A Kenyan lady who applied for a US visa has come out to share the questions she was asked during her US Embassy Nairobi visa interview. In a video, the Kenyan lady known as Grace Yuge shared that she was asked three main questions during the interview. She had applied for the US tourist visa (B-1/B-2 visa).
“When you apply for the visa [and attend the visa interview at the Nairobi Embassy], they do not even want to look at the documents you are carrying,” she said, adding that the interviewing officer just asked for my passport, scanned it an got all my details. The officer then asked her three questions.
“The officer asked me the purpose of my visit and if the listed person was the one I was going to visit. I was then asked the countries I had visited. I listed among them Ethiopia. I was then asked where I worked. After answering, I was handed the pink paper!” she said.
At the US Embassy Nairobi, the pink slip indicates that your visa application has been rejected.
Ms Yuge said that the US consular officer did not ask for any of the documentations she was carrying. “They didn’t want to look at my documentation which included the invitation letter, employment letter, bank statement and so on,” she said.
She added that she had given the interview her best short. “I did not give one word answers. I would give an answer with a brief-to-the-point explanation. I wasn’t too brief and neither was I too lengthy in answering,” said Yuge.
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After getting the rejection slip, Yuge proceeded to ask someone from the embassy if she could appeal the rejection. She was asked to read the slip she had received from the consular officer and understand that the decision she had received could not be appealed.
“I read the slip and indeed, it declared that the decision could not be appealed,” she said. “I read and saw the declaration that ‘today’s decision cannot be appealed’,” she said.
