 Welcome back to the F1 video series. Today's video is going to be all about real-life F1 visa interviews. So we're going to be discussing three such cases which are going to help you in your preparation. Keep on watching. Hi guys, my name is Shachi. I'm a travel and visa coach. On this channel you will find tons of useful videos on the US visa process. So make sure that you check them out. Now we are in the F1 visa series and the first video in this series was all about the basics of F1 visa. So if you haven't watched that video yet, make sure that you check this out. Today's video like I said is going to be about real-life F1 visa interviews. So I have three profiles for you. All the three profiles are very different from each other. They basically represent three candidates who are from different backgrounds, who had different purpose of studying in the United States and we are going to be looking at their interview experiences and this is definitely going to help you in your preparation. So let's get started. So let's start with the first profile. So as a first profile I have a candidate who had completed his 10th standard and he was a state-level basketball player and he had gotten an admit from a high school in the US. So he basically wanted to go to the US, complete his high school and this admit was on a basketball scholarship. So the purpose was essentially to complete the high school in the US and get coached or get trained to play basketball. Now this candidate gave two F1 visa interviews. The first visa interview resulted in a rejection and the second one resulted in him getting the visa. So we're going to analyze both of these interviews and see what exactly went wrong in the first one and how he corrected that in the second one. So when he went for the first visa interview, the questions that were asked to him were why USA for high school, why not complete your high school in India, why the interest in basketball. He was also asked a lot of technical questions related to basketball just to see how genuine of a player he was and most importantly his future plans after high school in the US. Now the most probable reason why his visa got rejected in the first time was because when asked for his future plans he mentioned that in the future he wanted to join professional leagues in the US and you know play basketball there. Now of course this is something which was bay into the future. It would be something that would happen after he finished his high school you know his graduation and then so on. But typically in a visa interview when a visa officer is asking you about your future plan it is what do you plan to do once you complete the education for which you are going to the US at present. So he should have basically spoken about his future plan after completing his high school. Moreover by talking about joining professional leagues in the US it clearly showed that he had no intention to come back to his home country which resulted in a visa denial. Now when he went for the visa interview the next time what the candidate did essentially was to show stronger ties to his home country and a much stronger intention to come back after completing his high school. So he did his research about the possible undergrad colleges in India and when asked what he planned to do after his high school he mentioned very specifically that he plans to join this particular undergrad college which is known for its sports team in particular for his basketball team so that he could come back to India complete his graduation and at the same time continue to play basketball making use of all the training and the coaching that he would have received in the US. Moreover he also mentioned that his intention was to play the sport for India at a national level so he would also continue to try for that. So overall the profile of the candidate had everything in place he had a very valid reason to go to the US he had a clear purpose what he wanted to do in the US all that remained to be done was to show stronger ties to home country and intention to come back which was corrected in the second interview resulting in a visa approval. Moving on to the second profile now second profile we have a candidate who had completed his BTEC in mechanical engineering he had worked for three years in the automobile sector and he wanted to go to the US to do a masters in mechanical engineering and he had several admits but the one that he preferred was from the University of Texas. Now this candidate when he went for the visa interview he got the visa on the first try itself so the first visa interview was a success and his visa was granted. The interview questions that were asked to him were by masters after three years of working by University of Texas by not complete the masters from India itself how will you find your education and what are your plans after doing your masters. So let's look at how the candidate answered some of the interview questions and what clicked and what was the reason his visa was accepted. The first thing that worked for the candidate was that there was a very clear link between his undergraduate his work experience and his masters all three were in the same line they were in the same field and there was a direct connect between the two. So the candidate was able to justify that having studied mechanical engineering having worked in the automobile sector he needed the masters degree to basically advance his career in this field to learn more and to be aware of what are the cutting-edge technologies and cutting-edge methods that are being followed in the automobile sector. Second reason that worked for him was that he was very clear about his future plan he was very clear that after completing his masters he wanted to come back to India and join the same company he had already worked for three years at the company he was pretty happy with his experience and his time there and he was very clear that after finishing his masters he wanted to come back and join the same company at a much better designation and of course a much better salary and the third thing was that the funding was in place the candidate had a loan sanctioned he had his own savings because he had worked for three years as a backup he also had some family funds so all the funding was in place there was enough buffer to fund the education and there were also enough backup options. Coming to the third profile now for the third profile we have a candidate who is an undergrad student so he was doing his under graduation in biomedical sciences and he had completed two years in India and he wanted to do the remaining two years in the US so his college had a tie-up with a university in the US which allowed him to pursue the last two years of his undergrad in the US. Now when he went for the interview in the first attempt the visa got rejected and in the first attempt he was just asked one single question which is why pursue two years from a US university why not do it in India itself from your current college. Now the probable reason why his visa got rejected in the first attempt was that the candidate was not convincing enough about why he wanted to do two years in the US when you know he had the option of continuing in the same college and finishing his undergrad in India etc. When he went for the visa interview the next time what we essentially worked on was on refining what his plans would be in the two years in the US and why a US degree would make a difference as compared to studying in India and the whole idea was to convince the visa officer that the two years there would not be a general degree in biomedical sciences it would involve doing some amount of specialization. So the candidate here was essentially interested in diagnostics and he was also interested in a particular field in diagnostics and the two years in the US university allowed him to specialize in that as compared to India where he would be doing a general degree in biomedical sciences. So he was able to convince the visa officer that studying for two years there would give him this advantage of specializing in diagnostics which would help him when he came back to India. He had also done his research about the job opportunities in India and about the hospitals in India where he would get immediately employed with a specialized degree in diagnostics. So with him in the second visa interview which resulted in an acceptance the entire approach was to be very specific about the plans and not to be generic at all not to say that I am going to the US to finish two years in biomedical sciences but to narrow it down to what exactly he wanted to focus on and specialize in in those two years. So here we have discussed three different profiles all the three candidates are from different background they had a different purpose of studying in the US and of course they had very different visa interview experiences. Now the main points that we discussed were of course the key reasons highlighting you know their interview experience the actual prep that went into these interviews was much more in-depth it was much more detailed if you want to prepare for your F1 visa interview with me you can do that as well you can either book a consultation session with me or you can also take a mock interview the link for all these things is in the description box below. We also have a course the F1 prep course and this course will essentially help you in preparing your answers for the interview and getting ready for the day. So you can also check out this course in the description box below. So this was the second video in the F1 visa series stay tuned for the next video next week we're going to be talking all about financials. So funding is a huge part of F1 visa acceptance or rejection reasons and we're going to be talking all about it how how much funding you need how do you need to present it and what are the supporting documents that you need with it. So make sure that you subscribe and hit the bell icon so that you don't miss out on this video. Thank you so much for watching. Signing off for now I'll see you in the next one. Bye.