How do individuals apply to travel to the United States?

General U.S. visa process:

Armed police check passports and enter the embassy; enter the security site; submit the form (DS160 form print confirmation page); line up to record fingerprints; line up for interview; interview . Special reminder:

Visa applicants from the U.S. Embassy in China need to note that the U.S. Embassy cannot bring bags, metal objects, electronic devices (mobile phone lighters) and other items into the embassy, ??but car keys can Bring in. Please do not bring your bags into the embassy. It's not safe to hide your bag at the embassy entrance. Please prepare accordingly in advance.

Detailed process:

1. There was a long queue outside the iron fence of the embassy waiting to enter the US Embassy.

2. The armed police released people in batches. At this time, the information should be in hand. The armed police checked their watches and let them enter the embassy compound.

3. Enter the embassy yard, continue to queue, wait for the small window at the embassy entrance to check your passport, and then enter the embassy security gate.

4. After security check, enter the embassy. This is the real visa hall.

5. Submit materials and queue up.

6. Queue up and press fingerprints.

7. Next, wait in line to be interviewed by a US visa officer. During this process, you can hear and see other people answering along with the visa officer.

8. After the interview, you will usually receive a note, which is a visa approval notice. Your passport will then be taken away by the visa officer who interviews you. At this point, the interview process ends.

Tip: If you receive the "Visa Approval Notification", you will receive your passport with a US visa in the next 1-3 weeks. The collection method depends on the method you initially selected. Some are mailed, and some are picked up by CITIC Bank. If you contact an agency to apply for a visa for you, your passport will be in the hands of your original visa agency first. They will forward it to you. If you haven't received your passport for more than 3 weeks, you need to go to the official website () to apply for a US visa.

In addition, there will be a situation where although you have received the "Visa Approval Notification" from VO, it has been reviewed by the administration. This will take longer and you will need to check the status at any time. Typically, particularly sensitive industries are more likely to be selected for administrative review. Don't panic. Most of the administrative examiners checked out smoothly after being reviewed, but they just had to wait a little longer.

The picture shows the administrative review status query page.

Travel to the United States can only be organized by travel agencies, and it is difficult for single young people to obtain a tourist visa. In response to a series of popular rumors about visas to the United States, the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai held a press conference yesterday. He Juezhi, director of the consular section of the U.S. consulate, and Lin Yan, the consul, denied these false rumors. So far, China and the United States have not signed a tourist destination agreement, but that does not mean that Chinese tourists cannot travel to the United States on their own. U.S. consulate officials stated that the United States very much welcomes tourists from China. As long as they meet the requirements, they can apply for a tourist visa from the consulate on their own. Some applicants worry that tourists are not welcome in the United States and applying for a business visa instead could be self-defeating. Even if you apply for a visa through a tour group organized by a travel agency, you will only appear as a group during the phone reservation, submission of materials, visa interview and other procedures. When reviewing application materials, the visa officer still decides whether to issue a tourist visa based on each applicant's personal circumstances. Therefore, there is no group visa for tourist visas to the United States. Therefore, factors such as the reputation, business scale, and team size of the travel agency entrusted by the applicant will not affect the visa result. As for the qualifications of travel applicants, including experience and frequency of traveling abroad, working hours and hours in a certain industry, financial information such as monthly income, and family information such as family residence, the U.S. Consulate stated that there are no rigid requirements for the above conditions, but a comprehensive judgment Whether the applicant will return to the country on time. Therefore, applicants who have never been abroad, have low wages, and do not work long hours are likely to get a visa. In response to the popular saying that it is difficult for singles to get visas, the US Consulate stated that unmarried young people in Shanghai generally have high academic qualifications, good jobs and bright futures, so it is easy to obtain tourist visas. There are many successful examples so far. In contrast, middle-aged and elderly applicants who have retired in their 40s or 50s, have low education levels, small pensions, and have children studying or working in the United States have the highest probability of being rejected when applying for a tourist visa. U.S. consulate officials pointed out that in order to attract customers, individual travel agencies make certain promises, such as that the travel agency has internal channels at the consulate, which is certainly untrue. In addition, in order to increase the visa rate for customers, some travel agencies will persuade customers to buy fake work certificates, fake business invitation letters, etc. However, once these false materials are exposed, the applicant may be rejected by the United States for life. You can apply for a B-2 visa for sightseeing, entertainment, visiting relatives and friends, medical treatment, attending conferences, exhibitions, personal matters, etc. In the U.S. B-2 tourist visas can be divided into 3 months, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years and permanent, and the number of entries can be divided into single entry and multiple entries. U.S. embassies and consulates in different countries or regions, or different consuls in the same consulate, have great discretion over the validity period of the visa or the number of entries. Currently, it is easier for residents of Hong Kong and Taiwan to apply for a B-2 visa with multiple entries from one to five years, and it is easier for residents of mainland China to apply for a B-2 visa with one or more entries from three months to a year.

The difficulty of applying for a B-2 visa depends on the country and circumstances. Visitors from some countries in the United States are visa-free, such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. However, currently, nationals from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other places. B-2 visa exemption is not granted. Generally speaking, in areas where it is difficult to apply for a B visa, such as mainland China, the main factors considered by the visa consulate are the applicant's necessity to go to the United States and whether the applicant has the intention to immigrate. Financial ability is an important consideration in theory, but is often not the most important factor in visa cases.

Therefore, applicants should focus on how to provide strong materials to prove that it is extremely necessary to go to the United States and will return to the United States