The F-1 visa lets you study at a SEVP-certified school in the United States. It is decided at a consular interview: your Form I-20, money that covers your costs, and whether the officer is satisfied you will return home (INA 214(b)).
This is a checklist and refusal-risk reading from your answers, not a visa application.
Questions cover what you will study, whether a school has accepted you, who pays and what the money covers, your ties home and your travel history.
Educational only — not a filing recommendation, not legal advice, and not an approval prediction.
Questions below start from this visa’s destination and goal. You can change any answer.