Rejection due to 214b. Need reapply advise!!!

[Tablehair 0]

I just got visa rejection due to 214b. 
Im from Vietnam,was married but divorced already, single mother, my son is 5 years old, i was born in countryside, i have a house in countryside, now im living in city.

 

In Ds160 my agency filled that :
- im single
- travel alone
- address of hotel in California
- marketing staff in a trading & investment & joinstock company

- salary: didnt mention
- also mention that im following a 6 months programming course at a trainning system
- Travel history: indonesia, phillipine, thailand, cambodia
- at the end my agency mentioned that who assist me to fill this form - agency

 

And the interviewer were:

Question 1: Why do you want to go to the US?
Me: i want to travel and i want to attend a 4 hours coding workshop in harvard university in Nov 8th in boston then travel to California and new york.
(I was supposed to say i want to travel to Cali visit Universal,… and New York then visit lecture (not workshop) in Boston but i was nervous and 🥹)

 

Question 2: Do you have invitation letter?
Me: i dont have invitation letter but ticket is it ok? She said sure and saw ticket and she said okay.

 

Question 3: Do you have family in the US?
Me: no i dont 

 

Question 4: Do you have family here?
Me: (i was confused by the question and i asked her) Family? I have my dad, brother sister and my son

 

Question 5: Have you ever been to anywhere close to the US? 
Me: never

Visa is not approved.

 

I want to fill my form on my own next time and not need agency.
Can you help me to see what i need to improve on my form next time.
When can i reapply again? As the date of the lecture in university over, so i shouldnt mention it next time on the form ? Just going to say im going to travel only? 

Appreciate all your responds 🤗

[Boiler 45,516]

I assume you have read the DS160, it just asks factual questions for which there is only a correct answer.

 

Going to Harvard from Vietnam for a 4 hour course may have confused them.

[Boiler 45,516]

Ohh and filling in the DS160 is more high school level not Harvard 

[JeanneAdil 6,505]

while u were in interview,  i am sure CO was tryping 

and it was easy for that person to look up info on Harvard site and see that Harvard Kennedy School was offiering a lunch hosted by Anne Boustead on  cyber encryption on the 8th of November as follows

Lunch Seminar featuring Anne Boustead, Assistant Professor at the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. In a talk entitled, "Measuring Encryption," Boustead will explore some of the legal and policy issues that could be informed by additional data on encounters with encrypted devices in the criminal justice system.

 

But Harvard U only has a course from the 7th to the 18th full days 

 

U were not able to explain your intent to attend with sufficient proof as this lecture is 1st come 1st served

[Tablehair 0]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

I assume you have read the DS160, it just asks factual questions for which there is only a correct answer.

 

Going to Harvard from Vietnam for a 4 hour course may have confused them.

Yeah i think that answer confused them, i was planning to go with my friend to Cali and New York ( she passed visa before ) but the agency filled my form that i traveled alone so i had to go along with that. 
Also i didnt mention to them i have a house.
Do you think is it okay for me to only mention travel next time ? And when do you think i can reapply?
 

[Boiler 45,516]

1 minute ago, Tablehair said:

Yeah i think that answer confused them, i was planning to go with my friend to Cali and New York ( she passed visa before ) but the agency filled my form that i traveled alone so i had to go along with that. 
Also i didnt mention to them i have a house.
Do you think is it okay for me to only mention travel next time ? And when do you think i can reapply?
 

They do not ask if you have a house.

 

Whatever the reason you want to travel you should mention

 

You can apply as soon and as frequently as you want. 

[Rocio0010 5,579]

1 hour ago, Tablehair said:

but the agency filled my form that i traveled alone so i had to go along with that. 

No, you did not have to "go along" with that. 

They have you read and sign the form. That was your chance to correct it. So no, you didn't have to go along with whatever the form said. All you had to do is to either tell the agency to correct it, or get rid of your agency and fill it yourself with nothing but the truth.

[EM_Vandaveer 2,408]

The more often you re-apply, the more desperate you'll seem, the more unlikely it'll be to get an approval.

[Cathi 5,748]

The only answers to give are truthful answers.

You cannot use a visitor visa to attend any type of "school". A visitor visa is for visiting.

[Tablehair 0]

3 hours ago, Rocio0010 said:

No, you did not have to "go along" with that. 

They have you read and sign the form. That was your chance to correct it. So no, you didn't have to go along with whatever the form said. All you had to do is to either tell the agency to correct it, or get rid of your agency and fill it yourself with nothing but the truth.

They didnt show me, they filled and sent it already and didnt even show me until 2 days before interview.

[Boiler 45,516]

You had to sign it under oath etc.

[Tablehair 0]

4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

You had to sign it under oath etc.

Is that a joke? 😅

[Tablehair 0]

1 hour ago, Cathi said:

The only answers to give are truthful answers.

You cannot use a visitor visa to attend any type of "school". A visitor visa is for visiting.

On the reapply form should i just mention travel around right?

[Boiler 45,516]

Just now, Tablehair said:

Is that a joke? 😅

Huh?

[PaulaCJohnny 713]

2 hours ago, Tablehair said:

Is that a joke? 😅

The Joke here is if you sign a document that is really important, that could contain a lot of misleading information and you don’t care.

 

Your story does not look real at all. Going from Vietnam to California and then NY? Do you have any idea how far is it??
For a 4 hours code class that you are not even enrolled.

 

As others told here your story looks vage and have a lot of inconsistency and we are not even looking what was in the Form, I cannot image the Officer reaction reading all this.

 

If you apply right now not even knowing what was in the form or trying to use a different excuse you will look super desperate.

 

What’s your really motive to come?

How old are you?

Are you paying for your on trip?
Do you have more tan enough funds for it?

Why is your kid not traveling with you?

 

Does not matter if you try today or in a month, if your situation is the same (house or not) the outcome will not change.

 

Maybe for you it’s a nice and consistent story but immigrants seem everyday young simple moms/dads coming to try “luck” or even worse, being use in a lot of horrible trafficking situations.

 

All this is not trying to be rude or anything like that but if you have a legitimate reason to come first read your past DS-160 to make sure that all the information that is 100% correct and read the signature part that says:

”

E-Signature

I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.“

If you don’t understand what this means and signed any paper without reading you can be in trouble.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2023 by PaulaCJohnny