Hello !


So today was the big day i left home around 6:20 and walked there relaxed. by 6:45 i was in front of the entrance alone..hehehe
Then about 5 min. after a girl for a CR1 came.. and another k1 couple, and another k1 girl and someone else we didn't talked with much.

7:30, they open the door and ask everyone passport + interview letter.
I go in first at the security checkpoint on the left and a so-so half rude, half neutral security gard ask for my things to put in the tray... goes through xray, of course my wonderful person is ringing..lol.... have to go through the other check with arms open etc.... they will then give me the letter B window#9. (the second girl went with the other gard who was faster and nicer).

Then they ask to wait downstair till beeing called.... We chitchat then about 10 min. later 2 gards come out from the elevator, asking the first 5 persons to come in.... they look quite serious but are still funny when they tell in their radio code from aviation...tango whisky etc.... like super serious... (i can't help but think that it's all of a fuss to just say some folks are coming upstairs (well if it was what he meant)... might have mean.. get my coffee ready, or wait for the croissant !)


7:48 we are upstairs, waiting in the room with a nice 180 degres view on the city... i can even see the building i live in from there !

8:05 the first person is called window 12 (the girl with CR1 visa)

a few minute after i am called window 9, it's a man...
i thought he was friendly at start but he turned out to be more neutral than expected... he made me thing about the father of the weasley in harry potter but with grey hair. We talked a mix of french and english while e was asking for the different papers.
it started with 2 photos, the medical (just the white enveloppe), my birth certificate and his letter of intent.
Followed by the 156k, passport, affidavit (originals), police certificate (originals and copy), copy of the picture page of the passport, enveloppe
asked me where we met and if my sweet was working as a ##### in US (i just had to say yes ! lol)

At the end i asked about the divorce certificate (i wonder if he would have ask it if i would have shut up).

The order in wich they ask the different documents are different from one officer to another.

Then had to go window 14 to pay the fees, the girl wasn't there yet and a bunch of other people were waiting for it already. So basically the thing is to sit down and go after thoses other people (most of them just pick a number there) then you go pay your 131$. The girl there was super friendly. After giving me the receipt the girl told me to go back to see her colleague.... so i went back to my window 9 but no one there... i waited a bit.. then got a little lonely so i went back to the other folks who where transiting in the other bigger waiting room.
Little wait till the person actually calls you (so no need to directly go back to see the colleague as the woman at the register said)
Then they take your fingerprint in some kind of electronic device. asked for my phone number in montreal (well i killed my cellphone a few weeks ago in water and my only phone was the one my sweet gave me.... (he was a little suspicious about that one but well) and ask to go back to the waiting room.
Then wait for another 10/15 min or so.... and it's my turn to the interview room. I saw there a guy super friendly, talking more like in a conversation, asking how we met, when he came for the first time, how many time we saw each other, what he does for living, if he owns a house or an appartment.
Then he asked to pledge that everything on the file was true (actually i don't remember if the pledge was before or after) then he said he would APPROVE (yey !!!) my application, that everything was fine and that it should be printed today or tomorrow so i might get it early next week.

I then left, chichat for another minute with my pals there waiting and went on my way home

It feels so great !!! we gonna get married in 16 days !! (and he is coming here in 9 days) how cool is that !!!!!
Good luck to all who their interview are coming ! and to ladynoles who have hers this afternoon !!

congratulations

Congratulations!!

Oh sweetie, that's wonderful!
Congratulations!!
Best of luck with the move and the wedding!!!

WHOOOOO! That is AWESOME! Congratulations Melusine! Great review.

But tell me what this means:

asked me where we met and if my sweet was working as a ##### in US (i just had to say yes ! lol)

Your fiance works as a #####? What is that?

Congratulations!! I'm glad everything went well. I'm amazed at how fast everyone is out of there!

Congrats Mel....wonderful review. I think we make ourselves nervous for nothing. They don't bite...at least none have that I've read reviews about....*giggles*

CONGRATS!!

Thanks for the review! I am amazed with how quickly people are getting their reviews on vj! :-D

Congrats

Congrats Melusine!
Yes, what is a/an ######?? Hee, hee.

And BH45 sometimes they do bite...a little.

Congrats on your visa and best wishes on your upcoming wedding!


(I can't help but be jealous as you filed 1 week prior to me and I am still waiting on a NOA-2)

Yes, I too want to know what an ##### is....

