We were totally unaware that my parents had overstayed, my father handled all the applications and my parents have been separated for over 30 years, and this was never mentioned to my mother and therefore we didn’t know. There’s a yes/no section on the DS-230, Part II, form that has to be filled out and it mentions if you’ve tried to fraudulently have sought to get a visa and we feel this is the reason why her visa was denied. They weren’t very specific if that was it, but the counselor told my mother she had committed fraud by staying here longer than her visa had allowed her to and this is really the only section on all the documents that were filled out, we feel they were referring to. I tried to get an answer from the counselor section at the embassy (I wasn’t present during my mother’s interview) and I was told that she was told the reason why her visa was denied and all they told her was that she had committed fraud for staying longer than they should have. I’m really at the end of my rope here to be honest.

