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US Tourist Visa Interview Questions from Bangladesh (B1/B2)

Dhaka B1/B2 officers want a specific trip plan, traceable funds, and obvious reasons to return to Bangladesh. What gets asked, what trips up otherwise-strong applicants, and the answer pattern that lands.

Dhaka — three things the officer is checking

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The US embassy in Dhaka handles every Bangladeshi B1/B2 applicant. The window is brisk — officers see hundreds of applications a day — and the questions are calibrated to test three things, in order: a specific bounded trip, traceable personal funds, and obvious reasons to come back.

Bangladeshi applicants who walk in with those three answered tightly tend to get through in under two minutes. The applicants who get 214(b) usually fail on the second one — they describe funding that doesn't match what an officer can see in the file.

The questions

What gets asked in Dhaka

Q1
What is the purpose of your trip?
Specific event or activity, with dates. 'Visiting my brother for two weeks in May' beats 'tourism' every time.
Q2
Where will you stay, and with whom?
Dhaka officers ask early. Name the host, their city, your dates. If you're staying in a hotel, name it. Vagueness reads as 'unplanned'.
Q3
Who is funding the trip?
Self-funded is preferred. If a US-based relative pays, expect questions about who they are, how long they've been in the US, and what they do. Sponsor letters and I-134s help only if they match your verbal story.
Q4
What do you do for work in Bangladesh?
Role, employer, length, monthly salary. Self-employed applicants should be ready to describe their business and revenue in one sentence.
Q5
What ties do you have to Bangladesh?
Family, property, business, ongoing studies, dependents. Concrete reasons — not 'my whole life is here'.
Q6
When are you returning?
Exact date, and why. A job to resume, a school term, a parent who needs you, a business obligation. The 'why' matters more than the date.

The Dhaka-specific gotcha — funding consistency

Your DS-160 and your verbal answer must agree on who pays
Dhaka officers see a high rate of applicants whose DS-160 says one thing about funding ('self', 'parent', 'relative in US') and whose verbal answer says another. The mismatch — even when both are technically true — reads as a story being assembled in the moment. Re-read your DS-160 the night before. Whatever it says about who funds the trip, that is what your verbal answer should say first.
Answer craft

Weak vs strong — Dhaka-context examples

Weak
Strong
Purpose
Visiting family
My brother's medical residency graduation in NYC, May 12–28
Funding
My brother in US
Self-funded; ৳12L savings, salary ৳1.2L at Grameenphone
Work
I'm in business
I own a garment trading company in Dhaka, 9 staff, 5 years
Return
I'll come back
Returning to my business and my two children in school in Dhaka

Rehearse the Dhaka room before you reach it

Dhaka's B1/B2 interviews give you under two minutes to land all three answers cleanly. Opaige Coach runs a mock with an AI consular officer tuned to the Bangladesh pattern — voice or video, scored transcript afterwards. Practise until your funding answer is identical to your DS-160.

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