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2022-05-14 18:30:17 2. My suggestion is to if you didn't understand the question please ask officer can you please repeat once again.
3. Confidence, Eye contact, Loud and clear voice is key.

4. Finally, take as many mocks from your friends, family members( even in telegram also various groups are present to take mocks follow their suggestions and try to improve your answers). Ask them what is my mistakes. And try to practice in front of mirror so that it will lose your fear and get confidence.
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5. In Chennai, many girls in the morning have got approved. While in case of boys I saw mixed ones (both accept and rejections). During my interview there is no F1 candidate infront of me. All are H1 and h4 visa candidate but all of them got approved this gave me much confidence.

Finally, my answer little long may be boring for you. But don't demotivate or loose confidence during interview and this group very helpful to me. Keep rocking and All the best for your interview.
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2022-05-14 18:30:16 Consulate : Chennai
Intake :Fall
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Texas A &M University - Commerce
Biometrics :- 12th May(Chennai)
VI date :- 13th May (Chennai)
Slot time :- 9:30 AM
IN time :- 8 : 40 AM
Out time :- 9:45 Am
White Chubby woman in her 30s
Counter no :- 22( not remember exactly)
Course :-Master’s in Computer and Information Sciences
Status :- Approved
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VO : Good morning.
Me: Good morning officer. How are you doing today?

VO: I am fine. What about you?
Me: I am Good officer. Passed documents (even before she ask)

VO: (Checked i20, sevis receipt, passport and something in system)
Tell me something about the University?( Her voice is very slow and fast so even first question itself I asked to repeat again and she showed college name in I-20 and then I got she is asking about University and gave my answer)
Me: TAMUC is a Public Reasearch University, and ranked among top 300 universities in US and R2 raked Research University. Moreover the university offering courses like Software Engineering along with business analytics which happens to be my area of interest and relevant to work experience. And there is a one professor called Prof Derek Harter who is doing research in software engineering field from past 18 years so I would like to study under his guidance.

VO: When did you passed out?(even I asked her to repeat 2 times because her voice is not clear and she give some angry look and I thought my visa will reject)
Me: I have completed my Bachelor's in 2020(may be my voice is not audible to her so she asked to speak closure to mic)

Vo: What are you doing since then?
Me : I am currently working as Assistant System Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services.

VO: oh okay. Again she asked are you working in Tata?
Me: Yes, officer ( From here on words I got confidence and speak very loud and maintain eye contact)

VO: What is your roles and responsibilities?
Me: told about my roles and responsibilities in the Organisation.

VO: Why masters?
Me: Actually officer, with 17 months of experience in IT industry I have gained lot of knowledge but the knowledge in software engineering domain is not efficient so this masters will helpful to enhance my skills in that particular domain and upgrade my skills and Move to better position in career.

VO: What is your Bachelors percentage?
Me: 9.43 cgpa out of 10 scale

VO: Have you written GRE?
Me: Yes, officer.

VO: What is your score?
Me: 324
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VO: How many Universities you have applied for?
Me: I have applied for 3 more universities including TAMUC and got admits from all universities.

Me: (Volunterly asked )can I name them?

VO: Yes
Me: They are Cleveland, Wichita, and Kent State University.

Vo : How are you planning to fund your education?
Me : my parents are sponsoring me with their savings of xxx lakhs which will be enough for my two years of education and living expenses. Moreover we have an assets with xxx. If anything necessary my parents are ready to utilise for my education.

VO: what are there occupation?
Me: My Father is a cotton trader ( she stopped me and asked what is it and i repeated again). He will collect cotton from local farmers and firms and export to various industries across country. In addition to that we have 14 acres of agriculture land. Moreover we also get income from rental house and diary farm that will be maintained by my mother. And there annual income is xxx.( During funding she maintain sharp eye contact to me.)

Vo : Okay...(typing something)
Me: I lost hope because she placed the passport in the documents.

VO: I am approving your visa. Have a nice stay.
Me: Thank you office. Have a nice day.


