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Application Tips

Please Remember


Important things to remember when filling out application forms:

  • Respond to all the questions. If you have no response for a question, put "none" or "nil." Do not draw a line.
  • You must provide specific contact and address information both in India and the United States. Applications with responses such as "any hotel" as the address in the U.S. will be rejected for additional information.
  • You must sign the application, even if someone else fills it out.
  • You are responsible and accountable for the answers on your application forms, regardless of who fills out the forms.
  • When applying for a tourist or business visitor's visa, you should also bring documents that you think will help establish your financial ability to travel, your business connections either in India or the US, and other social or economic ties which will serve to compel your return to India after a limited visit to the United States. Please refer to specific documentary requirements for students, exchange visitors, temporary works and other specific types of visas.
  • Due to security concerns and space limitations, you cannot bring into the building friends, relatives or business contacts. If any such party wishes to present facts to the Embassy concerning a particular visa case, they are encouraged to supply this information directly to the applicant, which that person can then bring in.
  • Submit only valid documents. Fraud or misrepresentation can result in permanent ineligibility for a non-immigrant visa.  

Warning

“Fraud can result in permanent ineligibility for a non-immigrant visa.” 

The Consul General