i unfortunately have first hand experience of that. tried to help a Romanian friend do an ESL course. her intentions were in fact pure. i asked to sit in on the interview. they permitted it, but i was not to speak or intervene. it was one of the first times i was ashamed to be an American. 1/

the consular officer (at the US embassy in Bucharest) had clearly prejudged her intentions to be impure. he adopted a prosecutorial tone, humiliated her, used the fact that her bartending English skills were good enough for her to participate in the interview to assert she was a fraud. 2/

it was miserable and unfair and to this day i regret keeping my promise of shutting up, though i doubt the outcome would have changed had i spoken up. /fin