Hello my dear friends! I hope that you have got your admissions and thus came
to this page. Congrats on your admission. This is the crucial part in your
travel to USA. This has to be dealt with a lot of care and nothing should go wrong
in this process. I sincerely suggest that you start your preparation for your
VISA from the date you get your I20 (in case you get it very early) or else
atleast before three months of your travel. I repeat, this is very important,
deal cautiously.
Well here we go step wise.
® Accumulating money.
® Accumulating proofs.
® Dwelling about what you have with you
to show.
® Getting a bank loan.
® Looking for sponsors.
® Making the CA statement
® Affidavits
® Preparing yourself
for the interview.
ACCUMULATING MONEY: hello
everybody. The tough job’s heading you. Well here let’s calculate how much
money you should have. Actually when you get your I-20, please find the amount
of expenses they mention. These include your fee, living etc expenses. So you
should show an amount of (I20 sum) * (2, because the mentioned is for one year)
* (Rs.50). This is a must. And the major point we need to note here is many
kids drop in exactly the same amount required and thus invite trouble. So you
kindly deposit in your bank an amount which is just nearly less or greater than
the one required.
Let me ask you a question. If you suddenly, one day, walk in to
your house with Rs.50000/- how would your parents react to that. Certainly
first you will get a slap and then they will ask the source of that amount. The
same thing happens when you drop a few lakhs (more than 3 lakhs) on a single
day in your bank account and show that to your consular officer. But you will
find a small change, you will not get a slap instead you will get a stamp in
your passport, yeah that’s called reject. So kindly don’t drop more amounts on
a single day.
What about your bank account? Yes this is again a big question.
Kindly, don’t start an account in any bank. The bank should be a nationalized
bank and with good reputation. Some examples are SBI, SBH, UNION BANK, ICICI,
HDFC, HSBC
etc. start an account atleast six months before you goto the consulate. You
need not put your money from six months. But I suggest you kindly make some
transactions every month (make atleast 8). Now, just before a
month, you goto the consulate, start dropping your amounts in the bank.
Fine this is it with depositing amounts in the bank. But what if somebody
cannot drop in amounts as I said because of some reasons?
For them! Okay as you cannot drop in your money in installment
wise, you need to make the consular officer work upon some other credits of
yours rather than this.
Fine banking is over.
After you complete your depositing etc take a bank statement from your banker.
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ACCUMULATING
PROOFS: This is certainly the most important topic in your VISA preparation. You need to support or show proof
that the amounts you have dropped in your bank account are genuine i.e. they
are yours. For this people generally have their own ways. I suggest the
following.
® Show one document that you have recently
sold off a house.
® Show one document that somebody had
taken a debt from you and then they repaid now.
® Show some FDs (Xerox) and tell them
that these amounts were converted into the sums you have dropped.
These are the best I
know. Well this is the crucial part concerned when he asks for your passbook.
The proofs you show should very much buttress the fact that these amounts are
yours.
DWELLING INTO WHAT YOU
HAVE: you go and ask your parents what all they got in assets or cash. Try to
remember what all properties you have. Don’t neglect even the smallest of
amounts. These include …..
® Fixed deposits. (attested FD
receipts)
® Lands & houses. (Valid estimation
reports including plan of approval)
® Automobiles. (C Book)
® Gold & silver. (evaluation report
from authorized gold shops)
® Shares. (certificates)
® Chits. (certificates)
® Partnerships & ownerships.
(certificates)
® Agrarian lands. (evaluation reports)
® Salaries. (salary certificate &
IT statement) --- (of all the members in the family you would like to show)
These are most of them.
If there are some more forms of assets kindly include them also. Make a
statement of each and everything. I mean make a summary. Take authorized
certificates for everything as mentioned in the braces for each assets type.
GETTING A BANK LOAN: “I
have 50 lakhs with me I don’t need a bank loan.” Okay very much fine. What if
you are robbed or you lost all your money to someone/thing? This is the
question you may be asked by the consular officer. How would you answer it? And
no entrepreneur would like to spend the sum in hand and would like to find a
loan. As we have to show an incoming source of funds you kindly take a bank
loan, atleast for a small amount. The procedure is …… goto any good bank, which
your friends tell is giving educational loans very frequently, and apply for a
loan. If the banker troubles you anyway … show the following to the banker.
These are RBI directives. Please do use them. The most
important thing is …… YOU SHOULD GET A LOAN SANCTION LETTER NOT A LOAN ELIGIBILTY
LETTER OR SOMEOTHER SHIT. This is very important.
Fine now you also have a
Loan sanction statement. Nice!
