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KOCHI: : Candour and honesty speak more than a pile of documents. Often applicants speak not the fact as it is. They stand a sure chance of rejection — this is what Michael D. Thomas, Chief of Consular Section, American Consulate, Chennai, had to tell visa aspirants to the U.S. "This is because many documents, particularly financial statements that visa aspirants show us, are fraudulent. Applicants who repeat cliched answers and have a difference in body language and talk when some questions are answered, will not make it to the U.S. A clear intention to return to India is another pre-requisite," he said. Mr. Thomas was speaking at an interactive session organised on Friday evening by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (Kerala). Among the other vital things that he pointed out included entering correct information in the application form, consistency in documents, specific address of where the applicant will be put up in the U.S. and details regarding purpose of visit. "The name given in the passport and the application must match, letter by letter. The handwriting has to be legible. Applicants can even use the online facility to apply (chennai.usconsulate.gov). Above all, they must practise for the visa interview. The visa officer forms an opinion of the applicant within seconds of seeing him," he said. Thus, there is no guarantee of an U.S. visa even if all the documents produced are genuine. As for the remedy for rejection of the application, he said that one could make a fresh application. Coming to numbers, he said that last year (2004), 6.11 lakh Indians went to the U.S., which is 13 per cent higher than that in 2003. The number of flights to the U.S. from India too has increased considerably. Indians constitute the second largest illegal-immigrant community in the U.S. Most of them had gone on tourist visa, Mr. Thomas said.
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