Chile US Consulate Reviews
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|  Review #10367 on September 11, 2012: |
Christy04
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This is a general review of my experience as the petitioner; I was not present at the interview.
Setting up the interview was a frustrating process. My fiance never received his packets of instructions from the Consulate. The only reason we knew about the interview at all is because I emailed them a couple weeks prior to make a general inquiry about the status of his case. They emailed me back about 2-business days later and forwarded the interview letter (date and time), with no other information. This was 11 days before the intended interview. I wrote them back to ask what should be done to acquire the information, but they never responded.
Luckily, my fiance was able to set up the medical appointment not too long after we found out about the interview. He explained the situation to the doctor (the man, the woman was out sick) who was both very flexible in setting up the appointment and able to provide the necessary medical forms. While in Santiag... read complete review
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| Review #10143 on August 7, 2012: |
laurabrew
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The consulate was really great. My only criticism would be that you can't call them directly, any questions have to go through email. In the final steps of the process they answered my questions within 24 hours, but in the first stages, before we had a case number, they took a week or more.
I went in to the embassy twice. I (the sponsoring citizen) live in Chile so it's been a lot easier for us. First I had to go to pick up the instruction packet because it took so long. We received our 2nd NOA in mid May and by July we still didn't have the packet, so I called the NVC and they told me to contact the consulate, which I did, and the consulate told me I could pick it up there. Funny how the same day I picked it up the package arrived at our house! The first time I went in the morning when they do tourist visas and the place was packed. But when we went back for our interview on a Monday at 2pm (they gave us one month to prepare everything, it was stressful but we did it!) there w... read complete review
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| Chile | Review #9632 on May 8, 2012: |
Matt & Rocio
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I attended the interview with my wife and step-daughter. Their interview was scheduled for 2pm. We arrived at the main entrance around 1:30pm. There was another person being processed so we had to wait about 5 minutes and then they let us in. We were given number 4 and after going through a metal detector and handing over cell phones we proceeded to the consulate section of the Embassy. There we waited until 2pm when two of the windows opened, #7 and #8. It took about 15 minutes for them to process those that were ahead of us. When they called us up to the window they reviewed our packets and asked a few simple questions like had my wife ever applied for a visa before or if she had ever been to the US. She told the woman that she had applied for a Tourist Visa but was denied. She then asked for the medical results and any other documents we wanted to provide. We gave her the medical results along with about a dozen photos and some credit card statements that showed charges from both my... read complete review
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| Chile | Review #9352 on March 20, 2012: |
Kay&Jon
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Jon's (Chilean beneficiary) review of the embassy...
I got to the embassy at 1:20pm my interview was at 2:00. I was by myself waiting outside. At 1:30 two couples showed up to get in line for the K-1 visa as well. The security guy opened the door at 1:35. He asked me to go in and told us to take out any cell phones or electronic device and I had to give it to them. Then I had to walk through the metal detector. He gave me two numbers. One was red for my locker number one was yellow (Number 1) for the number of my place in line for the interview. Then I went outside to the courtyard. It was a huge place but there you can see a path to the consulate. In front of the door that says "Consulado" there was another security guy who told me to take a seat and wait for my number to be called. After I walked into the room nobody was there. There were just three girls (Chilean) at a desk working quietly on paperwork but it had nothing to do with me. I took a seat in fr... read complete review
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| Guangzhou, China | Review #8970 on January 6, 2012: |
Steve and Jing
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My fiance's interview was scheduled for the beginning of the new year. She had to show up the day before to hand in her paparwork which took 4 hours to do and then was scheduled the next day at 7:30 AM to wait in line for what would be another 3 hours for a 5 minute interview. While the whole point is for Visa approval which was relatively easy  the process of getting to that interview was ridiculous. She even had to go through the Immigrant line even though this is a nonimmigrant visa. That was confusing in itself. All-in-all we are happy. She has the visa. But if you have to go through any interview process at all here, please be well prepared and EARLY.
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