Requesting U.S. visa

Requesting U.S. visa

Is America closed for young tourists from Indonesia? That is
what I am wondering.

My niece applied for a tourist visa to visit the States. The
trip was offered by a family member (who is working outside
Indonesia and wishes to accompany her) for her successful
completion of a four-year university course (Diploma has not been
received).

When will this kind of opportunity ever come again? She
completed all the required information, paid Rp 540,000 and to
our surprise was denied a tourist visa because she is young, a
student and still looking for a job.

To check that these were the real reasons for the American
Embassy to reject young tourists, I personally called the embassy
and spoke to the man in charge. He gave the same reasons for the
rejection.

I told him if she had known those reasons beforehand she would
not have submitted the application form and wasted her time and
such a large amount of money.

She has a nice family, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends to
come home to and I wonder if Americans only return home because
they have a job.

ELLY N

Tangerang, West Java