Perhaps this thread should be renamed "Please answer my questions that I will ask over and over again until you tell me what I want to hear"

People have been nice to you but I can't hold it back. Either you are thick as pig shit or just don't care. You are going about everything ass backwards and not paying any attention to the info you are getting. Are any of the schools you want to go to eligible to sponsor you for a student visa? If not, no visa for you. Do you have enough money, in cash, right now, to pay for a years worth tuition, supplies and living expenses, living with your girlfriend wont cut it either. If not, no visa for you. If by some miracle you do get a student visa, what are you going to do when you finish your course? You will be back in exactly the same position you are in now except you will have spent a bunch of money.

Come back to the real world and realize that the legal ways to come here are meant to keep people like you out. If you were married to a US citizen or have US citizen immediate family then the rules give you a massive, massive break but for anything else you are like the tens of millions of other people who have no realistic way of ever coming to the US as anything but a tourist.

Note that once you've had an interview by an institution, got their offer letter, applied to SEVIS, paid the SEVIS fee, got the receipt, applied for the visa, sorted your evidence out, had an interview, received the visa, and gotten back to the US, you may well have missed the start of term anyway.

The list of SEVIS approved schools is here. Is your school on it?

Bill S. Yes they are thank you for that took me a while to find it lol. Look guys I have 15 grand in english pounds that I have saved up to do the american dream it just so happens I met an american girl and that has helped me make this dream more possible maybe transfer that to the american currency and you get $29.000 (I found out on a website) surely thats enough to pay for my class which is $7000-$12000 surely the rest of the money is enough to pay for a student visa and to live off?

This is one of the most popular currency converter sites: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Am...=52&image.y=14

And it says $23,000.

If the school tuition is $12,000 per session (is it just one session or what?), that leaves you only $11,000 leftover to live on. That won't go far.

Of course it's not up to us to decide, anyway. Bring all your proof to the visa interview and see if the ConOff thinks it's enough.

Rene

If you really have that kind of cash, then surely you can afford a consultation with an immigration attorney for a reality check, yes?

What do they talk about?

bashy,
It's my suggestion that now that you have focused on a course of action (F-1 student visa for a SEVIS approved school) that you review the last several posts in this thread, and compose a new thread with any specific questions about applying for an F-1 visa.
Before you do that, I request that you read the link provided for the US Embassy London regarding the requirements and procedures for applying for an F-1 student visa.

This is a user help site; people can share their experiences and accumulated knowledge but you are expected to do the required research on your own. If you don't feel that you're understanding what you read, you're welcome to ask questions here but we expect that you respect the posters here by reading their replies, answering any follow up quesitons they ask and demonstrating that you are researching what you're asking about. If you need legal assistance, you can find a US immigration attorney at www.aila.org

To everyone who has contributed to this thread, thank you very much for helping educate someone who is completely new to US immigration and visas in general. Remember to exercise patience of your own with your replies. When in doubt, you can post a link for the OP to find more information, or simply not reply. It's not worth you getting a headache over on such a lovely summer day.