US tourist Visa to attend a test prep course rejected (Sudan)

I'm a 22 year old medical graduate, graduated on December 13 last year (2018) and have a free period of 7 month before I start my medical foundation year in my country (sudan).

So I decided on taking advantage of this period of free time to prep for a master degree in the US or Canada.

I applied for a tourist Visa to the US in order to attend Kaplan's GRE prep course in Brooklyn New York (for a month period), that I have already payed for and got the enrolment letter and receipt, also I will attend another course in Morocco Casablanca in July 2019, after the GRE course, which I also have enrolment letter from...

I had all my papers ready enrolment letters, and certificate proving I have medical foundation year and civil service program due at the end of 2019. Yet I got my Visa rejected after only 4 questions, noting that my cousin who is a us citizen payed for my course, and the expenses of the trip will be payed by my family, which I got bank statement proving so. I haven't even got the opportunity to show my documents and only got asked what is the cause of visit and whom will be paying for my trip.

My question: why did my Visa get rejected without the consulate officer reviewing all the documents that will prove I will be returning to Sudan?

I am planning on applying again for a second time immediately to catch the course that I already payed for, should I apply again? And what advice you can offer?

Best Answer

We get a steady trickle of questions from people whose US visa application was rejected after an apparently perfunctory in-person interview. It appears that they have a rule that they must conduct in-person interviews for all applicants even when they've already decided based on the written application to reject it. (But I don't think we have found such an explicit rule state in so many words in any official document).

In your question and the comment below it, it looks like you were hoping to support your application on documents which you did not mention in the application, expecting to disclose them only at the interview. That is a common theme in this kind of questions, and is by any means a recipe for failure.

Always include all information you want to rely on with the visa application itself. The countries that do visa interviews do it such that they can ask questions of you and gauge your reactions, not so you can blindside them with a sudden pile of papers and arguments you held back from the application.

After all, the purpose of needing to apply for a visa in advance is such that the bureaucracy can examine your supporting material in their own time and with less time pressure than if you show up at the immigration desk at the airport and expect a border guard to judge all your documents then and there. It would scarcely be an improvement to move that scene to a consulate instead.

Do not expect visa interviews to be a negotiation. They're not.