F1-Visa is a type of non-immigrant visa provided by the US Government to allow students to temporarily live in the US for a defined period of time while studying at a school. It is the 3rd most applied visa in the whole world. For many students, it is the culmination of years of hard work and dedication.
After appearing for TOEFL/IELTS, GRE and applying for schools of interest, and getting an admit, attending the Visa Interview is the next step, which arguably is also the toughest. It is a subjective process, where a Visa officer asks a serious of question to the prospective student and arrives at a conclusion deeming his fitness.
An example for the denial could be,
- Signs of family ties already present in the US (makes a student highly unlikely to return back to home country)
- Lack of funds for education
- No ties between experience and the major chosen
- Questionable universities and academic performances
The data comes from a telegram channel and all the visa experiences mainly are from India. I am working on adding more sources. So watch out!
Dataset is hosted here, https://www.kaggle.com/adiamaan/f1-visa-experiences
The scrapper is scheduled to run every day at 8 AM using a Github Action workflow.
A huge thanks to the mods of the Telegram channel, t.me/f1interviewreviews for moderating the community and pushing out new experiences frequently.
The dataset contains the following columns,
| Syntax | Description |
|---|---|
| msg_id | Message Unique ID |
| date | Date the message was posted. Not necessarily the interview date |
| message | Message detailing the visa interview experience of a student, usually in a chat format between the Visa interviewer and the student |
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