In this guide, we will learn specific things that you must do for you to have a smooth and successful first DV interview and get your Diversity Visa approved.
It will focus mainly on the tips that you can use in preparation for the interview and also during the interview process to get your Diversity Visa approved.
As a first timer in the DV lottery interview or it’s your first time to attend the DV interview, there is a great tendency of panicking or missing some things in the preparation or during the interview.
Tips To Prepare For DV First Interview
- You need to familiarize yourself with the whole interview process.
You’re going for the interview, just as the other normal interviews, the work interviews, or any other interview, you need prior preparation, you need to familiarize yourself with what it takes for the interview.
How do you do this?
You do this by simply consulting the previous interviews. Those people that have undergone through the interviews, and how do you consult with those interviews?
It is by going through the interview experiences. People are very generous with their information. Many that have gone to the United States, many that have passed through the DV interview, they have shared their interview experiences all over the internet and they are all different experiences.
You’ll find some for single persons, you’ll find some for married people, you’ll find some for married with kids, and others single with kids. When you go through those interview experiences, you’ll learn a lot of things. For example:
- You’ll know what happens during the interview.
- You’ll know what changes you can make during the interview.
- You’ll know what people to meet at the embassy.
- You’ll know what happens at the security check.
- You’ll know what size of baggage you should carry.
- You’ll know of the questions that you get during the interview, and you’ll know how to correctly go around those processes.
You need to go through the interview experiences.
Read: DV Interview Questions and Answers
Go through it, you’ll get to familiarize yourself with the whole process, and this will eliminate the panic that comes.
In other words, you will have gone through a mock interview. It’s like you’ve gone through a virtual tour of the whole interview process, and when you go for the interview, you’ll find yourself that whatever you’re meeting or encountering will be what you already know of.
So it’s very important to go through the DV interviews for you to get all this information. Go through the different interview experiences from those people.
- You need to prepare the documents that are required correctly and they should be organized correctly.
The documents form the very important part of the DV interview because you’ll have to present those documents. What are those documents?
They are the supporting documents to the information that you field on your DS-260 form. Every document that is required, you need to have it.
Remember, there are some documents that need to be notarized. That is to certify them. They need a certified copy of the original one. So you have the original copy and a different one that is called certified.
READ: Original And Notarized Documents For DV Lottery Interview
You will get this certified from the custodian of your documents in your government. If it’s the birth certificate from the registrar of birth, for the marriage certificate from the registrar of marriage, etc.
For those documents that are listed as requiring certified documents, don’t forget to get the certified documents. Prepare your documents well, both you as a principal applicant and those of your derivatives, for a smooth interview.
- Throughout the process, you have to be so honest.
Be honest with all information that you give. Be truthful. If you say yes, it’s a yes, and if it’s no, it’s a no.
If you don’t have these documents, don’t say you have them. Anything that you present should be true from the start to the end. Veracity is key. Lies are considered as fraud.
The principal item that will lead to your visa denial is for you speaking falsely, is for you presenting false information. That is fraud, and fraud is a definite visa refusal. So honest and truthful is what is needed in this process for a smooth interview.
- You need to stay calm and be self-composed during the interview.
Fear can arise, the fear of unknown, not knowing whether you’ll be successful or you will fail and that can create anxiety. Fear can cause you not to be at ease.
Therefore, one thing that you need to do and you need to exercise is to be calm and to be self-composed. By this, you’ll have the confidence to answer the questions that are forwarded to you.
You create this confidence and calmness by going through the interview experiences for you to at least have the prior information of the process. Panicking can mess you up, be self-composed and calm when you are going through your DV interview.
- You need to attend the interview with all your derivatives.
Derivatives must be present during the interview, if you leave the derivatives out then be sure you will not get your visa. All people that you included in your DV application as your family members (your spouse, your biological children, legally adopted children, stepchildren) you need to attend the interview with them, and they must be present there.
They should also have all the documents that they are required to have, e.g birth certificate, their passports, the police clearance certificate for all that are above 16 years of age. Every document that is attached to the derivatives must also be present.
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