can anybody describe what the U.S. embassy in Saigon is like from the fisrt very minute they work in to the very last minute when they walked out of the Embassy?

I don't believe there is an US Embassy in Saigon any longer, maybe before 1975.
Here is what we have in Vietnam:

US Embassy in Hanoi
US Consulate in HCMC

Which one do you want to know?

I believe HCMC, because HCMC is Saigon duh.

sorry,

I'm talking about the US Consulate in HCMC.

Sorry Cuong, I will try my best...
Can someone update this short note, i don't remember correctly, it's been 2 years...going on 3...



Walk in: show your interview appointment letter at the door.
Armed Guards scan you for weapons, check in cellphone (best, leave it home) and any electronic devices.
Then they let you through the metal detector door.
Turn right at the iron-gated fence, walk down the hall way where it leads into the immigration/visa interview booths hall! I don't know what they call it.
Check in all her requested paperworks/evidence at the front windows. Vietnamese staff will check off the list of items you suppose to bring in for the interview. Miss one and they will send her home! Check the P4 list!
Then they tell you which booth she will be interview at...
Now, inside the non-air-conditioning room/hall, there are benches,placed opposite from the interview booths.
Your wife will sit and wait for them to call her.
Then they will call her in the booth.
One/two chairs in this closed classdoor booth, separated by bulletproof glass windown, think: movie theater ticket booth.
The interview officer will have with them a vietnamese interpreter.
The interview officer will conduct the interview in English/Vietnamese base on your preference.
With in 5-10 mins, your wife job is to convince him everything he doubt about your relationship is wrong, or convince him 100% that everything he thinks of your relationship is REAL and your wife should get a Visa.
Pink slip issued = Visa issue the same day or next day.
Blue slip issued = in doubt of your relationship, need more evidence
Green slip issued = interview OK, need to supply few more documents
White slip issued = get the heck out of my face, you fraud piece of crap!
Then she leaves, get out the same way she got in.
Get her stuff and go home!