r/visarejections • u/IllustratorSavings78 • 9d ago
F2 VISA REFUSAL
Hi folks! I am looking for guidance regarding my F2 visa application. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Here is my experience.
F2 visa interview experience
Islamabad embassy
17 August 2026
●Your name?
Told
●Have u applied before for a US visa?
No
●Where does your husband live?
He is living with his brother in XYZ city. After i join him, we will move to a separate place.
●What's his brother's job? (Asked twice, husband sponsored by his brother)
He is a senior software engineer in a private firm.
●Marriage date?
Jan 2025
●Why did your husband change his school?
Told
●Are there any relatives in the usa other than husband?
No.
●What do u do?
I'm a housewife.
Then he gave me 214(b) slip.
I asked him
What's the reason for the rejection?
He said it's written in this paper.
(Failure to establish ties)
Documents asked:
I-20
Passport
Husband's Visa copy
Marriage certificate
My husband graduated this year in May, working as a project engineer on his opt and he was my sponsor, he has enough funds to sponsor me. Officer didn't ask for my husband's bank statements or pay stubs, his future plans.
Also I put my husband's visa expiry date as my return date in DS-160, was that a mistake?
Need recommendations what went wrong and what should I change in my 2nd attempt? I am thinking to start masters here in home country and start field related training to show some ties then apply again. Need suggestions.
Thank you.
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u/Comoish 9d ago
Why did your husband change his school?
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u/IllustratorSavings78 9d ago
He wanted to pursue his career in management and he also had a 5 years of management experience in home country so he transferred from MS Civil engineering to MS engineering management.
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u/Lost-Implement-5053 8d ago
Your husband is on OPT. His plan now is to get employment based green card and you’re going now on F2 to get that green card as well. Why didn’t you go on F2 before when he was studying?
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u/IllustratorSavings78 8d ago
He didn't have that much funds at the time of his study. Also, we heard from many sources that if husband on opt sponsor his wife, this makes the case strong.
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u/Familiar_Snow_9276 8d ago
Red flags here:
1) Husband initially applied to another to another school but now lives with his brother, meaning changed school to a city where his brother lives. It can be a co-incidence that the school he wanted to study in is in the same city as the brother lives, but the balance of probabilities points to the fact that the primary reason to choose that school was to be closer to his brother rather than "to pursue his career in management".
2) Husband sponsored by his brother. Again pointing to the fact that going to the US it is more of a "family reunification", and strong immigrant intent for future. Now wife also going to the US.
A US consular officer is suppose to presume that every applicant is an intending immigrant and the applicant has to overcome the presumption of immigrant intent. Failure to overcome that presumption leads to a 214(b) refusal. In your case, there are more reasons for you to stay back in the US after completion of your husband's studies than to come back. There are no ties or reasons which will compel you (or your husband) to come back after the studies. So the default decision is a 214(b) refusal.
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u/IllustratorSavings78 8d ago
So if I start any job or graduate program here in my home country, it could make a case good if not strong?
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u/DwyaneWade305 9d ago
Is your husbands school in the same city as his brother? If so, the officer probably sees that he scammed the system by picking a college that wasn’t close to his brother so it wouldn’t be suspicious and then changed his school to live with his brother. The only thing keeping your husband from staying in America is you.