Some Responses Posted with Permission
Dear Dr Hojabri,
I went to the Kabul in Afghanistan, I remember we were 14 applicants and they accepted only 3 of us, and all 3 have received only single entry VISA.
The man who interviewed us was very impolite and although some had very good financial support but they were rejected!
Thank you
Ramin
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Hello Dear Professor Hojabri,
I was graduated from Sharif University of Technology and my major is Chemical Eng.
I’ve been admitted for fall semester, but because of delay in issuing visa, I missed the fall semester and also my scholarship from Texas Tech University.
After I sent a request to Texas Tech University for the spring semester and they gave me another I-20, I received single entry visa.
Fardin
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Dear Professor Hojabri:
I was interviewed at US consulate in Ashgabat(Turkmenistan) and I received multiple entry VISA.
All my friends and classmates that were interviewed there received single entry visa, and I was the only one among them who received multiple entry VISA.
Ali
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Dear Prof. Hojabri,
I do not know any Mechanical Engineering student who has been granted multi-entry visa. I know only very close relatives (a couple) who have received multi-entry visa last month. They are going to a medical school in the USA, and their education has been in an Iranian medical school. This couple told me that another doctor (of the same medical school) has not been granted multi-entry visa! You see that the pattern is quite abnormal.
My experience tells me that the Dubai post should not be recommended to applicants. I myself and many of our students had misadventures there. The existing difference between the procedures of various embassies is in contrast with the claims of the US department of state that they are practicing the same rules in all posts.
Best wishes,
Amir
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Dear Prof. Hojabri,
This is my visa experience.
I requested visa in US Consulate in Dubai in April 2010 and my clearance took 9 months so that I missed my admission from Columbia University. In June 2011, I applied again for US visa in Beirut with another admission from Stanford University and I was surprisingly cleared in 6 days. This time I got Multiple Entry visa.
I’m doing my PhD in Pure Mathematics at Stanford right now. Most of my friends doing Mathematics and Economics got Multiple Entry Visa, but majority of my friends doing Engineering got Single Entry.
Sincerely yours,
Omid
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Dear Dr. Hojabri:
I am doing my PhD in Industrial Engineering at University of Houston
and just a few days ago I came back to visit my family. Before coming
to Iran, I had an interview with US embassy in Dubai for my new US
visa. They approved me for visa and I am waiting for my FBI check. I
asked the interviewer about whether I will be considered for
multiple-entry visa and he said I will be issued Single-entry visa not
multiple. He mentioned they didn’t give any multiple-entry visa to
Engineering majors. Although my research was completely related to
mathematics and I had a letter showing my research is neither
technical nor critical and I don’t have any access to sensitive data,
he refused to give me the multiple-entry visa.I am really happy that you are conducting this research and I hope
that the result can help future students regarding they visa problem.MS: Sharif University of Technology.
BS: AmirKabir University of Technology
Best Regards,
Mohammadhossein
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Dear Professor Hojabri,
I received your e-mail regarding multiple-entry visas and I decided to share my problem with you hoping that you might be able to kindly let the right people know about it.
My wife and I are both Sharif graduates and we came to US to pursue our studies in 2004. Last Winter, I decided to visit my parents after five years and took the risk of traveling to Iran. I was interviewed in Dubai in March 2011 and it is now more than 9 months that I am waiting for a re-entry visa to go back to US and complete my PhD. My years of studies and research is at stake and I have not been able to see my wife, now a post-doc researcher, for 9 months. In response to my numerous queries they only say that my case is undergoing administrative processing and they refuse to provide any time when the processing will finish.
Officials in my University have followed up the issue with the assistance of a state senator with little success.
Sincerely,
Amir
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I finished my education at the University of Tehran in 2010. I got a single-entry visa summer 2010.
I had a trip to Iran this fall for personal-educational reasons. I went to Ankara to renew my visa and was hoping to get a multiple-entry this time but was given a single-entry again. The worst thing about single-entry visa is that you can’t actually attend seminars or workshop in Canada or Europe. Any trip would take a month at least. The financial burden of traveling to Turkey or Dubai for the visa is also remarkable.Thank you very much for your efforts.
Hossein
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My single entry visa issue date is Jul 17, 2011.
I also lost my father 2 weeks ago, but I couldn’t get back to Iran because I wasn’t sure about being able to get visa to come back.
