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How to Read Your US Visa?

It is really important that you are able to read and interpret the information on the United States visa document clearly and properly. This is not going to help you understand the information properly that is displayed on the visa document but would also help you understand what kind of a visa has been issued to you and not to forget, with that you would be able to avoid future troubles too.

Here is how you would be doing the same:

1. First from the top left corner you should look for the information related to, from where your visa was issued. This should be the place or rather the name of the city from where you had appeared for the interview with the visa officer.
2. Next you ought to check the Passport number on the visa document is printed correctly.
3. Next you need to check that your name is spelled correctly on the visa document. Even the smallest of the errors needs to be reported to the authorities immediately having failed to do the same could have serious consequences even up to refusal of entry into the United States after you have arrived at the port of entry.
4. Below the passport number would be your permitted umber of entries. “M” is for multiple entries and in case there is a number mentioned there you would be eligible to apply for entries up to that many times.
5. Below the entries would be the annotation field, this field is primarily indicated for extra information about your visa document. If you consider the example of the student visa then in this annotation field what you would be finding is the Sevis number and the name of the school in which you would have taken admission.
6. Above the annotation field would be the field where in the expiry date of the visa would be mentioned. The point to be noted here is that this date has got nothing to do with how long your stay is going to be in the United States. All that it specifies is that beyond that specified date you would not be able to request for an entry in to the United States basis that visa, and you would have to procure or have a new one approved.
7. Above that your date of birth would be mentioned again the smallest of the errors here needs to be reported
8. Above that is mentioned is the Visa type and the class of the visa. The class is dependent on the purpose of your travel, and could be B1, J1 so on and so forth. The alphabet “R” would signify passport type Regular.