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| Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Review on January 24, 2013: |
Veeb
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
When I finely got the letter from the consulate in Amsterdam, the whole planning began. You have to fill in forms, get your checklist items ready, and send it all back to the consulate. Then they can schedule your interview. Together with the date and time of your interview, you get the telephone number of the doctor you have to see.
A week before your interview you get your medical check and chest x-ray. They check your vaccinations (when you call for an appointment you can request which ones you need). I did that so I could let that be done by my own doctor. I had to have BMR and DTP, They also check your heart, lungs, length, weight, they take blood for STD’s and the x-ray is for TB.
The doctor is a kind and relaxed Dutch doctor. You wait together with his patients in an old Amsterdam house. The x-ray is about 1 km walk from the doctor. So I parked my car at the parking lot Museumplein. From there everything is close by and easy to get to by foot. I must say, I don’t like doctors so I was more nervous for my medical then the interview. My fiancé was here with Christmas and we made the whole package ready, so I knew I had everything we needed.
Then finely the day we had been looking forward to for so long, my interview! The consulate is on the Museumplein, again an Old Dutch house. First you wait outside in a line. Like the Dutch are.... all were protecting their spot in the line, but finely you get called forward by your appointment time and not who was there first. Then you go in together with the others, through some sort of airport like security. They check your passport; you have to leave all your bags there. After the detector you walk into a big waiting room with your big pile of forms and proof. The cabin I was in (nr. 5) was in a smaller room next to the bigger one. There were a few places to sit. We were with 5 people who came for the K1. There my nervousness started. That happens when you all have to wait and wait. Then finely a very nice lady came in the window and we had to line up and see her one by one. She checks your forms, takes your passport, pictures, documents you have to bring, and the stamps. You also have to give your fingerprints. When all is done, you have to sit and wait till the consul comes in from another window and asks you forward by your name. There were people before me so I went to the toilet, where I heard my name called! Runnnnnn! But also the consul was a nice and patient person. You have to state that all you tell and brought in is true and then sign the papers you filled in weeks ago and sent back. Then he asks all kinds of Q's. You can hear the answers of the others too, which is weird, but I don’t think he all asks you the same! With some it’s about their first marriage, when they want to marry and where, with me he asked where and when we did meet, what my fiancés mothers name was (bet it was to check if I knew that his dad died)....if his kids did like me...how old they were etc. I could tell he read the forms before he called me forward. Then the great words came: We are going to print the visa in your passport!!! and you will get it in the mail within 5 days, have a nice day!....
Because you can’t take your phone inside the consulate, I left it in the car. I went out got my phone a.s.a.p. and called my fiancé: YESSSSSSSS!
All together I was inside for 1.5 hours.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #11347