I was all set on 6th of June 2010 for the VISA intv. I told everyone that the chances are 50-50 so don't keep any hopes. Wishing inside that please God make me totally wrong and make the VO grant me a VISA. Although, I had prepared myself for a rejection well, I never thought that I would have taken it so bad. I had failed in exams, got compartments but this, this was the worst experience I ever had! My Intv. was at 1:35 pm. I started from home at 10:30am reaching there by 11:15am. Thinking that I should be before time. BAD IDEA!! :( There was nothing to sit on, no shelter - as if saying - "We don't want you". Well, to make it worse, it started raining heavily continuously for 2 hours. And I swear, that it stopped the moment I went into the complex, huh!! bad mood God ?? Well take it on Guneet... So, finally I went in and got my Intv. No. P238. My No. came after about 20 min. There was another building I had to go into. My counter No. was 2 and an Indian girl was sitting there. I thought that I had been granted a VISA as she asked me quest. and told me to go for the fingerprint checking. When I reached the other room only then I saw the Americans (VO) sitting behind the windows. I sat there for a moment. 99% of the ppl. were students. A Few of them came smiling back from the counter. I was on in 15 min. He was a American with scrutinizing eyes. He asked me for my documents. He did not understand him. It was not because of his accent but there was some problem in the mike. I asked him several times afterwards that I was unable to hear him- there was some prob. with the audio. Later, I was told by someone that they deliberately temper with the audio system to increase the number of rejections. He asked me the first question-"what univ. r u applying to" I named them. Then he asked me something I was not excepting - Y did u not apply to Harvard and why to University of southern Mississippi. Somehow i was able to convince him on the ground that Harvard requires a very high GRE score and also its too expensive to be afforded. Now the Q on which he bumped me out the Intv. was that how much U earn? RS15000. Then, how r u going to pay $37000 with a pay of $300. I was telling him how my parents have got the savings for my education. Immediately, he became very violent and asked me - but how r u going to pay for 37000 with a pay of 300. That time it came to my mind - You Idiot, if I am gonna be studying in US how am I gonna work here and pay for my education. I am a student and its natural that my parents are going to pay for it. Now, I regret that I didn't told him that. I repeated the 'rata-rataya ans' about the savings of my parents. As I was on the course of telling him the fundings I had. He said- I am not convinced, I am sorry I can't grant u a VISA.
Man if u r predetermined not to listen to me and are not going to give me a VISA why the hell r u asking me Qs. Just for the sake of protocol??? It's total BS.
There is no way u can change the mind of a VO unless he has got some idea to grant u a VISA.
I thought I would have handled it well coz I was predetermined. But it hit me so hard that I am getting night-mares of a VISA Intv. I wake up at night thinking of it. And till this day everything is very fuzzy and I am still not clear what happened..
Really
that day was a disaster. :(