LOOKING
FOR SPONSORS: A sponsor means the one who funds you all along your study. They can be your parents and only
utmost relatives. This is very important. You cannot show some friend of yours
in
MAKING THE CA STATEMENT: well for a certified approval of all what you have is
to get a CA certification. Well first, find a CA and then ask him what all
documents you have to get to certify all your
assets. Do not forget even a small asset of yours.
AFFIDAVITS: you need to produce a few
affidavits. These things need to be done on Stamp paper(Rs.10/- papers are
enough). I’ll
give the format. Chiefly there are three.
PREPARING YOURSELF – GOING TO
CONSULATE – GETTING THE VISA
Well shall we start?
How to start?
Select a date to attend the
consulate. Goto www.ttsvisas.com.
Find out the rules for appointment and then book one on the date you wished. I do
not think you will find much problem if you are allowed to go for a drop-box
facility.
Sentiments:
® do not book on Monday or Tuesday
® do not book a slot after
Come on now we shall enlist all the
things you need to carry to the consulate.
IMPORTANT: arrange all these things
in the same order, because you need to put them in the file in the same order.
Then you will find it easy. Goto www.madras.sphynx.com
to get information about things to carry and also to
fill all the forms required. Kindly note that you need to
find out the instructions in the website to fill out forms. If you are not from Chennai region then kindly click on the
regional links provided in the same site.
Well the major thing you have to do
is, you need to study all the documents you are going
to show to that consular officer. Because, if you were asked
for some info then you should not stammer. Fine lets
prepare for the interview.
TIPS FOR THE INTERVIEW
Well
kindly make an early entry to the consulate. They would ask you to come only
before 15 minutes. But be cautious. At-times they
allow people before time only.
® So go early
® Don’t take any big bags
® Carry all the docs in a single
harmonium file in a plastic bag
® Don’t carry any key chains or staplers or cell
phones or floppies or any digital equipment
® don’t dress heavily (try to be
religious - no suit/blazers etc; )
® carry a good working pen
® on the back side of the drafts write
your passport number, full name, address
® Tear off the additional score report
sheet of your TOEFL score report. Then it would just become small enough.
Staple it to the GRE score report. Therefore, when you see it both the scores
should be visible.
Now after you bid a comfortable bye
to the ones who came with you, you need to stand in a line. Pass through the
security check. You will need to collect a file afterwards. Sit down in the
line, take out all the documents from your file, and put them in the place
provided in the file you pick. Everything is written, so do not mess up. After
you put all of them just keep quite and pray or slightly sing some songs
(kidding). Now as you proceed in the line at a certain point the TTS fee of
Rs.300/- will be collected. Put the receipt in your pocket. Then you will
proceed to the formal counters. Here just formally they check your docs and
take the first draft (processing fee Rs.4900/-). From here, you will be asked
to proceed to the main lobby, where your American friends will be waiting to
play with you.
THE RAGGING STUFF
Fine
from here read very carefully. I have guided many persons here and all of those
got their VISAs. Remember that.
Get into the lobby. You will find
some chairs in the lobby before counters numbered
Suddenly
if you find some good person has jumped in into a counter of the second line or
you find that formerly you made a wrong choice, don’t
hesitate to change your line. This can be accomplished
in many ways.
See these things may be
filthy for a moment, but you remember that getting the VISA is the prime issue.
Well now, you are in the line. You
are about to face the officer. Feel light. One of the officer’s will call you.
Do not run, have a serene gait. As soon as you approach the counter, greet that
fellow with a nice smile and good morning or what so ever. Do not say that in a haste, because if he speaks in between you may not hear
it. WELL REMEMBER ONETHING. YOU WILL HAVE A SMALL MIC TO SPEAK. HE CAN HEAR
YOU. BUT HE WILL NOT SPEAK FROM A MIC. THUS THE VOICE WOULD BE PRETTY LOW. SO KINDLY CONCENTRATE.
I AM NOT JOKING. HEAR TO HIM/HER CAREFULLY. DON'T SPEAK TOO FAST.
Answer
everything carefully without any stammering. Do not hesitate to lie. If asked,
tell him that except some seniors, you do not know anybody in
Well
if the officer says that you are rejected and cannot give you a VISA, then
remember these words.
® It is only after a year that you can
see him again.
® You may not be able to make it to the
next year.
So do not hesitate to argue with him. Tell him that you are genuine and demand him that you want only an F1 visa and would certainly return. Do not just leave the counter. The guard may object you; just give a sharp look to that stupid. He is not even an average person (unfit as a guard).
HOPE YOU DO NOT NEED THIS AND WILL
FLY TO
UNITED STATES ….
Well I am giving a ZIP file. kindly download. That contains many documents which I have obtained while I went for my VISA.
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