什么签证面试?
在移民签证申请过程中,申请人需要前往美国使领馆接受非公民事务官的面谈(Interview)。面谈时,申请者会被要求详细地阐述自己的背景、赴美目的以及经济担保等细节,以证明自己符合移民局对移民签证的要求。 由于面谈结果对于能否获得移民签证有决定性的作用,因此所有申请者都需要高度重视。
一般而言,被通知面谈的申请人会先收到一张带有预约面谈时间的纸头,上面还会写明您应该携带哪些文件。如果您的面谈日期较远的,请您不要误了预约时间;如果您的面谈时间很近,那么就要做好充分的准备并提前到领事馆排队报到。
虽然移民法的条文很简略,但是面谈时会涉及大量的材料,并且这些问题都极为专业与复杂。因此建议大家最好找一位专业的律师来辅导面谈。 在北京、上海和广州的美领馆中,非公民事务办公室的门口通常都会张贴一些提示,指导申请者如何准备面谈(一般只有英文)。比如以下这些例子——
1. Why did you decide to apply for this visa? (为什么你要申请这个签证呢?) 对于绝大多数的申请者而言,答案不外乎是:因为您在美国有亲属或朋友、您打算永久居留美国或者暂时来美国工作、学习和生活而已。不过如果移民官觉得你的理由不够充分的话,就有可能会让你提供更多的证据支持这一说法。
2. Please show me your family relationship with the sponsor on a photo of an example. Is it a photo of you and that person? If not, how do you know them as a parent/son/daughter etc? Do they have other children or are those pictures taken just in case? What else is going on behind these photos? For some applicants, we may ask more about their background or life experience rather than focus only on the formal documents they provide. So please be fully prepared before visit us. (请出示你和担保人的家庭合影照片给我们看。这是你和你父母的合照吗?如果不是,你是怎么知道他们是自己父母还是临时拍的照片以便留作纪念的呢?他们还有其他子女的吗?除了这些照片外他们还拍了什么其他的照片?有些申请人的资料比较丰富齐全,所以我们对他们的了解就比较多了。因此希望所有的申请人都能准备好充足的材料向我们证明自己所言不虚。 )
3. When would you leave China? Where will you live while waiting the result? During the wait period, what kind of activities can you engage yourself into? Would you like to work? How much earnings do you expect to earn during one year? (你觉得什么时候能够离开中国呢?在你拿到签证前的这段时间内你想住在什么地方呢?在这段时间里你可以做些什么呢?可以工作吗?你能预期一年赚多少钱呢?)
4. We usually check all supporting materials carefully, even though they might seem perfect from our point of view. But when we find something seems suspicious, then there must be problem! Even if such evidence is small, but its significance could lead us to make conclusion whether your application meets legal requirements. Therefore, whatever kinds of document you submit to us should be legally valid documents! And I strongly recommend each applicant to keep everything including bank statement, letter of employment, marriage certificate etc.