Here is visa interview by Rohith, posted to MSinUS Facebook Group. Through his interview, we can understand that Visa Officer will come to know what consultancy prepared your DS-160 by IP address of organization. The same has been mentioned by many in the past. So, Stay away from Consultancies to improve your visa success rate.

F1 Visa Officer knows what consultancy you approached

My VI

Morning 8:00 AM

The person infront of me got his VISA and I stepped forward.

She told me 2 min and she took a break. While she was coming, she was watching me.

She asked me to pass the documents and I have passed them. She asked me what are the admits and why did u choose this college.

I said the same thing I have written down in hurry (working with computer sciences corporation for 3 years now blah blah blah). She said "You have rehearsed well " with a smile.

She was typing something

Then I said "Yes ma'am" in low tone. (She did not believe it)

The she looked in to the monitor and asked me "did you attend any consultancy"

I said "NO"

She was typing something for a long time.

She again said me "I am able to see it in my database that you have attended a consultancy"

I said NO (I was worried she might reject it)

Then she said "Don't worry. We just need to update our system"

She was typing something...

She said "I could see here that you work for CSC and your IP address is from CSC"

I said "Yes ma'am. I have filled my DS-160 form from CSC"

She said "Thank you" and passed me my I20.

She did not ask me any documents to show. I think work experience did the job. The guy at the other counter was rejected and was asked to reapply with work experience. I think Work experience will give 99% of the result.