Note:
1. To be honest I have fumbled a lot in first two questions and having no confidence, after that I have maintained sharp eye contact and speak very loud and confidently. ( But lucks favours me by the end of the day because everyone may not get a second chance)
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2022-05-14 18:15:15 Ofc Location: Delhi (10-05-2022) slot was at 5:15pm but went at 4:00 pm
Vi Location: Delhi (13-05-2022)
Appointment time : 11:20 am
In time : around 9:45 am
Out time : 11:10 am
University : University of Michigan Dearborn
Course : computer and Information sciences
Counter no : 11
Status : Approved
American lady around 25-30
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VO: waited for me to come forward
Me: Good morning officer, how are you?

VO: Iam good, pass me your passport and i20
Me: here there are officer

VO: why are you going to this university?
Me: officer, I want to pursue my career as sap security consultant and for that I need deep knowledge and hands-on experience in the domains of computer networks and security as well as software engineering and university of Michigan is offering me exactly these courses under CIS curriculum.

VO: how many universities have you applied?
Me: I applied to 6 universities in total. Do you want me to name them?

VO: what's your second priority university?
Me: University of Maryland,Baltimore County

VO: whats the differences between your intended university and your second priority university that made you chose the current university for this course?( Couldn't hear properly and asked her to repeat the question, she repeated and I wasn't prepared for this question).
Me: university of Maryland is not providing software engineering specialisation as a part of course curriculum but university of Michigan is offering me software engineering as a part of CIS course curriculum hence I chose university of Michigan over university of Maryland ( Edo sodi cheppa then she nodded her head)

VO: how are you going to fund?
Me: my father is my primary sponsor with his savings of 50 lakhs and he is having immovable assets worth 3 crores and I also applied to education loan at SBI just to be a back up incase of worst case scenario

VO : what does your father do?
Me: My father is an agricultural landlord and receives agricultural income, he has 13.58 acres of land under his name(VO looked straight into my eyes and I continued)he is also into transportation business and he owns two tractors and two tippers.

VO: what's his annual income?
Me : 10.31 lakhs officer

VO: Any loan?
Me: officer I have applied the loan at SBI and it's in the last of stage of processing for getting sanctioned since I came a bit early for vi(here she laughed a lil bit) I requested bank to give loan processing letter and they gave it. Shall I show it?

VO: no need

Typing for few seconds

VO: Place your right hand four fingers on scanner
Me: placed

VO: held my passport in her hand, gave me my i20 back and told "your visa has been approved"

Told thank you officer and walked out quickly

While standing in queue vo observed me three times and I have been standing with proper posture and was looking at her only, as everyone has been saying, wearing confidence and speaking louder is the key.I saw vo's approving for ppl who fumbled a bit for two-three times just make sure you don't fumble for much time and gather yourself together and get on track right after it. There are no shades for ppl to wait outside and Delhi heat is too much, so plan accordingly. they are not checking the slot timings strictly , my slot was at 11:20 and I went when 11:00 slot ppl were called. Maintain eye contact during the vi and they are purposely looking into your eyes for funding question so answer them perfectly without fumbling by looking into their eyes.

Jai Balayya
All the best to everyone who is going to attend VI
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2022-05-14 18:00:21 Delhi consulate - counter 19, VO white, brown hair, glasses.
13th march 2022
NIU
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In time - 10.40 am
Out time - 2.30 pm
2nd attempt
1st attempt in spring 2022 hyd rejected UTD

