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The questions a consular officer really asks, in a different order every time, with follow-ups that keep coming until an answer satisfies. Every answer is scored as you give it, and nothing is hinted at while you speak. When it ends you get a plain report on where your answers held up and where an officer would press.
12–26
questions, drawn from your own file — it ends when the file is covered, not at a count
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file fields you are held to, plus whatever your documents add
Live
risk scoring from your first answer, released as a report at the end
How the questions were built
Nothing in this simulation is guesswork about what an officer might want to hear. Three steps stand behind every question, follow-up and cross-check.
The question set comes out of anonymised transcripts of genuine interviews, not from lists of sample questions. That is why it opens with the counter formalities and why the wording is plain rather than polite.
Transcripts, not templates
Former visa officers went through the questioning for funding, employment and return intent, the follow-ups that come when a figure does not match the file, and the language of the closing report.
Reviewed line by line
Every cross-check maps to a documented reason applications are refused — an open return, funds that appeared last week, a sponsor who is not a relative, an undeclared refusal or ban.
One check per ground
Trained on real interviews
The model learned from anonymised transcripts of genuine appointments and from published refusal grounds — which is why it fastens onto an open return flight, a balance that appeared last week, or a sponsor who is not a relative, instead of asking pleasantries.
4,200+
anonymised interview transcripts reviewed
38
consulates and visa sections represented
13
refusal grounds the cross-checks map to
What is actually asked
These are the questions the practice interview puts, grouped the way an officer works through a file. The indented lines are the follow-ups — they come when the first answer is thin, and they are where most people come apart.
The check is whether the trip you describe is the trip your documents describe.
What is the purpose of your trip?
How long do you intend to stay?
Describe your itinerary.
Money is the single most cross-checked area. A figure that does not match the file stops the interview dead.
Who is paying for this trip?
What is your monthly net income?
An employer you can name precisely, with approved leave, is the strongest evidence that you are going back.
Who is your employer, and in what position?
Booked and paid are different answers, and the gap between your booking and your dates is the first thing counted.
Where will you be staying?
This is what a refusal usually turns on. The questions get hypothetical here on purpose.
What family ties do you have in your home country?
Where do you currently live, and since when?
What will you do once your stay ends?
Do you know anyone in the destination country?
Your passport is open while you are asked. Vagueness about your own stamps reads badly.
Which countries have you travelled to in the last five years?
I am going through your passport. Tell me about the stamps in here.
Have you held a visa for this country, or any other, before?
Anything undeclared here is worse than the thing itself. It is already known before you are asked.
Has a visa ever been refused to you?
Have you ever stayed longer than permitted in any country?
Have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence, in any country?
Have you ever been refused entry at a border, removed, or deported from any country?
Is there any entry ban recorded against you, anywhere?
Reading them is not the same as answering them under silence. In the practice session you asks these in a different order every time, holds your answers against your own file, and says nothing about how you are doing until the report.
Three things you cannot get from a checklist of sample questions.
The officer does not confirm, encourage or hint. You answer under the same silence you will get at the counter, which is what most people are unprepared for.
The officer works from what you filed. Say a number that differs from your application and they stop and ask — the way a caseworker does with the papers open in front of them.
Afterwards you see every answer, what would have drawn a follow-up, and the wording that would have closed the point instead.
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