How to write a letter of complaint about American visa?

After the visa is rejected, American students can apply for a complaint by submitting a complaint letter if they think that the reasons for refusing the visa are unfair and unreasonable. It should be noted that you can apply for a visa complaint only if you meet certain conditions, and you should follow the corresponding principles when writing. Let's take a look.

Introduction of American visa complaint letter

The complaint letter in American visa is a document that the visa applicant explains and refutes the unreasonable and unfair refusal and submits it to another visa officer in writing. Unlike ordinary letters of complaint, the reader of your letter of complaint about your visa in the United States is another visa officer in the visa office of the same consulate. This visa officer is a colleague of the visa officer who refused your visa, not a superior; Another difference is that American visas are mainly reviewed through interviews rather than documents, so the American visa complaint letter only plays a supporting role in your visa at best, and ultimately depends on your interview performance. Therefore, the writing of complaint letters in American visas should not only meet the standard of standard English business letters, but also consider whether you need to write complaint letters, when and how to write them in order to achieve good results.

Applicable situation

You only need a letter of complaint if:

1, refused to sign at least twice, once signed, twice signed without a complaint letter.

2. The visa officer's refusal is obviously unreasonable. For example, one of our clients went to the United States to study LLM, but the visa officer thought that she had no work experience and did not meet the requirements of LLM. This obvious mistake can be refuted by a letter of complaint. The school (and a famous American law school) has been admitted, which shows that full-time work experience is not a necessary condition for studying LLM. Although my past part-time job was not full-time, it was a quality experience recognized by the school, and I have the ability and qualification to study LLM.

Your situation is particularly complicated. Unlike most visa applicants, but I can't explain it clearly for a minute or two. For example, we have a customer who has worked in the central bank for 10 years and worked in a business firm for 5 years. He went to an American university to study banking law. At first glance, this situation is very weak, and the chance of passing is very small. An elite like him should go abroad for training instead of studying full-time like other young students. But in one case, the school's banking law project recruits people like him. In this case, he can explain the particularity of the program and his own particularity through a complaint letter or a self-report letter. Training? Motivation (not? Study? Purpose).

Writing principle

When writing a US visa complaint letter, we must follow the following principles:

1, refute forcefully.

Prove yourself with strong logic and facts? Innocent? As well as the mistakes of visa officers, we should resolutely point out that visa officers are unreasonable, unfair, not serious and do not act according to regulations at an appropriate time. This is often not available to most students in China, especially those? The future is bleak, and the back road is broken? Bet all your money on students studying abroad. For example, last year, a student applied for a visa for the second time, and the visa officer went to consult the visa officer who refused the visa last time. Tell him clearly when he comes back that he can't overturn his colleagues' decision. The whole process refused him without asking him any questions! This is obviously a serious violation of the regulations publicized by the American Embassy in official website, but the student did not dare to refute it on the spot.

We should know that there is no formal complaint procedure for visa refusal in the US visa system, but almost every applicant can apply again or multiple times. Re-applying is equivalent to making a complaint and submitting new materials to the visa officer. Therefore, the US Embassy stipulates that a person who was previously refused a visa but now applies for a visa should be treated completely differently and given a fair opportunity to prove his visa qualification. America is a rational country. As long as your logic is reasonable, you can point out the irrationality and injustice of the visa officer rationally, profitably and reasonably, so that the visa officer has to accept your logic and change the previous unreasonable decision.

2. Go straight to the point and come directly.

This requires the applicant to have a clear understanding of why he was refused a visa, which is the premise for you to write a complaint letter. If you don't know why the visa officer refused your visa, what do you want to complain about? All the applicants who were refused visas were finally told that they were inclined to emigrate. However, the visa officer will generally have more detailed reasons to judge that you are inclined to emigrate, but the visa officer will generally not tell you what the reasons are, but will mark them on your application form, which requires you to carefully review all the details of your interview and determine the main reasons for refusing the visa. In this way, when writing, you can list the reasons for the visa officer's refusal, and then refute them one by one through logic and facts to prove that the visa officer's refusal is wrong.

3, must be concise, easy to understand, to meet the norms of English letter writing (concise, authentic).

You know, reading your complaint letter is the most impatient person in the world. Visa officers have to face many applicants every day, ask many same questions, endure many different applicants' same answers, and make decisions that are crucial to the applicants' future in a minute or two. We must sympathize with them, and we must make the complaint letter concise, standardized and easy to understand, so that they can understand your thoughts and logic at a glance. Therefore, your petition letter had better not exceed one page. It's best to exclude too professional content. It's best to ask an English writer to write it. At least a foreign friend with excellent English writing or a foreign friend in China should polish it.

Key points of writing

Writing level specification:

Many students who write letters of complaint to visa officers complain that visa officers don't read letters of complaint. This is a misunderstanding. Visa officers do read letters of complaint, but visa officers don't read poorly written letters of complaint. It is a big problem that the complaint letter drafted by myself can't reach the minimum level of English writing in form and content.

Even if you are an excellent English undergraduate, your writing quality is at most equivalent to that of junior high school students in the United States. The writing of letters in American real life is very different from that in domestic textbooks. In order to ensure the quality of the text, it is best to let friends who come back from abroad polish your complaint letter. Really not, at least let someone from a professional translation company polish it for you.

The writing is concise and lively:

Visa offices in the United States receive a large number of people waiting for visas every day, and visa officers process an application in an average of several minutes. Especially in the busy summer, the visa officer's mental and physical state will not be too good. Your letter of complaint only has an instant opportunity for the visa officer to scan it in a hurry, so you must catch his attention in an instant. Therefore, it is particularly important to write succinctly and clearly.

This argument is firm and reasonable:

The purpose of the complaint letter is only one, that is, to refute the visa refusal. If there is no great grievance, why complain? The basic format of the complaint letter should be: after a brief opening statement, give the reasons for the visa officer's refusal, and then refute them one by one. The power of refutation comes not from rude criticism, but from the power of logic and argument. As long as you clearly point out and logically prove that the reasons for the visa officer's refusal are wrong, this in itself constitutes great pressure, which will make the visa officer have to change his previous refusal decision.