Canada US Consulate Reviews
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| Vancouver, Canada |  Review #6239 on June 19, 2010: |
MeggyMo
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Ok so I am so happy to finally be posting this up here!
I had my interview yesterday and as everyone had told me before it went great!
I was so shaky and nervous going by myself. Sadly my fiance Angelo had to work.
So I arrived an hour or so earlier than my appointment and was told to come back at 12:45.
I went to a nice little cafe and had some lunch and tried to calm my nerves.
After about 18 cigarettes I strolled back down there and was greeted by two very friendly security guards.
They searched through my binder with all my documents asked me if I had any metal objects on my person or electronics and then told me to go up the stairs to the elevators.
A very silent security guard then escorted me up the elevator to the 20th floor.
I got off and went through another set of security. These guards were also very pleasant. One of them let me through the door and I sat and waited.
I met a nice young woman who was also going f... read complete review
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| Montreal, Canada | Review #6234 on June 18, 2010: |
kizza
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We showed up around 6h30 (parked the car on Bleury, below René-Lévesque, 12$ for the day - and a very short walk to the consulate.) We were the only ones there for a while. We were standing on the left side of the doors, and everybody else lined up on the right side, which made me start to doubt myself, but when the security guy came out, he had everybody line up behind us.
We ended up with letter B because our guy doing the security check was slower than the other. No big deal. Went downstairs and waited for someone to come back and escort us up the elevator.
We got called to window 8 after letters A and C. The lady was super nice. She had her checklist and asked for my papers, one at a time.
-Original birth certificate + copy + translation (certified, not notarised)
-Passport + copy of bio page
-Police certificates (originals they keep)
-Medical report - sealed - they dont want the xrays
-2 photos with my name printed on the ba... read complete review
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| Montreal, Canada | Review #6199 on June 12, 2010: |
Golden_State
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I'm so excited to be at this stage in my visa journey where I'm writing a review of the Montreal consulate, not obsessively checking other people's reviews every day to calm my nerves  My experience at the consulate was the same as all of the other reviews I've read here, so instead of going into minute detail about everything, I'll share my top 5 tips about how to survive the experience.
1. Arrive no later than 6:30. We got there at 6:35 and if we were a second later, we would have gone up in the second group of people. They seem to let a bunch of people in at a time to clear security and be let upstairs. We were upstairs for about 20 minutes-half an hour before the second group even got there. Being even a couple of minutes late would probably ended up costing us an hour of time waiting.
2. Have something to eat or drink while waiting in line outside of the consulate. For me, this was the most stressful time and it was good to have a ... read complete review
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| Montreal, Canada | Review #6193 on June 11, 2010: |
julesrose
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A lot of waiting. We got to the embassy at 7am (interview at 8am) stood in line with others. proceeded through security. from there went down stairs. then waited for a guard to bring us up. once up in the embassy, we got in line to receive a number. then sat and waited till that number was called. Finally ours was. when we got to the booth to get our papers reviewed before the interview, we were asked if we had paid the fees, no I hadn't, but no one had said anything till that point. he informed me that last week the Visa Fee jumped to $350 not $131 (which is what my letter had said). I left my poor fiance in the embassy, ran to find an ATM. Locked my account- too high withdrawal. Ran to the hotel where my dad was staying .....drove around to find a bank, got the money. went back to the embassy (it\\\'s been an hour). go through security and run to find my fiance. Paid the fees and went back to continue review of our papers. after that we sat back down in the waiting room then ... read complete review
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| Vancouver, Canada | Review #6187 on June 10, 2010: |
Beth and John
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My experience was exactly as described in previous reviews. Allowed in 15 minutes before the appointment. Security station inside hte door. Escorted elevator ride to the visa section. 2nd security station. A short wait to be called to a window to submit the documentation. Sit back down unti the rest of the appointees had submitted their documents, then called to a 2nd window for the interview.
The interviewer was friendly and disarming. He never even asked for primary evidence of our meeting within the last 2 years. The only hiccup was that I needed to get certified copies of beth's divorce (originals were not acceptable)
I returned once I had them (no appointment required), went straight through to the 1st window, and was approved on the spot. Visa in my hands 2 days later. This step was by far the easiest and least stressful.
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