Step 1: data preparation. Like everyone else, the experience of preparing for an American visa is similar. In order to save trouble, I bought the American visa service directly from Ctrip, RMB 1290, including? 1 120 embassy visa fee ~ the exchange rate is hard enough ~ what else? Ctrip service fee 170. The service provided by Ctrip is to help customers fill in the DS- 160 form (all the information is provided by customers themselves, and some places are worried that Ctrip will provide some English instructions), pay visa fees, help make an appointment for an interview, and make an appointment form. Whether the money is worth it depends on whether you have time to study those forms. Everything is not difficult, and you can get a clear strategy at your fingertips. There is a clear list of supporting documents on Ctrip, just follow the preparation.
Step 2: Embassy. Line up at the entrance of the embassy 45 minutes in advance. In fact, when you go in, no one cares about your appointment time at all. The doorman at the door will check the appointment time. If you arrive too early, you won't put it in. The sign at the door clearly says that you are not allowed to enter more than 30 minutes in advance. When I went there, the staff inside just asked the doorman not to get a card. So I entered the embassy around 12: 50, and my appointment time was 1: 30. It seems that the time you wait at the door depends entirely on luck, that is, there are not many people inside, and the staff will control the flow. They don't want to queue up and catch the first wave in the morning, but it's too early to get up.
Once you enter the embassy, the appointment is no longer important. Take your passport and DS- 160, queue up and other stickers. The staff will put a bar code number on the back of your passport, and then let you enter the indoor security check. All electronic equipment, including electronic watches, USB flash drives, etc. No, you can't. You can bring in the car keys. There is a place opposite the embassy where you can deposit your bags. When waiting in line at the entrance of the embassy, the school sisters who earn money by saving bags will tell you with sharp eyes what you can't bring into the embassy, and then you can save them directly, so you don't have to go out to queue again. Personally, the big sister group at the door wants a long-term career, which is relatively credible. However, it is king not to bring valuables to the embassy.
If you drive, there are many parking spaces opposite the embassy, and someone directs parking. One hour 15 yuan, no bargain.
After passing the security check, you queue up to brush your passport, put DS- 160 in your passport and hand it in to the window. The window will give you a digital sign. After swiping the card, the passport will be returned according to the digital sign. If you need photos at this time, you can take them away.
Then the fingerprints are recorded. First, scan the bar code posted by the staff on the back of the passport, then put the four fingers of the left hand together, the four fingers of the right hand together, and the index fingers of both hands together. The staff is very gentle. After taking their fingerprints, they can go out and wait in line for the face-to-face signing.
Step 3: Interview. I thought the interview was invited to the cabin for questioning, but it wasn't at all. It's no different from the window I went to before. Like the bank, I communicate with the interviewer through the glass. I am too small to communicate with my eyes.
The questions I am asked are very standard, such as what to do in the United States, whether to go with a group or by myself, where to go to school, what degree, what major to study, where to work and what to do specifically. The work proves that I didn't read anything I thought was very important, such as "Running Water in the Bank", and I asked people not to read it. It's always in Chinese. As long as you always answer questions in Chinese, people don't need to communicate with you in English. Tourist visa, reasonable.
Step 4: the end. Sadly, I gave the administrative reconsideration form-221g. I don't know why, and I dare not ask. After all, people took my passport, and I didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble, so I refused it directly. With this list, it feels like a tennis match that has played a deciding game. The review time ranges from 30 days to 60 days, and may be longer. What else can I say? After all, people didn't directly refuse your visa.
Tips:
As far as I can see at the embassy, all the single women in front of me were rejected. If you have family members in the United States, you should bring your family information. One of them just couldn't offer anything and was rejected. Middle-aged and elderly people over 50 years old have passed, and some elderly people are already 70+, and their ears are not working well, so they have passed. Therefore, as long as you bring your parents, it should be 100%.
It is said that white male visa officers are better, but personally, it is also an illusion. During my stay, two rejected girls were rejected by whites at different windows. So picking a window may not be useful.
I don't think it's a good choice before the Spring Festival. At this time, the proportion of elderly people traveling with their families is too high, which is generally guaranteed. Young women who are single and unmarried like us are more likely to become cannon fodder.
My processing time is not peak, but it took me an hour and a half from the beginning of the queue to the departure. I was in line most of the time. I also printed some novels and put them in my file bag. It turned out that I didn't have time to see them, and my energy was attracted by all kinds of small things around me.
I feel that there are routines whether it is refusal or administrative reconsideration. Basically, Lei, who is inclined to emigrate, stepped on it, and you took your parents with you to apply for a visa. If you are rejected once, you will be in trouble later. As for what those thunder are, being single without children is definitely a problem, and being unemployed is also a problem. Traveling alone is a trivial matter, and I vaguely feel that highly educated engineering students are also a pit. Anyway, the visa officer won't tell you the reason for refusing the visa, just play blindfolded.
