Originally Posted by televisor

However, while getting my Visa interview (US embassy in a central/western european country), I did notice that anyone who sounded vaguely eastern european was not getting their Visas approved on the spot: they were all told that they would need to submit more data, e.g. their job contracts. (The people I overheard all seemed to be of either polish or russian citizenship, based on accents and names.) It may or may not be worth preparing this additional documentation and bringing it to the interview.