KL, Malaysia Consular - Handing in off documents

[Miwa 0]

Hi, I am Miwa's fiancee, using his login.

Just wanted to document my experience at the KL Consular in Malaysia this morning. Today is my interview date and I had to hand in my documents for checking at 9am for my 1.30pm interview.

Reached the consular at 8.15 am and was told to wait till 8.45 am before I could enter. However, as I had to use the washroom, the guards let me in earlier to wait inside. The guards were really friendly and asked me to leave my cellphone and car keys with them. However, I was allowed to keep my documents, books, some reading material from work, house keys, purse, brush and lipstick and the two bags that i had with me.

Took at number at around 8.20am and waited till 9am before my number was called. The consular was filled with people applying for either social visit or business visit pass. As far as I could tell, there were only 3 other people who were there for "immigrant" visas (the classification I fell under for my number taking purposes). 2 were there for green cards and 1 unknown.

Handed my documents at around 9 am. The guy was pretty rude and was quite unlike the other consular staff that I observed during my wait there. I shrugged it off and tried to be friendly. He asked me to take out all the documents from the nicely prepared folder that I did up and I passed him stuffs piece by piece. Towards the end, I asked, "evidence of relationship?" He said, "Just pass a couple of photos"

Since the first piece of paper I got was Miwa's letter of intent (latest) to marry me, I asked if he wanted it. He rudely replied, "No! Just 2-3 photos" I passed him the photos (I had 6 of them) and jokingly asked him to take his pick out of them. He went, "Any other documents?" in the rude tone of his and I handed him my forgotten medical report which was inserted in my x-ray envelope. I was instructed by the doctor to hand the x-ray and medical report (inside in another small envelope) to the consular. But the guy went, "Take it out!" I was surprised and for the first time, opened the x-ray envelope and pass the smaller envelope to him and politely asked him if he wanted the x-ray too. He rudely replied no and told me to wait for them to call my number again. When I asked him if there's anything missing, he asked, "What else do you want to give?" I asked, "Our travel documents, phone bills..." before i could finish, he instructed me to wait for them to call me again.

So I waited.

At 9.30am, I was once again summoned to the window. I was shown the latest forms and was asked, have i seen them? Having seen them online, I said I did (I was confused then). Then he rudely asked, "Then why didn't you give it to us?" I was like, "er... but I didn't get them and was asked to fill in the old ds-156" Then he shoved the entire "packet-3" to me and rudely instructed me to turn the page, "Read it!"

I read it and it was an instruction to download the latest forms from the website (can't remember the url) and I told him that I have never seen that and in my packet 3, I did not receive it. I was confused what he wanted me to do it and handed him back the packet 3. He walked away for a while leaving me at the window and came back with 3 more forms to fill in. 2 of the forms were forms that I filled in when I applied for my social visit pass. He went, "Go away and filled it in and pass it back to me when you are done".

Did that, almost in tears by then as I was already really nervous for my interview day and having been treated quite badly by the guy. I filled in the forms as quickly as I could. One of the questions on the form were like, "do you intend to work in US? If so, fill in the name of your employer" I was like of course i intend to work, so i said yes and not applicable to the second part of the question. Another question was, "How long do you intend to stay in USA?" I ignored the question because I have no idea how long will I be there!

Some of the questions includes info in my passport which by then have been passed on to him. I asked him for it and he was quite rude and gave a long suffering sigh when he passed it to me. I forgot to fill in the back of one of the forms and he went, "You didn't fill this in!" So I quietly went and fill it in.

When all was done, I passed the forms to him. He said, "Come back for your interview at 1.30pm" For clarification sake, I asked if I have to leave the consular office. He went, "Yes! You have to exit here completely!" again in his rude tone.

Gah... for an emotional day, I really don't need to face a person who woke up on the wrong side of the bed!

I am worried about my interview now... It's 11am now and it'll be in a couple of hours time!

Wish me luck!

Regards.

Miwa's fiancee

[libragodess 1]

Honestly, You did exactly the right thing. I'm sorry you had to have such a grumpy guy at the window. He was truely aweful. Unfortunately that's what happens to alot of people who deal with the "public" as part of their job. But by clarifying and asking questions you did exactly what needed to be done. Stay positive, stay focused...and don't let this guy bring you down cause I guarantee you he's not bothered one bit by his actions. Good luck to you at the interview and I hope you post your results!

[iceyspots 0]

I wonder if they have any kind of customer service screening before they hand out these positions? lol

[juni 0]

Wow.... I thought they were nice.

Or maybe they were much nicer during visitor's visa interview?

Im from malaysia currently waiting for packet 3. Now this whole thing is making me nervous.

[ppboo 0]

How was the interview? Hope thing work well for you.....

[vickky 0]

Oh my gosh, am so disappointed abt the whole thing, hope everythin goes fine.

u'll get it just do what they told u to ok.

keep up update.

vick

[Miwa 0]

Wow.... I thought they were nice.

Or maybe they were much nicer during visitor's visa interview?

Im from malaysia currently waiting for packet 3. Now this whole thing is making me nervous.

Read my post on the interview. That guy was much nicer than the document guy. Yes, the social visit pass interview was much more pleasant than this. For that, my interview was over in less than a couple of minutes and they only looked at my salary slips and letter from my employer. They didn't want to look at the rest of my documents! Moreover, you can get back your passport the next day for the B1/B2 visa. For this k-1, they are keeping my passport for 3 days!