B2 visa given from Mumbai consulate with validity of 3 months only.

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

3 hours ago, African Zealot said:

Sorry your statement is inaccurate (if that makes you feel better than saying it was false). So all the countless folks I know who got short duration visas first time around had flags? 😁

 

And just so you know, South Africans and particularly Caucasian South Africans  until maybe ten fifteen twenty years ago routinely got treated differently from other sub Saharan African countries for obvious reasons. Anyway I am not going to bother, you’re entitled to your opinion. I still maintain it’s false/inaccurate.

High fraud countries are usually flagged. This includes a lot of third world countries where people produce fake documents and fake reasons to get to US. Western European countrise have same standard of living as US and are considered less fraud than third world countries in Africa/ Asia.  This does not mean everyone from high fraud countries are given a short visa but yeah folks from certain countries under certain reasons of travel are flagged.  

 

Unless you are working at the consulate ,you have no idea that you are flagged or not. 

 

 

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7 hours ago, aindian310 said:

Okay, makes sense. I guess the only dilemma we have right now is that rather he should just re-apply for renewal in June and try his luck if he gets approved or not, or 2nd option is to come to US in June and see what CBP gives him in terms of time on I-94. Hopefully CBP doesn't give him only 5 days (till time his visa expires).

 

Thank you for your response. 

 

Visa validity only matters when you want to enter US.  Duration of stay in the US is determined by CBP at port of entry.  most of the time they do consider the validity of visa 

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5 hours ago, igoyougoduke said:

High fraud countries are usually flagged. This includes a lot of third world countries where people produce fake documents and fake reasons to get to US. Western European countrise have same standard of living as US and are considered less fraud than third world countries in Africa/ Asia.  This does not mean everyone from high fraud countries are given a short visa but yeah folks from certain countries under certain reasons of travel are flagged.  

 

Unless you are working at the consulate ,you have no idea that you are flagged or not. 

 

 

This is absolutely correct - you'd have no way of knowing if you were flagged or not.

 

I'm English - and the first time I applied for a US visa (because I wanted to visit for 6 months, ie, longer than the VWP would allow), I was granted a 10 year, multi entry visa. Now, clearly there's a reason why I was granted that and other people (and all the people they know!) were only granted 3 month visas. Your country of origin does make a difference unfortunately (and the prior actions of other visitors from those countries) and yes, it absolutely can be a 'red flag' or whether term you want to use.

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15 hours ago, African Zealot said:

That statement is false. I know that from personal experience and data points from countless friends. My first B visa was for two months (?). There was no red flag with my application or profile. I was simply coming to represent my country at a tournament in Washington DC as a senior in college.

 

Similarly virtually all my friends who were first time applicants got about three months. We didn’t have any flags, we were simply young men/boys from developing economies with no travel experience to affluent western countries. I can even venture that the vast majority of first time applicants from Ghana (and most African countries) get three month visas. Doesn’t mean any flag.

 

And yes, I know what the Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual says 😊.

 

 

Have to laugh.. you say no flags but then state the biggest flags possible.. young men from developing countries with no travel experience. They are the flags and why you only got 3 months.