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| Indonesia |  Review #33142 on April 24, 2024: |
Sisi_bungaz
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| Review Topic: K1 Visa
The interview process was quite smooth and the interviewer was very nice and kind. In my opinion, as long as you prepare all the documents they ask for, they will not be harsh on you.
| | | Belgium | Review #33140 on April 24, 2024: |
Benny1337
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| Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Had my appointment at 8:15am, was let in at the gates at 7:55am.
Passed through security, they require you to empty your pockets and take off your belt, watch and jacket.
This all gets X-rayed.
(Car)keys are not permitted, so they kept them in a numbered box and gave you a piece of paper to retrieve if after the interview.
You go up to booth 5, which is labeled cashier, with your passport and DS-260 confirmation page, which then gets scanned.
You’re given a number and told to go to whichever booth is displayed on the screen, next to your number.
This employee looks at your civil documents, confirms a few things and takes your fingerprints.
You’re then told to sit back down and wait until your number gets called again.
This time you go to a US official that takes your interview.
They make you take an oath, check your documents again, then ask you a few questions.
In my case these were: What job my wife does, what job I do, how we met, when we first met in person and when we last met in person.
There was some small-talk in between the questions, it’s all a fairly relaxed experience.
I was also given a document to sign confirming my knowledge of it being a conditional permanent residency, and a little paper with information about if you’d fall victim to domestic abuse.
After this, the officer mentioned I was approved and should get an email with further information about the tracking of my passport.
You leave the building, retrieve your kept items, and head out into the street.
| | | Jamaica | Review #33138 on April 24, 2024: |
Shenniel
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| Review Topic: K1 Visa
My interview went okay. Information is Just the same as every body else’s here. Was asked 20+ questions.
Please note tho…. If your appointment is 1, do not go too earlier than 1. They won’t let you in until that time. 1pm interviews are for persons on filing so they definitely won’t let you in until 1.
In addition to this, if you are able to do the medical before the interview that would be amazing. If no dates are available at Andrews until after then it’s fine, but your process will be severely delayed. If you have your blue immunization health card that says you are fully immunized, take the card to a health institution and compare it to the list of vaccines you will need to enter the US and take those vaccines before you actually do the medical. Three of the vaccines I realized that most persons had to take at the medical that is not on your vaccination card are TDAP, vaccine for influenza and vaccine for chicken pox. Most of us had to get those at the clinic growing up. You will also need Covid vaccine. You will have the choice to take them here or in the US, but you will have to get them.
Andrews is slow and complacent so do all u can to not let your process be delayed. I did my interview on March 5, 2024, medical on March 15 2024 and my medical was just sent to the embassy. I’m writing this on April 23,2024.
All the best. Have any questions, email me at paulajoshery@gmail.com
| | | Montreal, Canada | Review #33134 on April 23, 2024: |
smcu
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| Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Waited quite a while but that’s fine, I did both my children’s CRBA’s there and knew what to expect. The officer said “I intend to approve you but our systems are down so if something comes up in your file lookout for your email, otherwise this is how you track your visa when it gets shipped back to you”. So left worried of course and 5 hours later my tracker said my visa was issued. Shipped out on a Friday received it on the Monday.
| | | Tunisia | Review #33133 on April 22, 2024: |
Shawn and Jihene
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| Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
This review is from the point of view as myself (Husband Petitioner) and wife (immigrant applicant).
After all the stress and anxiety, the actual visa appointment was smooth and relatively quick. I think we benefited though from the fact that just the week before, we had been to the consulate for our daughter's consulate report of birth abroad, and so the CO already knew us and recognized us, and had agreed to let me into the embassy for my wife's visa appointment (as my wife is nursing, and would need help to attend to the newborn.
All in all, we arrived a little before 730AM for an 8AM appointment. We were among the first one's in. They gave my wife a number after security, and after about 15 minutes of waiting, her number was called. She had to provide all the original documents of the following:
Marriage contract
city hall marriage certificate
birth certificate
police record
my tax info (oddly, they didnt ask for tax transcripts, they wanted the copies of w2s. they also asked for 2023, which luckily we had. Technically, this shouldnt have been required as taxes were not due until April 20 and our appointment was April 3).
We had a whole stack of documents ready to present, along with photos meticuliously organized and labels that fell many prime pine forests I am sure. But they didn't ask for any of this.
After the documents were submitted, we waited again for about 30 minutes, until her number was called again. They asked her essentially four questions:
When did we meet
how did we meet
when did we get married
what she intended to do in the USA.
After she answered the questions, the CO said "your visa is approved" and gave her a pink slip to come back in two weeks (Eid was the following week so the consulate would be closed). We were in and out in about an hour. We checked her CEAC info hourly. It was in adminstrative processing until about 3PM and then changed to issued. We went back on April 17 and she was in and out in 30 minutes to retrieve her passport (note is seems all immigrant visa appointments occur on Wednesdays).
One thing that was disapointing was the discrepency in how my wife was treated in my presence as a US citizen and when I was unable to go with her when she picked up her passport. We had to attend with our newborn child as we had no one to keep her with and my wife is nursing. When I was able to attend, the security guards were accommodating and friendly, polite and nice to both her and I. Unfortunately, without my presence, they were rude and condescending to my wife, unprofessional, and bullied her for having to bring our child. I plan on bringing this up to the consulate directly, as this is an unacceptable way to treat a young mother.
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