“It’s hard for them to give it to you”: They deny the visa for the second time to a Mexican who spoke of a labor detail and her sister who is legally resident in the United States

A bitter experience has a Mexican mother who saw her lose two chances to get her visa. Bere Hernández decided to tell what had happened to her when she went to perform the procedure at the consular headquarters in Mexico. She described herself as a disabled woman, which is stated on her retirement papers.

The first time was in 2020, when the process began, but the Covid-19 pandemic kicked in and “everything got delayed,” he said in a video he shared on TikTok.

After a long wait, the time had finally come and he traveled from Guanajuato to the consulate in Mexico City.

It was with the illusion of getting the visa, along with his two children, whom he had promised to take to Disneyland.

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“Reapply for your visa,” they told him the first time

At the consulate, she received a communication that surprised her. “And where they take your fingerprints and stuff, it turns out they say to me, ‘Hey, there’s no first-time visas yet. You have to process it again,” he said in a video, according to La Nación.

They had already told her that information in an email and she thought that when they let her go that was already corrected. She left discouraged, but tried again. “It was a useless expense”he says in the video while complaining about the process he went through in vain.

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Second attempt: they didn’t see us

Bere Hernández resumed the process in 2022 to obtain the long-awaited documents and travel to the United States.

Since he lives in Guanajuato, he remembered, “I had to do it double trip, double expenses, and for three, because it was my two children and me”.

He said he “completed the DS-160 form, specifying the reasons for his travels”.

The intention, as he said, was to take his children for a walk in the Disney theme parks and see his sister, who lives in that country.

He explained that he had collected the documents that showed that he was out of work due to a disability. “I’m fired,” he finished.

I wasn’t even going to ask for a visa to go to work. I’m working on my retirement. I can’t work here or in China.

Instead, he “told me that his sister was legally working in the United States.”

He thought that by leaving the dots on the i’s he would be playing it safe so they would give him clearance at the consulate.

The reality was different. Very different from what you imagined. She stated that she handed over her children’s passports and her own and after several questions about where her sister lived and what kind of visa she had, they eventually rejected her.

“He didn’t see us. He didn’t ask us anything. ‘No, your visa has been refused. You cannot go to the United States for the time being”, he received in response, as noted in the 3-minute video.

He said he was encouraged to share his experience because he saw the video of a Colombian girl, who was also denied a visa.

TikTok users, after listening to her, told her, according to La Nación and Pulzo, that they did not approve her visa because “nothing tied her to her country”, since she had no job because of her disability.

Your not working is a major reason for them to deny it, because there is “nothing” that will keep you in Mexico, one user shared on the network.

Another told him, “You have to have a job, work fully.”