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cardinal   1

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Burkina Faso
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Actually about 2 weeks ago - but it's been a busy 2 weeks. Below is the review I just posted:

I can't express how impressed I was with the consulate. From the time we picked up the packet of documents to the day of the interview was 3.5 weeks. They scheduled the interview around my schedule (I was out there for work and traveling around) because they really like to have the USC there for the interview. They called us the day before the interview to check that I was back in Ouaga. We arrived at 8:50am for our 9am appointment. We had to wait outside the consular section about 10 minutes while the interview before us finished, an then they called us in. The CO was super-sweet (and spoke really good french) and put FI at ease. The interview was three questions: 1. Tell me your story 2. Do you have any plans for the wedding? 3. Are you going to do anything to celebrate in BF (to which we said we had traveled to spend the previous weekend with his fam, and showed her the pics). Then she said that it was clear that we were love each other, and to come back in a couple days to pick up the visa! Total duration, including the time waiting and paying the fee and such: less than 30 minutes. She didn't even ask for the 134a - I had to ask her before we left if she wanted it. Two days later, they called him to come pick up the visa. ten stars :dance::dance::dance::dance:

I've heard so many horror stories about SSA consulates, but I guess BF is low fraud (I think they don't get many K1s), and we don't have any red flags - same educational level, lived together for a year, etc. Our friends had their interview about a month before us, and they said the first thing the CO said to them was "Congratulations!", after which they felt pretty confident :D

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TBoneTX   45,524

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
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You ended up on top -- congratulations, si man!

This is an example of a consulate's being up-front about the desirability of the petitioner's presence. Others are not this transparent.

Edited to add: OP, please update your timeline! :)

Edited by TBoneTX

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

 
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