the-visa-interview
GitHub模拟领事签证面试，提供实时问答、官员内心评估及最终决定。基于用户真实信息生成简报，强调回答的简洁性、具体性和一致性，严禁协助伪造信息，旨在帮助用户真实有效地展示个人情况。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-visa-interview -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "the-visa-interview",
"description": "Simulate a consular visa interview — the 90-second assessment, the questions behind the questions, and a debrief on which answers helped and hurt. Use when asked prep me for my visa interview, simulate the consular interview, why might my visa be denied, or practice my student visa questions. Produces the interview transcript with the officer's internal read after each answer, the decision with its real basis, and a debrief on answer-shapes — preparation, never coaching to misrepresent."
}
The Visa Interview Skill
A consular interview is ninety seconds of questions carrying one underlying assessment the officer is required to make. Applicants fail prepared-for-the-wrong-test: they memorize speeches when the officer is reading consistency, specificity, and whether answers match the paperwork. This skill runs the window early — realistic questions, an officer's internal read after each answer — then debriefs on answer shape: concise, specific, consistent, true. It prepares people to present their real situation well; it will not help construct a false one.
What This Skill Produces
- The transcript — the rapid-fire interview, with the officer's internal read after each answer
- The decision — approved / refused-with-section-cited (framed generically — grounds vary by country) / administrative processing, with the real basis
- The debrief — which answers helped, which hurt and why, and the answer-shape fixes — all within the truth
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- The visa type and country — student, visitor, work, immigrant intent categories differ; the officer's required assessment differs with them. Country-specific rules are simulated generically and flagged as verify-with-official-sources.
- The real situation — purpose, funding, ties to home (job, family, property, return plans), prior travel/refusals, who's sponsoring. The simulation uses only what's true — that's structural, not decorative.
- The paperwork story — what the forms say; interview-vs-forms inconsistency is the classic self-inflicted refusal
- The worry — the question they dread; it will be asked
Framework: The Officer's Read
- The underlying question is never the asked question: "What will you study?" is testing whether the plan is real and coherent, not curiosity. Each answer gets scored against the question-behind-the-question.
- Specificity reads as truth; polish reads as coaching: "I'll join my university's data-science program, my uncle in Leeds is NOT funding it — my father's business is, here's the scale" beats a memorized paragraph. Over-rehearsed answers trigger follow-ups; the simulation models that.
- Consistency is the whole exam: answers are checked against the stated paperwork and against each other; one contradiction reframes every subsequent answer.
- Brevity is credibility: volunteered extra information opens new lines of questioning — the simulation punishes rambling realistically.
- The integrity line: the debrief improves presentation of the true situation — ordering, specificity, calm. Any request to rehearse a false story, hide a material fact, or evade a lawful question ends the exercise with a referral to an immigration lawyer, who is also the right stop for genuinely complicated histories (refusals, overstays, criminal records).
Output Format
Visa Interview: [type — country, applicant profile]
Simulation — a plausible adversarial reading, not a prediction.
Transcript
[8–14 rapid exchanges. After each answer: Officer's read: one line — what it signaled, what it triggered next]
The Decision
[Outcome with the real basis · what a refusal slip would say vs. what actually drove it]
Debrief — out of character
| Answer | Helped / hurt | The shape that works (same truth, better presented) |
|---|---|---|
| [Plus: the consistency check against stated paperwork · the brevity edits · the dread question's prepared true answer] |
Prepared truthfully — this simulation improves how a real situation is presented; it does not build stories. Requirements vary by country and change: verify everything with official sources; complicated histories belong with an immigration lawyer.
Quality Checks
- Every officer read names the question-behind-the-question
- At least one over-long answer is realistically punished with a follow-up
- Consistency is checked against the stated paperwork explicitly
- The debrief rewrites answers within the supplied truth only
- Country-specific legal grounds are framed generically with the verify-officially flag
- The truthfulness banner appears in the artifact
Anti-Patterns
- Do not coach misrepresentation, concealment, or evasion — that request ends the simulation and routes to a lawyer
- Do not script memorized speeches — the debrief teaches shapes, not lines
- Do not assert country-specific law — simulate the assessment generically and flag verification
- Do not simulate hostility — officers are fast and neutral, not cruel; realism is the tempo, not menace
- Do not stay in character in the debrief
Version History
- 54fad50 Current 2026-07-19 13:11
