Hello, I am asking on behalf of my partner, Ukrainian national. We both live in EU (France if it is any important).
We both want to travel to USA for a vacation. I am an American, my boyfriend is Ukrainian and must apply for visitor B visa as visa-waiver access is only for EU citizens. I understand the visa application is a rather complicated thing. There are some facts about him:
He has a steady long-term job in EU along with some assets and real-estate here and in Ukraine. He is also a holder of long-term residence EU visa. Never been to America. Some aunt or uncle from his family emigrated to USA illegally in past.
Now, There are many unanswered questions I have:
1) Can he apply for a tourist B visa in EU (outside his home country)?
2) Can we both travel from Schengen to USA nowadays? I know there is a restriction, one must be 14 days outside of Schengen in order to fly to USA but there may be some exceptions and waivers.
3) What is a typical turnaround timeframe from B visa?
4) Should I be involved in the process? I don't know if I can somehow help or hinder his application.
5) How likely is he to get it? I know there might be double standards for different nationalities.
I would like to make this application bulletproof and I want to know whether we realistically do have chance to get that visa for him. We only wanna go for 2 week vacation so I am trying to evaluate whether this process is worth it.
We both want to travel to USA for a vacation. I am an American, my boyfriend is Ukrainian and must apply for visitor B visa as visa-waiver access is only for EU citizens. I understand the visa application is a rather complicated thing. There are some facts about him:
He has a steady long-term job in EU along with some assets and real-estate here and in Ukraine. He is also a holder of long-term residence EU visa. Never been to America. Some aunt or uncle from his family emigrated to USA illegally in past.
Now, There are many unanswered questions I have:
1) Can he apply for a tourist B visa in EU (outside his home country)?
2) Can we both travel from Schengen to USA nowadays? I know there is a restriction, one must be 14 days outside of Schengen in order to fly to USA but there may be some exceptions and waivers.
3) What is a typical turnaround timeframe from B visa?
4) Should I be involved in the process? I don't know if I can somehow help or hinder his application.
5) How likely is he to get it? I know there might be double standards for different nationalities.
I would like to make this application bulletproof and I want to know whether we realistically do have chance to get that visa for him. We only wanna go for 2 week vacation so I am trying to evaluate whether this process is worth it.