Vo- helo sir, please give me your passport n i20
Me- (gave documents) good morning officer, hope you are having a great stay in india.
Vo- no reply...why this university?
Me- NIU is one the top piblic universities in US. They are providing a specialization, I'm intrested in. And I'm looking forward to work with a professor name xxx who had done vast research in the field of networks.
Vo- which specialization you are choosing?
Me- Network Analytics
VO- could name some if the couses you are going to study?
Me- networks and telecommunications, system analysis and design, internet and web Computing, database management.
VO- who are going to fund you?
Me- my parents are funding me. They are having an annual income of xx lakhs.
VO- what they do?
Me- my parents owns a wholesale general store.
VO- sorry what is it?
Me- wholesale general store sir. We supply all type of groceries to retail stores. We have more than 500 connections.
VO- Is that generates an income of 14 lakhs? How many stores you have?
Me- yes officer. There are only 3 or 4 such stores in all over our district.
(Checks system types alot)
VO- how many years of experience you are having?
Me- 1 year officer.
VO- but it seems to be like you didn't mention anything about it in your last attempt.
Me- At that time I'm only having 2 or 3 months experience, so I didn't include it.
VO- how could I believe that?
Me- I have my recently payslips with me officer. (And showed him them)
VO- what type of company is it? Is it gaming one?  What you do there?
Me- Yes officer, I working as a Game developer in xxx. I design n develop web applications, intergrate backend with our RGS. Maintain Databases.
VO - (looking into my payslips, actually my payslips has many mistakes, I didn't verify them before bringing to consulate) wait a minute why the name of company is different at logo and caption. Is this company really exists?
Me - yes officer,  (I said my company address).
(He is looking into my eyes to check whether I'm lying)
VO- Let me check this papers once, please wait back I will call you. (went back and gave papers to someone to verify)
Me- (Sat there, everyone completed their interviews, VOs are done for the day and closing their curtains, after 1hr they called to seperate cabin).
(An Indian lady is inside and started questioning me from the starting, about my history in the company, while I'm explaining another VO came and started asking where do I get this payslips).
Me - from accounts department in my company.
VO- sir, I'm asking you for the last time. Where did you get them.
Me - repeated my answer.
VO- Then where did you print out?
Me- nearby store to my house.
VO- Tell me which consultancy you are from?
Me- No officer, I didn't join in any consultancy.
VO- Then who said you not to mention about your experience at 1st time, and now why you mentioned.
Me- I've my elder brother, who is currently doing his masters in CSU. He told me to ignore that experience 1st time. This time, I thought I had enough experience and mentioned it.
(Like this they asked so many questions to me, I answered everything. They gone through our company website. Asked my CEO, CTO, COO names. Sometimes they are asking more precisely even dates, then I said I don't remember. After a long talk they took my CEO number, called infront of me and verified. Then they said me to sit outside) Now again another new VO came and gave my i20 n payslips back. Said you are visa has been approved.

please fill your DS160 on your own n verify them 2 or 3 times before submitting, n also carry all the proofs, even your office ID card
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2022-05-14 17:45:10 My Visa Experiance:
Location:Delhi
attempt:2nd
OFC:12/may/2022
VI:13/may/2022
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1st attempt at Mumbai:Rejected
me:Good morning Officer
vo:no reply pass me ur documents.
me:here it is officer
vo:why this university?(repted 2 times unable to here)
me:told
vo:what after MS?
me:fumbled here
vo:funding?
me:told
vo:sorry u can apply next time.

2nd attemp at delhi :Approved
me:good morning officer
vo:very good morning ,how is your day?
me:good sir thank you for asking.
vo:So,AUM ?
me:yes officer.
vo:apart from this how many admits?
me : total 4 admits out of 5 those are AUM,Bridgeport University,cleveland state university,Huston
clearlake,Lewies university.
vo :wen u completed ur bachelors?
me:2019 in bangalore.
vo:wt after bachelors.
me :told one word but interrupted.
vo :funding?
me :my parents with there savings of 30L.
vo : ho will u manage only with this amount.
me : my parents and my both elder brothers are working.
vo :wt are they?
me : my father is PSI and earns 15lakhs.
vo :wt is PSI?
me :told
vo :okay ,your visa is APPROVED collect in 5 days.

there were many approvals today,in a queue of 8 only 1 got rejected.be confident dont fumbble.
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2022-05-14 17:30:15 I have completed my vi yesterday in Delhi.I want to share my experience.
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Counter num:21
American bald guy Nd he is fat
Vac:12th 10:15
Vi:13th 10:30
In time:9
Out time: 9:50
Course: ms in cs
Uni:wright state uni
Vi: pass me passport and i20
Me:yes sir
Vi:how many uni did you applied?
Me:I have applied for 4 uni
Vi:how many admits?
Me:officer I got 3 admits
Vi: name them
Me:Gannon,long island and wright state
Vi:tell me abt funding
Me: told savings, loan, scholarship.
Vi: scan left hand 4 fingers
Me: ok officer(its been 5 to 6 sec so asked him is it done officer) he said no its not and after sometime he said yes its done.
Vi: your visa is approved, you will get in 5 days.
Me: thank you officer.