Arya
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US visas Issued to all Countries
1997-2010
F-1 F-2 J-1 J-2 H-1A H-1B B-1 B-1,2 B-2 Asia Afghanistan 183 0 362 16 0 0 4 1,069 16 Bahrain 185 14 109 7 0 8 15 2,166 148 Bangladesh 798 149 284 81 0 158 57 7,363 22 Bhutan 42 8 30 10 0 1 0 168 1 Brunei 13 1 21 0 0 1 0 37 6 Burma 471 12 86 3 0 47 469 337 1,170 Cambodia 230 4 140 14 0 13 47 2,114 8 China – mainland born 113,772 2,682 27,711 7,113 0 11,242 358 498,714 9,896 China – Taiwan born 10,785 384 4,719 576 0 2,061 29 122,417 155 Hong Kong S.A.R. 2,631 30 1,295 38 0 331 3 32,480 3 India 25,783 1,346 5,993 1,916 0 58,664 1,722 294,120 2,345 Indonesia 1,891 115 1,261 217 0 748 591 28,402 110 Iran 1,761 256 353 244 0 137 642 7,049 7,929 Iraq 238 54 879 114 0 8 61 3,061 44 Israel 952 72 2,891 1,195 0 786 86 110,879 238 Japan 15,014 638 6,296 2,652 0 2,430 692 1,894 96 Jordan 764 168 847 189 0 211 428 10,567 64 Korea, North 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 0 Korea, South 44,328 6,281 10,402 5,836 0 3,656 231 15,861 112 Kuwait 1,536 200 91 26 0 6 0 13,587 7 Laos 33 0 61 3 0 1 23 1,008 4 Lebanon 412 13 641 63 0 295 81 13,531 54 Macau S.A.R. 169 0 63 0 0 21 0 1,019 1 Malaysia 2,052 94 1,078 114 0 648 582 26,464 732 Maldives 6 4 18 2 0 2 1 64 0 Mongolia 635 89 1,625 67 0 42 243 3,563 49 Nepal 1,389 197 326 101 0 488 129 5,671 55 Oman 183 26 118 14 0 7 12 1,042 418 Pakistan 972 121 1,356 345 0 693 138 22,252 162 Palestinian Authority Travel Document 146 14 316 60 0 21 107 2,855 11 Philippines 717 31 1,950 85 0 3,173 4,514 78,787 534 Qatar 505 68 50 14 0 0 7 2,942 3 Saudi Arabia 21,101 5,643 403 360 0 18 203 41,154 287 Singapore 1,723 94 1,318 146 0 483 61 428 10 Sri Lanka 615 93 160 50 0 236 102 5,788 54 Syria 232 14 221 80 0 76 43 7,115 42 Thailand 4,061 57 9,405 116 0 408 315 33,777 51 Timor-Leste 5 0 26 0 0 0 0 26 0 United Arab Emirates 1,043 190 70 10 0 2 18 7,084 12 Vietnam 8,681 107 1,794 144 0 305 88 30,811 780 Yemen 220 59 122 12 0 8 57 1,340 13 Totals for Asia 266,277 19,328 84,891 22,033 0 87,435 12,159 1,439,039 25,642 Europe Albania 390 8 275 3 0 75 7 5,521 9 Andorra 5 0 6 2 0 1 0 1 0 Armenia 121 11 341 32 0 47 13 3,385 14 Austria 748 12 2,030 77 0 169 83 768 4 Azerbaijan 438 37 996 34 0 38 14 2,640 8 Belarus 218 9 3,022 8 0 93 64 5,642 285 Belgium 981 16 1,156 113 0 167 78 813 19 Bosnia and Herzegovina 180 3 322 7 0 33 11 4,914 49 Bulgaria 512 7 5,218 29 0 376 52 10,960 480 Croatia 323 1 617 21 0 78 120 9,844 450 Cyprus 201 0 150 6 0 53 5 4,229 456 Czech Republic 580 3 2,496 84 0 119 75 2,005 153 Denmark 1,027 38 2,127 202 0 157 112 1,233 14 Estonia 86 2 709 11 0 16 9 210 1 Finland 435 9 1,268 176 0 101 88 303 61 France 6,027 101 12,424 844 0 1,951 253 4,684 120 Georgia 346 16 534 23 0 51 50 2,533 75 Germany 7,243 91 23,123 826 0 1,639 308 6,851 74 Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,380 101 16,142 416 0 3,553 1,762 17,148 257 Greece 832 15 656 84 0 293 15 14,997 35 Hungary 377 14 1,754 161 0 150 96 749 18 Iceland 197 47 182 56 0 42 7 212 2 Ireland 572 7 7,361 101 0 616 127 1,574 20 Italy 3,709 61 5,431 329 0 1,068 182 4,025 59 Kazakhstan 1,575 62 4,202 53 0 61 12 6,780 743 Kosovo 95 0 388 5 0 16 4 2,617 31 Kyrgyzstan 180 10 978 34 0 29 2 1,527 4 Latvia 207 4 246 4 0 38 4 379 114 Liechtenstein 16 0 8 2 0 0 1 15 0 Lithuania 213 4 1,292 11 0 92 13 377 0 Luxembourg 53 1 38 1 0 2 3 35 2 Macedonia 103 2 1,824 17 0 31 34 3,076 102 Malta 5 0 29 