Some information on the Internet says that highly educated engineers have a high probability of being censored. I don't think they actually performed well and didn't make things clear to the visa officer. It won't happen again anyway. Personal intuition, visa officers are also human beings, so the attitude of communication should be supercilious. When you see a person with a particularly embarrassing attitude, but without any information, you will leave angrily after being directly rejected. If I emphasize that I work in an American company, maybe the result will be better. If you know that your major is sensitive, you can prepare some simple and insensitive explanations at the beginning, and the result may be different. If it is stated from the beginning that the trip in February is a birthday present for myself, I wonder if it will arouse the sympathy of the visa officer. You know, once the administrative reconsideration is given, you can't leave for a while.
The visa officer only looked at the passport and resume. Therefore, passports are very important. Those who have the ability to sign a Japanese visa may consider signing a Japanese visa first. There are several trips to Singapore in my passport, and I believe these are still useful. If you have a higher education, you should prepare your resume. You can prepare a simple and detailed-covering your research direction and all published works, and you can bring your company description. These materials should be in English, easy to understand and harmless to people and animals.
The reason why American visas are chewed like chewing gum may lie in their randomness and subjectivity. Visa officers do not use absolute standards to evaluate whether a person can go to the United States. So, good luck to everyone.
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To apply for a visa to the United States in China, you need to go to your permanent residence (stay for more than one year) or the consular district where the visa is issued. ?
Beijing Territory: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Jiangxi and Inner Mongolia.
Shanghai area: Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui.
Guangzhou: Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Hainan.
Shenyang area: Jilin, Heilongjiang and Liaoning
Chengdu: Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan and Tibet.
I am the ninth among the top ten sensitive majors (there are 14 sensitive majors online, which is easy to find). I thought it was a problem to have only a study visa. It seems that tourist visas are also at risk of being checked. I have never been a good student at school. I didn't think going to America was serious. Should the boss give me a raise for this high-tech talent?
I. Particularity of conventional ammunition
This major involves large-caliber single-number technology such as warhead technology, as well as reaction armor and warhead elimination system, initiation and armed system.
Second, the nuclear technology major
This major includes the use and production technology of nuclear materials for military and peacekeeping. It also includes technologies such as nuclear fuel filling and irradiated nuclear fuel reproduction.
Three, missile and missile technology specialty
This major involves aircraft and missile systems. The work involved includes the development of satellite launch vehicle and the establishment of missile trajectory. The technologies to be used include rocket systems, missile orbits, space launch vehicles, sounding rockets, unmanned aerial equipment and re-entry equipment.
Four, aircraft, missile propulsion and vehicle systems and propulsion technology
Related is the propulsion system for near-earth supersonic flight of aircraft and missiles. Most of these technologies have a dual role. The technologies involved are liquid and solid rocket propulsion systems; Rocket propulsion and system integration: separate rocket separation mechanism; Propulsion system test equipment.
V. Navigation and pilotage control
These technologies directly determine the accuracy and lethality of guided and unguided weapons transportation. The development and application of these technologies need a long time, which also becomes the resistance to limit the development of this technology. The technologies involved include internal navigation system; Tracking; Objective homing setting; Accelerometer; Aircraft and flight control system.
Intransitive Verb Chemistry and Biotechnology Engineering
Of particular concern is the ability to develop, produce and disseminate toxic chemicals and biotoxin preparations. Technologies that can be used to produce chemical and biological agents are widely used in private research laboratories and factories. In most countries, this technology is basically the same. Advanced biotechnology provides support for the research of chemical and biological weapons. Technologies related to this kind of research include bacteriology (especially pathogenic bacteria); Mutagen; Fungology; Neurotoxin; Toxins; Venom; Virology; Precursor chemistry; Chemical production equipment and so on.
Seven, remote sensing imaging and reconnaissance.
Remote sensing imaging technology itself has dual purposes, one is for civil imaging engineering, and the other is for military detectives. Remote-controlled aircraft and long-range manned vehicles can improve reconnaissance capability. These technologies are complementary to remote sensing imaging satellites, imaging systems, high-resolution cameras and optics.
Eight, advanced computer and microelectronics technology.
Advanced computer software plays an important role in the development of missiles and missile systems, as well as in the development and production of nuclear weapons. Advanced computer technology has also been applied to over-the-horizon target attack, airborne early warning target and electronic countermeasure processor. Related technologies include supercomputing, hybrid computing, speech processing and recognition system, neural network, data fusion, quantum well and resonant tunneling.
Nine, material technology major
Closely related to airplanes, spaceships, missiles, submarines and propulsion devices are metals, ceramics and composite materials. People will choose special materials and use their electromagnetic absorption, magnetism and superconductivity to meet the key functions of these devices. Related technologies involved include advanced metals and alloys, non-composite ceramic materials, cement, organic and carbon materials, polymeric materials and synthetic fluids.
X. information security specialty
Information security technologies include cryptography and cryptographic systems to ensure the confidentiality of information, video, data and related software.