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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review on December 14, 2009: |
srjames9
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Ok so we arrived at the embassy at 5:45AM in order to be one of the first in line. We were actually like the 8th or so. They assigned us line 3 and gave us Green Dots to place on our clothes bu an Embassy worker. From there we entered promptly at 7AM and proceeded to go to line 40. There a nice young woman came out and announced the process. They provide a folder and inside there are two things... a checklist and a clear plastic baggie for two photos of the applicant. The instructions that were given to us were to place our peper work (whatever we brought to the embassy in the order listed and only in that order.) So I did that, I had my folder reviewed and the young lady took the appointment letter and told us to sit and wait for my wife's name to be called. So we did - and that's when the torture began... we waited and waited and waited. Finally like 2 or so hours had passed then my wife's name was called over to window 31. We both approached the window. As my wife picked up the phone to speak to the lady, she blantly said tell your husband to go sit down. So my wife told to go sit and I did. While I was waiting they grilled my wife with questions and went through the papers in our stack. Since there were duplicates of everything. She gave my wife an entire stack of the package that was submitted. She then told my wife to go sit over by Window number 2 and wait for her name to be called. We waited for her to be called once again. This time she was called very quickly - it was for the finger printing. She went and did the finger prints and then we continued to wait some more ... and more and more. At about 1PM a woman came out and asked if we were wainting for an IR/CR visa. We said yes along with some 10 other people there. She proceeded to take down the names and disappeared.
Then about 30 minutes went by and they started calling names to the windows of the people who had placed there names on the list. We were third in that line.
Once they called us, it all went very quickly. 6 or 7 questions total. 3 for my wife and 3 or 4 for me and that was it.
How many trips did I make to see her?
How long had we known each other?
Where did we meet?
And since we have a daughter ... provide evidence of my daughter's existence i.e. birth certificate. And off we went to Domesa.
Aside from the waiting - the experience was not a bad one. The waiting is mortifying so don't get there super early liek we did - ya won't get out sooner!
Cheers!
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #5401