尽管听说签证形势一片大好,我仍是怀着如临大敌的心情去面试的。阴影主要来自于2007年我去签B2被拒。当时签证时过于自信,觉得自己是四大的,公司隶属美国商会,大三交流去欧洲一年,英语口语流利,肯定没问题。结果犯了一个弱智而致命的错误,害的VO不得不据我。所以这次准备起来特别用心,虽然知道自己在overdo仍丝毫不敢懈怠
预约在下午1:15刻,提前一个小时到了梅隆镇。惊讶发觉这次和上次大不相同。记得当时队伍都长长一直排在外面,但今天门口什么人都没有,直接上到八楼才看到10来个人,非常冷清。后来知道今天下午只有50个预约。我带了超大的文件包,里面塞满了资料,超重无比。环顾四周,大概就我带的东西最多了。
我大概是第10 个面试的,只开了二个窗口,一男一女。我是女签证官面的,看上去30多岁,深麦色皮肤,棕色头发,感觉有点拉丁裔,不拘言笑。 我一上去就递给她事先准备好的material list,她先对着纸楞了二秒钟,然后说不需要。接着开始问话:
VO: Why are you going to US?
Me: To pursue master degree in quantitative and computational finance
VO: What's computational finance?
Me: Applying quantitative skill and in-depth finance knowledge to model....
VO: Oki, i know (点头示意并打断我). So how many year have you been working for XXX( my company)?
Me: Three Years. Do you want to see my employment certification?
VO: No. So are you still together with the same boyfriend who you planned to visit two years ago?
Me: No,not any more. We broke up about a year ago
VO: Oh, About a year ago.....So do you know why you were declined two years ago?
Me: Probably because they thought i wanted to immigrate...
VO: (刚才还心不在焉,听到immigrate突然睁大眼睛盯着我,有点惊讶的说)You want to immigrate?
Me: NO. You were asking me do i know why i got declined so i told you that, Because i was declined under term 214(b),which qualify....
VO: (回过神明白了我的意思, 于是又打断了我) Oh, i see. So how many years you work for XXX?(同样的问题又问了我一遍)
Me:Three years
VO: Oki. Pass. Good luck in US.
居然最后什么资料都没看。奇怪的是,我是全自费,居然连我的财力证明都不看,真是很水果阿。结果我把厚重的公文包原封不动的再带了回来。
本次面试大水果总结如下:
- 面试开始递张Material List 还是有雷人的效果,让签证官意识到你材料准备充分,给VO的感觉是bring all the things just to tell the truth。这样反而使VO认为没有必要再看certificates了。
- 有时据签经历也可以有正面效果,我二年前visit boyfirend被拒,现在签F1反而有摆脱移民的嫌疑。如果我想immigrate的话,我完全可以在这二年里内通过fiancee visa或结婚签证过去,何必费力搞什么学习签证呢?logic上不make sense.
- 如果有据签经历并在2000时被问起的话,就说自己当时是被哪个条款据的,以免引起不必要的misunderstanding.
最后ironicly quote 一句 "如果你签证过了,你可能做过充分准备,也可能准备并不好,靠运气过去。如果你签证没过,那么你一定是没认真准备!"
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