Chennai, January 07: Talking tough against fraudulent methods to obtain American visa, the US Consulate General here today said it would not tolerate such practices and warned genuine visa seekers against falling prey to touts.
“The proportion of false applicants (to genuine ones) is high. We have no tolerance for fraud documents and other fraudulent means to obtain a US visa and we are highly successful in detecting them,” US Consul General Andrew T Simkin said.
Addressing a press conference here on the new online visa application procedure for a non-immigrant visa, “DS-160”, he said consular officers were “highly successful in detecting fraudulent documents and applicants with false stories.”
Simkin said 80 per cent of the applicants received visas while the rejections included both failure in meeting stipulated requirements as well as fraudulent methods to obtain the travel document.
–Agencies