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Average Rating: 3.9
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568 Review(s)
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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review #32667 on November 3, 2023: |
Michael&Miguel
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Stayed at the Fairfield Marriott across the street the night before. 7am was our time. It’s a 3 minute walk to the embassy from the hotel. You arrive to a very unorganized area outside the embassy gate. Many people trying to sell you items and what not. You need to listen to the speakers that will broadcast across the road from the embassy. They will tell you what times are currently being called. Once you hear your time, simply cross the street and follow the crowd. Don’t arrive early. If you have 7am, 645am is plenty of time as nothing will happen until right at 7am. For our K1 interview, the petitioner is allowed to join inside for the process. No advance notice needed or special letter. Just cross the road and tell the first security guard you are a K1 and the petitioner is with you. Simply show your US passport for ID and you’re in. You will go through airport style security. Then to a document check where you will put everything in a specific order. After this, you go to an... read complete review
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #32646 on October 26, 2023: |
Tronwolverine
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MY fiance went to the embassy and had her interview, and is currently on "refused" status. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with the "fraud" department trying to show we have a relationship, and nothing has moved forward. Her interview was on July 22nd, I did the phone interview on August 22nd, and no action has been taken on our case since September 29th. I wasn't able to travel much due to my job being short, I am finally getting to fly down and see her next month after 25 months of not seeing her sue to work. We talk for hours a day, we email each other daily when I am at work, as my job doesn't allow me to have a phone at work. I have finally reached out to my congressman to try and see if they can help. I have been doing all I can to keep her safe. If this was fraud she would be sending me money, not me trying to help her to keep her safe.
I am tired and I don't know what to do next. Hopefully someone will, because when I offered more information they ble... read complete review
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #32645 on October 26, 2023: |
derrick and Ana
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
I wasn't there when my fiance had her appointment but she says the entire process was easy and very streamlined. She the early appointment and traffic in Bogota was still bad. She stayed in an AirBnb near the embassy just for that reason. The embassy employee was even joking with her during the appointment. She was mainly asked questions about how we met and what she knew about my kids. The interview was 15-20 minutes long and he told her congratulations you'll receive your visa in 10 days. Ana and I met online in October 2021, February 2022 I flew to Ecuador to meet her and we stayed together for a week. After that, she moved back to Venezuela which made it difficult for us to see each other. I have constantly gone to work since I was in the military. I wrote a letter to the embassy explaining my difficulties visiting Venezuela but they never read the letter.
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #32510 on September 13, 2023: |
HuevosChicle
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· 3 people found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
The only real downside for us was not being at all familiar with the embassy. We had a 7am appointment, and stayed at a hotel to the southeast of the Embassy. The entrance for visa applicants is on the north side along Avenida Carrera 50. We walked and arrived to the north side around 6:35am, and there was a large crowd waiting across the street, where there's a restaurant and photo booths, etc. We asked a police officer and they told us to wait there. A few minutes later someone announced over the loudspeaker and told everyone with several types of visa appointments at 7, 7:15, 7:30 and 7:45am to get in line along the fence and show credentials to enter.
We were right next to El Dorado and couldn't hear well, and thus were slow to react and were pretty far back in line. Eventually we made it in, were told to go to a location #3, where we were given a sticker to identify us as residential visa applicants, and waited in a separate line before eventually making it t... read complete review
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #32421 on August 22, 2023: |
Sudowpa2
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I am giving it a 4 because not all the people that are working there know the standard of procedure (SOP). When my wife left the interview 4.5 hours later. She told me that I was allowed to attend with her. We have asked many of the guards and they told us that she was the only one who could go in. I wish I could have gone in because I cooked out in the sun. Now I am sunburned. Also, why it took 4.5 hours for a 5 min interview is beyond me.
To start out with:
The embassy is very confusing when it comes to the entrances to the embassy. There are three entrances. The big one is for the people who work there, the medium size is for the US citizens and the smallest one is for the Colombians and ones who are trying to obtain a visa. They are scattered all around the huge campus with very little signage.
They do have chairs across from the entrance, but you have to pay 1.000 cop to sit on them and also it just seemed like the guys who collect the money on... read complete review
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