Guys be confident and maintain eye contact.their voice is too low if u don't understand the question just ask them to repeat it. They will do. In front of me one person was F1 and remaining are h1b . and when I was inside they are only approvals I didn't see even one rejection in that time.

Thank you for this group . it helped me a lot.
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2022-05-14 17:15:09 1ST ATTEMPT
VAC:- MUMBAI ON 1ND MAY
VI:- DELHI ON 12TH MAY
Fall Intake

Wichita State University
American lady she is in good mood
And rejected 2 people infront of me.
Slot :- 11:00 Am
In time :- 9:00 am
Out time:-10:00
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Me:-Good morning officer
VI:- Good morning show  me your passport and I-20

VI:- Why Wichita?
Me: firstly, Wichita State University is offering a student friendly course curriculum which is inline with my area of interest that is algorithms. Along with this Wichita is also offering advanced technologies like ML and AI as electives.

VI:- Any Specialization?
Me:-I am going to take data science as my specialization.

VI:- How masters help you?
Me:- Said

VI:- When did you passed out?
Me:-2020

Vi:- What you are doing since then?
Me:- I don't have any experience but I've done course certification.After completing my bachelor's I couldn't able to apply for Fall 2021 intake due to pandemic situation and I have sent applications to various universities for spring 2022 intake unluckyly I didn't get visa slot for spring 2022. so, I deferred my application to fall 2022 and I have completed course and certification in some languages which adds good weightage for masters.

VI:-What about funding?
Me:- I have a savings of 24 lakhs and secure loan of 27 lakhs

Vi:-What does your father do?
Me:- Told.

That's It
Finally I am approving your visa.

I thank Each and everyone who sharing their experience in this group and helping others to perform well.

Prepare well and go but  other counters are just asking about funding and college. I saw one guy was louder and taking much time to speak saying aaa aaa aaaa between the answer and got REJECTED. So, please say the answer clearly and slowly. Don't take break  and try to avoid aaa aaaa aaaa
between your answer.

Aa devuni anugraham lekunda visa kottadam kastam Abba. Visited CHILKUR BALAJI TEMPLE few days ago. Malli pothuna iga visa ochindi ga .E Delhi la mudurgalu untar  jagratha....kani manam atla kadu Jaan istham bhaya andukante Hyderabadi.
Humid matram chaala undi carry and water bottles.
There is luggage counters but it's not free they are charging 150rs for both mobile and bags.
Book cabs don't go in auto they will left you in the middle.
After entering into to Visa consular office don't greet him like a visa officer at the he is not going to interview you he scans your passport only .
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2022-05-14 17:01:05 F1 visa interview Experience :
OFC: May 11 th
Vi : May 12 th
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Consulate : Delhi
University: Texas tech University
Status : Approved
Slot time : 10:20 Am
In time : 9:30 Am
Out time : 9:50 Am
VO: Indian gentlemen around 30 yrs old
Counter :13
VI : completed within 50 's .
Me : Good morning sir, Hope your doing good?
VO: Good morning, How r u?
Me: I am good.
VO : place your right hand four finger's on scanner.
Me: Done.
VO: pass me your i-20 and Passport.
Me: placed in tray.
VO : which program?
Me: Master's in Biological and physical sciences, specialize in Nutritional science in Texas tech University which is located in Lubbock.
VO : why this university?
Me: It is R1 research public university and Dr. Allison Childress doing research on women's health and weight management which is my line of interest and I want to be a part of her research Because this research exposure really helps me when I am back to India to settle as a Nutritionist in Top most hospitals in India.
VO : who is funding?
Me: My father
VO : what is he?
Me: He is into business he owns a rice mills and annual income is 14 lakhs PA.
VO: Ok dear, I am approving your visa.
Me: Tq so much sir, Have a nice day.

