How do individuals apply to travel to the United States?

General visa process in the United States:

Armed police check passports and enter the embassy; Enter the safe site; Submit the form (DS 160 Form Print Confirmation Page); Queue to record fingerprints; Waiting in line for a face-to-face interview; Interview. Special instructions:

Applicants for visas to the US Embassy in China should note that the US Embassy cannot bring bags, metal objects, electronic equipment (cell phone lighters) and other items into the embassy, but car keys can be brought in. Please don't take your bag into the embassy. It is not safe for it to hide your bag at the entrance of the embassy. Please make corresponding preparations in advance.

Detailed process:

1. There is a long line waiting to enter the American Embassy outside the iron fence of the Embassy.

2. The armed police released the personnel in batches. At this time, the information should be in hand, and the armed police looked at their watches and released them into the embassy compound.

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

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

5. Submit materials in line.

6. Line up for fingerprints.

7. Next, wait in line for an interview with an American visa officer. In this process, you can hear and see other people answer together with the visa officer.

8. After the interview, you will usually receive a note, which is a notice of visa approval. Then the passport will be taken away by the visa officer who gave you a face-to-face visa. At this point, the interview process is over.

Tip: If you receive a visa approval notice, you will receive a passport with an American visa within the next 1-3 weeks. The collection method depends on the method you originally selected. Some are mailed, and some are picked up by CITIC Bank. If you contact an intermediary to help you apply for a visa, 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 official website () to apply for an American visa.

In addition, there will be a situation. Although you have received VO's visa approval notice, it has been reviewed by the administrative department. This will take longer, and you need to check the status at any time. Usually, particularly sensitive industries are more likely to be submitted for administrative review. Don't-don't panic. Most of the administrative examiners were successfully found out after being examined, just waiting a little longer.

The picture shows the inquiry page of administrative reconsideration status.

Travel to the United States can only be organized by travel agencies, and it is difficult for single young people to get tourist visas. In response to a series of popular rumors about visas to the United States, the US Consulate General in Shanghai held a press conference yesterday. Lin Yan, director and consul of the Consular Section of the US Consulate, denied these false rumors. So far, China and the United States have not signed a destination agreement, but this does not mean that China tourists cannot travel to the United States by themselves. American consulate officials said that the United States welcomes tourists from China very much. As long as you meet the requirements, you can apply for a tourist visa from the consulate yourself. Some applicants worry that tourists are not welcome in the United States, and applying for a business visa instead may be self-defeating. Even if you apply for a visa through a tour group organized by a travel agency, it only appears in the form of a group in the procedures of telephone reservation, submission of materials and visa interview. When examining the application materials, the visa officer still decides whether to issue a tourist visa according to each applicant's personal situation. So there is no tourist visa for group visas to the United States. Therefore, the credibility, business scale and team size of the travel agency entrusted by the applicant will not affect the visa result. As for the qualifications of tourism applicants, including financial information such as overseas experience and frequency, working time and time in a certain industry, monthly income and family information such as family residence, the US Consulate stated that there is no rigid requirement for the above conditions, but a comprehensive judgment is made on whether the applicant will return to China on time. Therefore, applicants who have never been abroad, have low wages and have not worked long hours are likely to get visas. In response to the popular saying that it is difficult to sign a bachelor's degree, the US Consulate said that unmarried young people in Shanghai generally have high academic qualifications, good jobs and bright prospects, and it is easy to obtain tourist visas. So far, there are many successful examples. In contrast, those middle-aged and elderly applicants who retire in their 40 s and 50 s, have low education level and have children studying or working in the United States have the highest probability of being rejected when applying for tourist visas. American consulate officials pointed out that in order to attract customers, individual travel agencies have made some promises, such as the travel agency has internal channels in the consulate, which is definitely untrue. In addition, some travel agencies will persuade customers to buy fake work certificates and fake business invitations in order to improve their visa rates. However, once these false materials are exposed, the applicant may be refused a life visa to the United States. You can apply for a B-2 visa for sightseeing, entertainment, visiting relatives and friends, seeking medical treatment, attending conferences, exhibitions and personal affairs. In America. B-2 tourist visas can be divided into three months, 1 year, three years, five years, 10 year and permanent, and the number of entry times can be divided into single entry and multiple entry. American embassies and consulates in different countries or regions, or different consuls in the same consulate, have great discretion over the validity or number of entry visas. At present, it is easier for Hong Kong and Taiwan residents to apply for multiple entry B-2 visas for one to five years, while it is easier for Chinese mainland residents to apply for one or more entry B-2 visas for three months to one year. The difficulty of applying for a B-2 visa depends on different countries and situations. Visitors from some countries in the United States are exempt from visas, such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. However, at present, nationals from Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and Singapore. B-2 does not grant visa-free treatment. Generally speaking, in areas where it is difficult to apply for a B visa, such as Chinese mainland, the main factors considered by the visa consul are the necessity of the applicant going to the United States and whether the applicant has an immigration tendency. Financial ability is an important consideration in theory, but it is often not the most important 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.