Ok, if you say so....mine didn't. Maybe that's cause my daughter was with me....*pondering*

Congratulations! and have a happy and safe trip to your new home.

congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congrats!!

Congrats!

Thank you for sharing all the details. It makes me feel like I was there with you! I am so happy for you! We will have our interview in Montreal as well, We are having a baby in a little over 10 weeks and so, I am thinking about flying out with the baby for the interview and then the baby can meet his daddy's family then. Anyways... Congrats again. that is FANTASTIC news! I wish you Happily ever after!

Congrats that is wonderful news. Whoo hoo.

Congratulations!!!!

Congratulations. I always wondered who put the # on phones, I had no idea it was your soon-to-be Hubby. I once worked as a #####, had a terrible time, it was almost as bad as that time I worked as a *****.
BTW, are we all invited to the wedding because I have my Elvis outfit ready.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am so happy when I hear about others finally making it through.

lol..... alright.. under great pressure i will reveal what is a ##########..... it stands for network field engineer.... how exciting...
actually the guy at the consulate asked me also if it was a hardware or a software job then we talked about me, as a 3d animator, he asked if i worked on anything he knows... i said not yet but i will !! then we had a chichat about mac and pc....was funny (he prefers mac !)

Thank you for all the congrats (and to have tried to read (and understand my review) in english ! (i would have made a better one in french !)

To all who are around me, we will keep to see each other here on the canadian and of course in the aos section..yey ! some other paperwork...

Delicia, you are going with the I130, CR1 thing... this process is different and take about a year to process. There is a very long waiting time at the start but then the end goes more busy (so time feel faster) and on the other hand i think you will not have to do aos etc wich take for us K1 another 3 months (but at least within the US with our sweet), you will probably get some news soon. I do not know the last stats for CR1 but you should be quite close after all that waiting and i wish you luck for everything to come !!

The feeling of beeing approved is quite exciting and there is a big stress coming out from my chest (when i came back home, right after writing my review (see how important you guyz are) i went directly to sleep for like 3 hrs (got woke up by my sweet calling to get juicy details ).
I will fix a couple of things tomorrow, will start the change of adress etc and will get the re-organisation of the storage starting on friday.

This is the plan to come !

Oh such a let down on the xxxxxxx. Was hoping for something more juicy lol. Good to know we are more important than sleep, thanks for that. Now go out and celebrate.

Congratulations Mesuline!

congratulations! what fantastic news! have a wonderful wedding

Seems you had a good experience. Congratulations and all my best to you and your husband-to-be

Melusine! Tell CBR where to find beaver tails in Montreal!

beaver tails.. isn't it during the carnaval de quebec (february) in quebec city ?
I don't know about montreal !

Congratulations

Congrats Melusine!!





You can find them in a store around the old port area I think and also in few shopping centers. I used to buy some In Carrefour Laval in Laval, there is a little thing in the middle that sells icecream, moola fresh fruit juice and beaver tails

I was amazed to find out that elephant ears at any carnivals here are the same, but just bigger

Oh, nice one, Mephys! Let me go find CBR.

Those beaver tails and elephant ears are called something else in BC, but I can't remember what it is. Anyone know so I can stop letting it bug me?

Congratulations melusine, excellent news

First off, a heartfelt congratulations to you both!


This is too funny! We had the same interviewer, b/c after you wrote that, I remembered more of our interview! He also asked me if I had done anything he'd seen and told me how he does photography and prefers macs.

Congratulations!!! Wonderful news!


Hmmm, Beaver Tails, Elephant Ears. In Mexican bakeries, the same pastries are called orejas. Elephant tracks, knee patches, Swiss nothings, hocu-pocus crispies, angel wings, and langos (pronounced “langosh") chrusciki (Polish pastry). In St. Louis they're called Funnel Cakes.

Hahaha ! Rae,,,yep looks like him... like a guy gray hair super energetic happy kind of person, it was cool and nice.
and when he ask put your right hand (and obviously he put his right hand in the air)...the first thing you do is copy him as if he was on a mirror.... then you think about it.... look at both of your hand to figure out wich one....oh the right.... (no comment..lol)

It was a cool funny experience !

Yes he was totally happy and friendly and it was contagious.

Yes! They're called funnel cakes here too! I had one at the arts and crafts festival we went to here in town. YUMMMMMM.

Wonderful, Congratulations!!!

Congrats!