Ohene Consult / Visa preparation
$500 · Preparation & interview coachingYou have the offer.
Now the hard part.
A student visa interview at the US Embassy in Accra lasts about three minutes. People who have spent a year building a perfect application lose it in those three minutes, almost always for reasons nobody warned them about.
What is actually being assessed
The officer is answering three questions, not reading your file.
They are deciding whether you are a genuine student, whether your funding is real and sustainable for the whole programme, and whether you intend to return. Everything you say is weighed against those three, and nothing else.
Most refusals are issued under section 214(b), which means the applicant did not overcome the presumption that they intend to immigrate. It is not a judgement on your grades or your character. It usually means your answers did not hang together as one coherent story.
That story is preparable. It is not coachable in the sense of memorising answers, and anyone selling you a script is setting you up to fail. It is buildable, from facts that are already true about you.
Where people lose it
- Funding that does not add up across the full programme, only year one
- Money that appeared in the account three weeks ago with no explanation
- A sponsor whose income cannot plausibly support the amount shown
- No convincing answer to why this course, at this school, over one at home
- Rehearsed answers that collapse the moment a follow-up question comes
- Saying something that contradicts what is on the DS-160
- Talking about staying, working, or family already in the United States, without care
What you get
Six things, over about two weeks.
A document checklist for your exact category
F-1, J-1 or otherwise. What is required, what helps, what to leave at home, and what order to carry it in.
Financial documentation reviewed before you submit
The single most common failure point. We look at what you are planning to show and tell you honestly whether it will hold up.
Your forms checked line by line
You complete and submit your own DS-160 and pay your own SEVIS fee, in your own name. We review what you have entered before you lock it.
A mock interview, run properly
Real consular questioning, at real pace, with the follow-ups that catch people out. Recorded so you can hear yourself.
Your intent and ties, worked out honestly
Not a script. The genuine reasons you plan to return, found and sharpened until you can say them without hesitating.
What to do if you are refused
A 214(b) refusal is not permanent and it is not a ban. We cover what changes before you reapply, and when reapplying is a bad idea.
Where we stop
We prepare you. You file.
This distinction is not a formality and it is not us being cautious. It protects you, and it is the law working as intended.
- We do not submit your visa application. Your DS-160 is completed and submitted by you, in your own name, under your own signature.
- We do not provide legal or immigration advice. We are not a law firm. Questions about eligibility, waivers or status are legal questions and we refer them to a qualified attorney.
- We do not attend your interview. Nobody can, and anyone offering to is describing something that does not exist.
- We do not fabricate documents or coach you to mislead an officer. Ever. Misrepresentation at a consular interview carries a permanent inadmissibility finding.
- We do not guarantee approval. The decision belongs entirely to the consular officer.
Included free
If we ran your application, this is already yours.
Visa preparation is built into every Comprehensive and Funded PhD campaign, and into the J-1 teacher pathway. The $500 fee is for people who applied on their own, or through someone else, and now face the interview without support.
Visa approved, first attempt
“The visa preparation was thorough and clear. He walked me through every document, prepared me for every question, and gave me the confidence to walk into that interview knowing I was ready. First attempt. Approved.”
A registered nurse in New York
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Do not walk into that interview cold.
Three minutes decides a year of work. Book preparation and go in knowing exactly what is being asked of you and why.