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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review on November 19, 2011: |
kali1229
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
I did not attend the interview with my husband but from what he told me this is how it went:
His interview was scheduled for November 16th at 9:00.
My husband arrived shortly before six and he went to line #3 where there was only one other person in front of him. Once he went through security, he was the first one in the line where a CO asks for all of your paperwork in order. He said the Colombian lady that helped him was very rude. While she looked at the paperwork she said "So, you guys aren't married" and she kept repeating this in a statement manner, which my husband replied that we are as she had our marriage certificate in her hand and also gave her his birth certificate because on the back it has a statement notarized saying that we are married. My husband noticed that she was asking the opposite questions to fiancees ("you guys are married, but you are, I see that you are married"). She also looked at the "Certificado Judicial" and said that it wasn't good. That it was too old. (The date on it was from December 14th, 2010 but they're valid for one year. DAS would not give him a new one but just put that they had printed it out on October 14th, 2011).
She asked a few of questions:
-Where do you work?
-What do you do there?
-Where does your wife work?
She asked who INSERT NAME was and asked if that was my previous husband. My husband told her that I had never been married before and that that person was my step-dad who filled out the I-864a. After this, she suddenly changed her attitude and was very nice to my husband. He did have all of his paperwork in order so that part was easy. The girl behind my husband that got the same CO didn't have the same luck. The CO started yelling at her telling her to get her paperwork in order. Another person had glued their passport photos to the interview letter and she got yelled at too.
My husband waited for about an hour to go to the interviewing officer. He said she was a very pretty American lady and was very, very nice. She took my husband's finger prints, and asked some questions.
-Where do you work?
-What do you do there?
-Where does your wife work?
-What will you do for work when you get to the U.S?
She again asked about the Certificado Judicial, she wanted my mom's I-864a and when my husband couldn't find it she told him she would help him since she knew exactly what she was looking for. She also asked for my mom's green card which my husband did not have a copy of.
In the end, the CO said, "this is the approval letter, you have been approved, but if you don't send me by e-mail a copy of your mother-in-law's green card, I will retract this and you will not get your visa."
All in all, my husband said he had a very good experienced. He said that he felt it was important to have a color copy of the passport biographical page and to have everything organized.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #8733