well known, the majority do not pass the interview.  I don't have the answers as to why, but searching through VJ it seems to be pretty common.

“It is well known”

ah, “they say”. Let’s look at some numbers. The B2 refusal rate for China is 17%, not particularly low, not particularly high. If “the majority” of single Chinese woman (what is majority? 51%? 90%?) do not pass the interview, but the overall rate is 17%, that implies the percentage of applicants that are single Chinese women must be pretty low, and that they are looked at totally differently to single men and families. Is that all also “well known”, or does the logic start looking a little faulty?

 

searching on VJ - of course! Most people who get a visa don’t come on and say “hey! I got  a visa no problem!” They just go visit the US. Who comes onto VJ to post? Those that don’t get a visa! You are using an inherently biased sample to draw your inference.

Edited June 25, 2019 by SusieQQQ