About Altovisas and the Interview Dataset

How Altovisas works, where its 16,204 F-1 visa interview reports come from, and the limits of what self-reported data can tell you.

Altovisas is a free practice tool for the United States F-1 student visa interview, built on 16,204 interview reports written by applicants about their own interviews between 2020 and 2026 and posted publicly online. The dataset is self-selected and self-reported: approval shares describe who chose to write something down, not the true approval rate at any consulate, and associations in it are correlational rather than causal. Nothing here predicts an individual outcome.

Altovisas is not legal or immigration advice and is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of State, any embassy or consulate, or any other government body. Answers given at a real interview must be truthful and your own.