Hello Everybody, wow, it seems we are all victims of rude and inconsiderate treatment by consular officers who often act as if they are God and don't mine calling us liars. Some of your situations are similar as mine.... I live in another country and I married a wonderful caring lady. She loves her country and she has family there and has no desire to leave and come live with me in USA. I was born here and am an American citizen. My family has not met her and my elderly Auntie (98) was failing in her health. I wanted my wife to meet her before she died and to meet the rest of my family, sisters, brothers, children and grandchildren. Our plan is to live in her country and occassionally visit my family as a vacation. Well, she applied for a non immigrant visa (tourist visa) just to visit my family.
Together we prepared the documents on the website's list to prove that she is grounded in her country and has reason to return and not stay illegally in the USA. The deed to her own house, her children's birth certificates, our marriage certificate, her pension (she is retired), her local bank account, and she has a stamp in her passport from an Asian country where we went on our honeymoon. I added to the documents a letter explaining about my family and my Aunt's failing health. About our plans to live in her country and not in USA. Copies of my passport and residency permit as well as my certified documents of my company that I pay taxes on. I also included Messenger messages from my cousins describing my Aunt's condition and wishing us good luck to get the tourist visa. When my wife went in to the interview, they did not let me go with her. She gave the file of documents to the counselor officer and all he did was to pull out the marriage certificate. He said, you are married you need to apply for the immigrant visa. She told him we were only going for 2 months and she was not going to live in USA that we were going to live in her country. He denied her tourist visa and gave her the form letter of the denial. Saying she did not meet the requirements to prove she would return to her country or she filed the wrong immigration visa application. She said that he was rude to her, his language ability was not good and she did not think that he understood her as she doesn't speak English.
Of course I was very upset as this was the second time she applied, once before marriage and paid the fees twice. I went into the Embassy and had an appointment for Citizen Services. As soon as I mentioned my wife's denied visa, the person refused to speak to me about it. I asked to escalate to someone higher and gave her my letter that had been in the file. I told her the officer had not even looked at any of the documents but based his denial on our marriage certificate. She said, you are welcome to apply again. I replied For What!!!! I need to make a formal complaint.