2 0 7 1 98 1 Moldova 255 9 4,446 18 0 71 6 3,149 21 Monaco 9 0 6 0 0 0 0 4 0 Montenegro 85 1 234 3 0 10 3 1,821 10 Netherlands 1,412 23 2,922 180 0 405 90 1,829 12 Norway 1,792 33 2,216 223 0 95 675 1,396 109 Poland 822 18 3,851 178 0 379 685 63,624 73 Portugal 558 25 711 58 0 187 137 763 52 Romania 449 33 3,060 75 0 415 310 20,907 120 Russia 4,505 162 25,118 247 0 692 281 120,017 402 San Marino 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 Serbia 643 15 2,341 18 0 212 12 10,263 21 Serbia and Montenegro 11 0 28 2 0 22 3 830 8 Slovakia 380 4 2,250 33 0 101 18 742 1 Slovenia 80 1 187 11 0 17 114 70 0 Spain 4,306 115 5,589 599 0 809 520 2,833 99 Sweden 2,482 17 3,068 255 0 320 264 896 172 Switzerland 3,499 32 1,518 142 0 234 121 4,035 65 Tajikistan 275 7 645 37 0 13 1 638 9 Turkey 6,501 340 10,498 681 0 1,421 104 51,000 193 Turkmenistan 119 10 334 6 0 20 22 473 16 Ukraine 766 46 11,144 88 0 292 154 20,356 787 Uzbekistan 227 29 517 25 0 64 8 4,289 12 Vatican City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 Totals for Europe 61,553 1,612 178,031 6,653 0 16,941 7,133 430,092 5,842 North America Antigua and Barbuda 69 0 14 0 0 12 5 1,915 512 Bahamas, The 1,038 21 44 7 0 140 10 10,675 6 Barbados 150 5 53 2 0 51 9 7,541 1,580 Belize 119 2 43 3 0 27 15 3,543 5 Canada 180 11 65 32 0 39 10 128 2 Costa Rica 447 17 444 36 0 150 28 40,914 31 Cuba 23 0 33 2 0 2 827 2,351 18,745 Dominica 94 0 13 0 0 27 16 1,389 256 Dominican Republic 632 12 836 32 0 145 1,305 56,411 3,079 El Salvador 318 2 235 15 0 78 1,112 17,993 4,373 Grenada 90 5 21 2 0 35 2 1,989 349 Guatemala 407 14 305 22 0 70 269 46,021 85 Haiti 432 10 161 6 0 22 134 20,593 190 Honduras 475 15 147 12 0 89 196 21,539 5,495 Jamaica 1,046 51 3,507 26 0 386 123 31,145 64 Mexico 7,158 649 6,322 477 0 2,494 5,150 14,546 3,079 Nicaragua 167 7 191 8 0 49 416 10,376 35 Panama 541 6 295 8 0 114 403 22,766 37 Saint Kitts and Nevis 95 7 9 1 0 14 37 1,321 330 Saint Lucia 184 2 20 2 0 16 38 2,889 534 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 39 3 9 3 0 12 25 1,741 298 Trinidad and Tobago 576 8 141 23 0 259 18 21,446 31 Totals for North America 14,280 847 12,908 719 0 4,231 10,148 339,232 39,116 Oceania Australia 1,737 85 5,163 276 0 495 116 8,282 46 Fiji 30 3 16 3 0 6 16 2,540 39 Kiribati 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 33 1 Marshall Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 40 1 Micronesia, Federated States of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Nauru 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 0 New Zealand 406 18 1,544 81 0 255 138 2,006 121 Palau 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 Papua New Guinea 27 1 25 1 0 0 3 502 9 Samoa 6 0 14 0 0 0 29 423 85 Solomon Islands 5 1 4 0 0 0 1 65 1 Tongo 11 0 35 10 0 0 5 668 59 Tuvalu 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 13 0 Vanuatu 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 22 0 Totals for Oceania 2,223 108 6,819 371 0 756 310 14,618 362 South America Argentina 1,103 79 3,369 188 0 727 191 136,283 183 Bolivia 382 12 337 14 0 110 193 13,469 106 Brazil 10,532 395 12,403 858 0 1,613 2,052 241,308 262,357 Chile 1,263 283 2,395 344 0 255 375 40,630 373 Colombia 4,075 202 4,141 309 0 1,114 2,268 139,403 480 Ecuador 1,004 44 1,931 80 0 231 307 53,157 73 Guyana 70 2 15 1 0 36 28 4,362 164 Paraguay 215 8 351 12 0 36 138 4,934 166 Peru 1,062 53 3,669 70 0 539 1,841 38,173 10,426 Suriname 25 0 18 