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How can you get a cruise job (kitchen) if you're in the Philippines?

What are the chances of getting approved for a tourist visa if I already have a C1/D visa?

  • Early this year, I have been issued a C1/D visa because I applied for a work in cruise ship as an aesthetic doctor. 3 weeks later after I aboard the ship, I realized that the job is not for me and I wanted to work here instead and be with my family. So I went home and get back to work. Since I'm a doctor, I didnt have any difficulties looking for a stable job and my family here is supportive. Now, I plan to visit the US to visit my relatives there which i wasn't able to do when I was in Miami. I have to get a tourist visa of course. What are my chances of getting approved for a tourist visa if I have a C1/D visa that will about to expire in 2015? As you can see, I quit my job on the ship so meaning i have no intentions of looking for work there. I just wanna go to the US for mere leisure and pleasure. my parents are both tourist visa holders. I am still single, i have a job here and i can say that i have no reasons of abandoning my life in the Philippines because if I have, I could have just jumped off the ship or stayed in Miami. I still have the I-95, which was a piece of paper being issued by the US Immigration at the cruise ship. It's like a ticket so we can travel to US territories during embarkation. Please help. Do i have a big chance of getting approved? Thanks.

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    Go to the US consulate to get your C1 cancelled and get a B-2 tourist visa instead

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A couple of basics, then my opinion. (Remember, nothing you hear here is 100% valid- just someone's opinion.) You get issued a visa for a reason. Someone satisfied the consular officer that you needed a C1-D (transit and crew) visa. You needed to fly to the US and transit to a port where you were going to be part of a ship's compliment (the crew). So you got the C1-D. To obtain a B-2 (tourist) visa, you'll have to satisfy the consular officer that you have compelling reasons to return to your home country. Now for the opinion parts: Since you used your C1-D as you were supposed to, that counts in your favor. Furthermore, having a good job in your home country will help. Even if your C1-D visa had decades until it expired, it wouldn't do you any good- wrong purpose. When you arrive at the port of entry in the USA, they CIS officer will ask, "What will you do?" If you said, "I'd like to tour," that wouldn't be the right answer because a C1-D visa is to transit the USA, not visit. You'll need the B-2 visa. Sure, nothing is assured, but from what you've said, I believe your chances are pretty good.

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