US VISA EXPERIENCE: Started my day with a very relaxed mind. I was ready and my VAC appointment was done the previous day.
“Keep a very calm mind before your interview !”.
I rehearsed and practiced all my possible expected interview questions and answers. This gave me a lot of confidence.
DO NOT BE AFFECTED BY REJECTIONS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES.
Me: Hi, Good morning!!! (Smiling)
Consular Officer: Good morning!! Can I have your passport, please?
Me: Here you go. Gave him my passport.
After handing it over she cross-checked it for some time, with something on her screen.
Consular Officer: How many times you have been outside India?
Me: I have never been outside India.
Consular Officer: What’s the purpose of your visit?
Me: I have been invited by Google to attend a conference.
Consular Officer: Explain what kind of conference is it?
Me: It’s for the individuals who actively contribute to the Google community forum.
Consular Officer: Why have they invited you?
Me: Because I am an active contributor on Google community forum.
Consular Officer: How are you going to pay the expenses in the US?
Me: Everything will be paid by Google, it’s already written in the letter.
Consular Officer: What do you do?
Me: Currently I don’t work, I met with an accident, it broke my ankle and had to undergo two surgeries.
Consular Officer: But how?
Me: I was trying to save a puppy.
Consular Officer: What is the profession of your father?
Me: We have a family business, we make raw materials used in pain killers.
Consular Officer: And where were you previously working?
Me: I was in activateandpresent.com as a senior executive in digital advertising.
Consular Officer: So where do you live and with whom?
Me: I live with my parents in a joint family in Ahmedabad.
Consular Officer: Nice. Your visa will be ready in 2 to 3 days. Take care.
Me: Thank you.
Me: Hello, Good Morning
Interviewer: Hello, how are you doing?
Me: Fine Ma’am
Interviewer: What do you do?
Me: I’m a Vastu Shastra Specialist.
Interviewer: What is Vastu Shastra?
Me: Vastu Shastra is like doing the forecasting by analyzing different scenarios before building a home.
Interviewer: What’s your annual income?
Me: I make 600,000 INR per year
Interviewer: What’s the purpose of your visit?
Me: My Client wants to buy a home in the US, So, they called me
Interviewer: Are you unmarried/single?
Me: Yes, I’m single
Interviewer: Sorry I can’t give you the VISA. Please take your Passport.
Me: Hi, Good Morning
VO: Good Morning, Passport please.
Me: (Gave my passport through the path provided in the glass chamber)
VO: Hey what is the purpose of your visit?
Me: The purpose of my visit…
VO: Can you please come closer to the mic.
Me: Sure Ma’am. (After reaching at the mic) My purpose of the visit is to gather business requirements for our audit application, we have designed app to understand the business.
VO: Ok.. Can you explain what is the Audit Application?
Me: Audit application eliminates all those traditional manual processes with pen & papers with the automated one. The 1st phase of this application has completed, now it’s the time of the second phase, I’m going there to gather the requirement for phase -2 to understand the business.
VO: What is your Designation?
Me: I’m working as a Business Analyst in XXX Private Limited.
VO: What is your current salary?
Me: 60,000 INR per month (what I mentioned in VISA form)
VO: Where you will stay in the US?
Me: Reston, Virginia
VO: You will work there?
Me: Never
VO: Just assure me how you get a comeback?
Me: See, my husband will be here in India during that time..So, I have to come back.
VO: Ok…Congratulations for traveling (with a smile)
Me: Thank You…Have a nice day!!!