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B-2 tourist visa:

The B-2 tourist visa is a nonimmigrant visa which allows foreign nationals to enter into the U.S. temporarily for activities like tourism, visiting friends and relatives, medical care, participation in conventions, conferences, or convocations of fraternal or social organizations, participation by amateurs in musical, sports and similar events.

B-2 Visa is Suitable For:

•     Tourists on a pleasure trip to the U.S.
•     People visiting friends and relatives in the U.S.
•     People coming to the U.S. for medical treatment
•     Foreign nationals coming to the U.S. to marry a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder, upon establishing to the consular official and the USCIS that after the marriage, they will depart from the U.S., even though intending ultimately to immigrate
•     Amateur athletes, musicians etc. who participate in their respective activities in the U.S. without remuneration
•     People coming to participate in the conventions of social organizations
•     Dependents of alien members of the U.S. armed forces temporarily assigned duty in the U.S.
•     Dependents of crewmembers (D visa holders) or
•     B-1 visa holders solely to accompany the principal foreign national
•     Dependents of nonimmigrant for whom no derivative classification is available. For example, the elderly parent of an E visa holder
•     Persons to enter the U.S. to apply for special naturalization benefits on the basis of U.S. military service
•     Persons seeking a change to another visa status if they so advise the U.S. Consulate, and if the consulate is fully appraised of the circumstances
•     U.S. citizens, green card holders and nonimmigrant visa holders to invite their friends and relatives to the U.S.

How to qualify for tourist visa:

To qualify for tourist visa, you must demonstrate that:
     
     
•       The purpose of your trip is to enter the U.S. for business, pleasure, or medical treatment
•       You plan to remain in the U.S. for a specific, limited period
•       You have a residence outside the U.S. as well as other binding ties, which will insure your return abroad at the end of the visit

Ineligible for B-2 visa:

The nonimmigrant visa application USCIS Form DS-160 lists classes of persons who are ineligible under U.S. law to receive visas. In some instances an applicant who is ineligible, but who is otherwise properly classifiable as a visitor, may apply for a waiver of ineligibility and be issued a visa if the waiver is approved.