Consulate Review: Bucharest, Romania
Review Topic: K1 Visa
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April 9, 2014 |
| Embassy Review : |
Very nice staff, well organised, very fast process.
Arrived at the embassy half an hour earlier. The security will allow you to wait across the street, not at the embassy entrance or the embassy sidewalk. At 13 o’clock sharp, another security came out and called our names and invite in 2 people (only 2 at time). Its exactly like security check at the airport, almost all metal put aside in a basket and run through that machine, and I crossed through metal detector. Advise: Close your telephone before entering in the embassy, anyhow they will keep the telephone at the entrance and give you a ticket, when you go, show the ticket and they will give telephone back. Once security was done, I was redirected into another building, just across.
The staff and security will guide you what do to and where to go before you get to ask, they just see immediately if you are disoriented. I enter the building, looking similar like the post office, that means counters with windows. The embassy staff is behind closed doors and windows. 17 counters in a room with chairs.
As soon as I entered, I did not have a chance to sit because I heard my name (through a microphone- every counter has a microphone) to come to counter number x: to live my passport. After I go back to sit, again, heard my name to go at another boot to live my documents. I had prepared a folder with all the documentation required, but the lady asked me one by one the papers. I had to take them out from my hotshot folder and slide them over to her. First birth certificate, original and copy, then police certificate (cazier), affidavit of support, employment paper from my fiancé (all financials) medical exam, and relationship proofs. They did not ask about my DS-160 confirmation page. Then go back to sit but again, called me to another boot to take my fingerprints, and then again to another counter to pay the visa. And after this very quick and easy process, I have waited one hour to call me another counter to take the interview. I think they forgotten all about me, because, I arrived the second one from 4 people, and as I sit and wait, new people came, and everybody was at the interview one by one, the come and go and I was still there! I was the last one. One lady from the counter saw me, and told me that the visa could not be printed today, and I told her that I did not even taken the interview, and then immediately they called me to take the interview. Very weird, I really don’t know what to believe.
Ok so it was an American woman, who talked Romanian, but when I replied she did not understand and ask me to repeat, so I told her I could speak in English. And of course, because of the emotions i spoke the ugliest Romanian accent ever ever!! The questions was: my fiancé name, my fiancé birthday, when did we met, how long was he in America (1988), why did he come back to Romania (he was 3 years in Romania and we stayed together), where did we stay? If I had any proof form where we stayed, I did not have. Why did he come back to Romania? What are our plans, any wedding plans? I answered it was a surprise from my fiancé where and when we are going to marry but it was not important for me. Just take one step at the time; Ok I will give you your visa. And that was it. I expressed my self very badly because of the emotions, but they are very nice, and if you have all documents prepared, emotion is allowed, the are used to people trembling at their windows talking bad English and mess-up birthdays.:-)
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Very Good |
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