{"id":1040941,"date":"2026-10-05T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040941"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:23:43","slug":"green-card-holders-mother-denied-b1-b2-visa-to-attend-housewarming-ceremony-they-did-not-ask-for-any-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/green-card-holders-mother-denied-b1-b2-visa-to-attend-housewarming-ceremony-they-did-not-ask-for-any-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Card holder&#8217;s mother denied B1\/B2 visa to attend housewarming ceremony: They did not ask for any documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian woman with US Green Card shared the experience of a B1\/B2 visa interview at Mumbai Consulate attended by her mother which ended in a flat refusal. As the woman shared her mother&#8217;s interview experience, seeking advice on what they did wrong, it emerged as an interesting case to study for B1\/B2 visa applicants, as the denial rates in India are quite high. Whenever visa officers don&#8217;t find strong ties of the applicants with India, they deny visa detecting &#8220;immigration intent&#8221; which means that they suspect that the applicants may not return to India.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, as specified by the Reddit post, the visa officer asked the mother, a widow staying in India with her son while the daughter is a US Green Card holder with a US citizen spouse, the purpose of her visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian woman with US Green Card shared the experience of a B1\/B2 visa interview at Mumbai Consulate attended by her mother which ended in a flat refusal. As the woman shared her mother&#8217;s interview experience, seeking advice on what they did wrong, it emerged as an interesting case to study for B1\/B2 visa applicants, as the denial rates in India are quite high. Whenever visa officers don&#8217;t find strong ties of the applicants with India, they deny visa detecting &#8220;immigration intent&#8221; which means that they suspect that the applicants may not return to India. In this case, as specified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040942,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040941\/revisions\/1040942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}