Profile Details:
University: Santa Clara University
Course: MS in Robotics
First Attempt
Mumbai Consulate
Date: December 2015
Status: Approved
Counter No: 36
Visa Interview Experience:
Then more 15 minute on finger print check and all that.
Then see one officer with bald and glasses rejects 4 F-1 visa within 15 seconds, And feeling tensed.
ME: Good Morning Ma’am, How are you doing today?
VO: No reply.
VO: Pass your passport and i20.
ME: Passed.
VO: Santa Clara University?
ME: Sorry Ma’am, Can you please.
VO: Santa Clara University?
ME: (Again can't understand) Sorry ma’am, I can not hear you. (Feeling tensed)
Then she adjust he mike and speak again.
VO: Tell me about SCU?
ME: It one of the oldest in California and etc.
VO: What you going to study there?
ME: Robotics.
VO: Have you taken a GRE?
ME: Yes ma’am.
VO: Which is going to be toughest subject for you?
ME: Guidance and control.
VO: Why?
ME: It is very complicated with long circuits and all that.
VO: Ok I'm approving your VISA.
Conclusion: Be confident and ask many times if you don't understand because wrong answer will harm very badly. And I think some time university also matters.
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