0 0 5 6 2,528 -6 Uruguay 153 11 227 22 0 68 329 11,288 2,655 Venezuela 3,966 244 548 71 0 911 2,543 150,946 314 Totals for South America 23,850 1,333 29,404 1,969 0 5,645 10,271 836,481 277,291 Africa Algeria 113 2 189 14 0 15 992 4,246 201 Angola 538 22 39 5 0 12 238 2,473 562 Benin 164 3 29 2 0 10 43 1,062 119 Botswana 70 6 85 0 0 7 4 767 6 Burkina Faso 420 7 62 1 0 15 5 1,101 6 Burundi 78 1 9 1 0 4 3 492 5 Cameroon 848 36 156 21 0 79 12 5,814 30 Cape Verde 29 0 17 0 0 0 2 1,436 22 Central African Republic 29 0 3 0 0 0 0 124 0 Chad 28 0 30 5 0 7 1 266 1 Comoros 5 1 3 0 0 0 1 19 2 Congo (Congo Brazzaville) 108 0 17 4 0 2 9 987 28 Congo, Dem. Rep. of the (Congo Kinshasa) 228 3 53 17 0 14 31 2,204 34 Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 337 4 81 8 0 34 70 1,959 12 Djibouti 6 0 11 0 0 0 16 367 1 Egypt 861 182 1,295 402 0 228 155 27,589 50 Equatorial Guinea 110 4 9 0 0 0 4 400 1 Eritrea 83 1 6 0 0 3 107 383 13 Ethiopia 674 67 93 20 0 42 122 6,404 45 Gabon 184 0 16 2 0 6 2 681 76 Gambia, The 350 0 23 1 0 2 51 1,900 40 Ghana 760 83 638 27 0 219 30 10,444 38 Guinea 33 0 19 0 0 2 49 811 19 Guinea-Bissau 3 0 7 2 0 0 1 59 10 Kenya 1,184 39 364 44 0 259 147 11,592 301 Lesotho 8 0 18 0 0 4 19 156 0 Liberia 66 0 76 0 0 5 14 1,136 20 Libya 1,352 1,129 213 95 0 5 4 2,624 12 Madagascar 44 3 38 7 0 13 9 658 1 Malawi 51 14 51 0 0 9 129 465 16 Mali 328 5 90 15 0 14 180 1,286 427 Mauritania 41 1 46 3 0 2 2 799 0 Mauritius 58 2 33 4 0 26 4 1,331 134 Morocco 682 6 473 29 0 68 87 13,014 26 Mozambique 38 1 75 1 0 1 8 695 2 Namibia 30 0 53 0 0 6 1 642 1 Niger 89 1 44 4 0 8 39 548 19 Nigeria 3,635 227 708 84 0 517 667 47,065 6,483 Rwanda 314 6 84 10 0 10 253 422 188 Sao Tome and Principe 3 0 7 0 0 1 1 23 1 Senegal 307 7 195 11 0 54 45 3,347 36 Seychelles 1 0 4 0 0 2 8 106 5 Sierra Leone 35 8 40 5 0 6 54 1,192 83 Somalia 9 0 10 0 0 0 0 77 1 South Africa 675 36 2,232 72 0 397 161 39,959 89 Sudan 126 9 56 20 0 13 265 1,799 292 Swaziland 42 0 18 3 0 2 1 280 3 Tanzania 479 21 175 10 0 69 47 3,864 12 Togo 75 0 37 6 0 15 6 813 11 Tunisia 232 4 214 21 0 28 30 3,650 8 Uganda 432 19 198 33 0 32 21 2,788 129 Zambia 151 15 84 18 0 22 7 1,634 141 Zimbabwe 386 10 166 13 0 92 6 3,102 52 Totals for Africa 16,932 1,985 8,692 1,040 0 2,381 4,163 217,055 9,814 Unknown No Nationality 95 7 60 12 0 20 13 2,265 20 United Nations Laissez-Passer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals for Unknown 95 7 60 12 0 20 13 2,265 20 Grand Totals 385,210 25,220 320,805 32,797 0 117,409 44,197 3,278,782 358,087
Dear Professor Hojabri,
Thank you for your efferts.
I had my visa interview in the Nicosia (Cyprus) in 31th May 2011 and I recived a single entry visa. My major is Electrical engineering. I got my BSc from Sharif University and my MSc from Polytechnic.
Best regards,
Zahra
Dear Professor Hojabri,
I am going to study master of architecture at university of Massachusetts Amherst beginning Jan 23rd, i had to defer a semester because I received a reclear process.
unfortunately i have lost lots of time and money by traveling to Dubai to pick up my visa but they told me that i have to wait to be recleared.
My interview was conducted on June 27th in Dubai, and my multiple visa was issued on Oct 27th.
many thanks,
MaryaM
Dear Professor Hojabri,
Thank you for your all supports,
Just wanted to mention this visa was my first US Visa.
Happy new year,
Zahra Ghanian
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