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| London, United Kingdom |  Review on February 3, 2015: |
robbert000
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Hi all,
Figured I'd leave a quick review of London embassy.
I arrived yesterday (2nd of February 2015) and stayed in the hilton Hyde park. This is about a 20 minute walk to the embassy through Hyde park. I decided to wake up at around 6am, take a shower and have a quick breakfast before going to walk to the embassy. However it was snowing pretty bad this morning, so decided to take a taxi. The taxi was about 7GBP.
I arrived at the embassy at 7.10am and there were about 20 others already in the line front of me,
At 7.45 the embassy employees started setting up some quick desks and a tent because if the weather and then divided us into 2 separate lines, one for immigrant visa (YES your K-1 is classified as an immigrant visa at this point.) and one for non-immigrant (which was a significant longer queue). That said, I was the 2nd person through.
The kind girl checked my appointment letter and passport and sent me to the security booth entrance on the right.
Security here is similar to the airport. You take your belt and watch off, you can keep your coat on. Ipad can remain in your bag. Although I have seen them checking some iPads etc, if they had power.
All in all, I was inside the embassy just at 8am.
At around 8.40 I got my number called, walked to the booth where the person asked me for my birth certificate, police reports, passport pictures, passport, DS-160 confirmation and the I-134. I must have been at his desk for maybe 2 minutes.
He kindly asked me to sit down again and wait for my number to be called a 2nd time.
At this point I thought it might be a while with the amount of people now inside the embassy so I got myself a coffee. Which is actually not expensive (1.80 GBP) and pretty tasteful.
However, I have been sitting for maybe 15 minutes when my number was up again,
I walked back to the booth (I happen to got the same number twice, but I don't think that is always the case). Where instead of having the same man, I got a lovely lady sitting there. She asked me how I met my fiancé, to which I replied that I met her at my first business trip to the U.S.
She told me, "that was one lucky business trip" and smiled.
I laughed, she browsed through the paperwork and told me I was approved.
In short I had a great experience at the embassy and I have been inside a bit over a hour,
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