US tourist visa application experience

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1. Wouldn’t it depend on what country you’re from? Probably the same process regardless of where you are.
   Us Japanese don’t need visa when visiting so

2. Depends on your nationality.

   I went with my friends to wait with them and wrote a letter for them. We go turned away at the door ha.

3. If you’re Japanese you can apply for ESTA online–just google it up.

   If you’re some other nationality, then it’ll depend on that, and you’ll need to do your own googling to find out what the requirements are.

4. I applied last September and got approved. I’m not Japanese btw, the interview went pretty quick.. you are all line up and there are 3 or 4 open booths where you can actually hear other person interview and result which is quite nerve wracking.. As for the supporting documents, I submitted bank certificate, travel itinerary, payslip (3 months), coe (position, salary, employment period). Like what others mentioned, depending on your nationality you may need to submit additional documents on top of those so please check on their website.

5. My husband is Malaysian. He got a B1/B2 visa when we were engaged so he could go with me for Christmas and meet my family.

   We submitted three months of paystubs (original and translated), his work contract (original and translated), and a copy of his bank statement to show he has reason to return to Japan. He has a 5 year engineer/humanities visa.

   He was open about the fact that his partner is American. He told them the purpose of his travel was to visit my family for Christmas.

   They asked:

   – why are you traveling to the US?
   – where does your partner live?
   – what she work as?
   – do you work in the same company?
   – how long have you been in japan?

   Your questions will obviously be different. After they found out his travel was related to his partner, they wanted to check if he was going to the US in order to marry me there and try to stay.

   He actually applied for B2 (tourist) but they gave him the B1/B2 combo visa.

6. The only important thing is to never lie. US agencies have lots of info they gather about you before you even arrive to the interview, as long as you are honest then is no problem. They obviously have stricter filters for people of certain nationalities but it shouldn’t be a problem if you have all your documentations prepared