Tip : Be confident, Little bit smile on your face
Don't memorize your answer's go with the flow.
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2022-05-14 16:45:11 Hi , this is my VI experience:
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LEWIS UNIVERSITY, ROMEOVILLE, ILLINOIS
COMPUTER SCIENCE
12 May 2022
Delhi
Slot 1110am
In 945am
Out 1030am
Counter 18, Blonde American Lady in her 30s,
VO was active and in a good mood, was asking questions about different topics apart from general list of question , she was giving ample time for mistakes and keenly listening to answers.

3 people were accepted ahead of me and 1 rejected because he was fumbling a lot, VO gave him ample time to recover but he was unprepared so she rejected him.

VO come forward
ME good morning maam, i hope you're having a pleasant day

VO why are you going to america
ME to pursue my masters in computer science at LEWIS UNIVERSITY

VO Why did you choose Lewis university
ME officer i opted to pursue my masters in computer science at lewis because they are offering the exact course specialisation that i want to pursue my career in , the specialisation in web development using javascript and database management systems was unique combination that i only got at Lewis, hence I'm going ahead with this university and course.

VO did you write gre
ME officer my university waived off gre for me, but i wrote the duolingo english test and scored 130 out of a possible 160

VO When did you complete your bachelors
ME i completed my bachelors in nov 2021

VO what did you do after your bachelors
I completed a course on front end development using javascript on freecodecamp.com, and prepared for my f1 visa process

VO what was your major project in bachelors
ME my major project was named neural attentive item similarity model for recommendation, it was a model which could recommend similar items to the user depending on their search history and search habits
 
VO what was the most complicated part of your major project
ME officer we built our model using javascript and kept the front end very simple and smooth whereas the backend was very complicated because the model had to process the search habits and history of the user to give out an output which related to the historical input of the user

VO who is going to sponsor you
ME officer my father is going to sponsor me with his savings of upto 40 lakh rs and he also has immovable assets worth upto 8 crore rs , his annual income is around 25 lakhs

VO what does he do
ME officer my father owns a chain of retail pharmacy stores

VO do you have any siblings
ME yes officer, i have an elder brother and an elder sister

VO what do they do
ME my brother is involved in our family business and my sister is studying

VO im approving your visa , have a great day
ME thank you officer, i hope you have a delightful day ahead

Some points:
Keep your answers simple and precise
be ready for variety of questions
Always justify with confidence and unwavering voice

Only indian VO at counter 19 was asking for some documents
Other than that everybody was busy approving
Eligible candidates,
It looked like they want a good enough reason to approve you and when they get it its done

Thank you for all group members who have contributed to my success.
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2022-05-14 16:30:17 Appointment date- 13th MAY, 2022
Status: APPROVED
Location : Mumbai
Appointment Time: 10:20 AM
In time: 9:35am
Out time: 10:15am
University: Njit
Course: MS in engineering management
Counter No. 30
American lady
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VO: Good Morning
Me: Good morning officer
VO: Pass me your passport
Me: passed

VO: ohh njit ... For which course??

Me: Engineering Industrial management

VO: what is your bachelor's in??

Me- Mechanical engineering..mam

VO: what after masters??

Me: told that i going join my uncle's business..and what is manufacture...

VO: ohh nice ... Who is sponsoring you??
Me: my parents are sponsoring me with their savings .. ( interrupted)

VO: what is your father do??

Me: told ...

VO: what is your mother do??
Me: told

VO: any loans
Me: yes I have secure loan of 40 lakh rupees from HDFC credila

Vo: place Your Right Hand 4 Fingers

Golden Words

I am Going To Approve Your Visa


Vo: have a nice day..

Me: Thank You Officer, Have a great day too ..


Look straight Into VO's eye's ,Don't Fumble While answering. Be confident
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In Mumbai famous Chinese guy is there taking interviews for 2 to 3 minutes and he had high rejection rate ... But other counters are not like that it is all on your confidence and answers
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