Ecuador US Consulate Reviews
Average Rating: 3.8
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119 Review(s)
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador |  Review #5348 on December 3, 2009: |
MoonStar9913
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Hello everyone, I have finally gotten around to posting my review of Guayaquil. We had an appointment scheduled on November 30th, 2009 at 8:30am. We arrived a little before 8am and outside the consulate there are three “entrance-gates” with non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas, and US citizen services written above. There were some people waiting there so I wasn’t sure what to do but we worked our way to the front and asked a man working for the consulate and he told us to go on through. After the preliminary security check, they let us on through and we entered the building but there was no electricity so we had to wait almost an hour until they fixed the generator because we hadn’t passed through the metal detector yet but we talked with the guard while we waited and though at first he seemed very serious, by the end he was cracking jokes.
After the electricity came back on they told us to go upstairs and take a seat. (We had turned nothing... read complete review
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador | Review #5158 on October 29, 2009: |
Zee21
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Hello all, We had our interview on 10-26-09 in the consulate in Guayaquil. We arrived the day before and stayed in a hotel across the street. The night before we decided to go out for dinner so we grabbed a taxi and started looking. The city of Guayaquil is dirty and a scary. Crime is so bad right now that the military has started helping the local police with road blocks.We were stopped twice and I was taken out of the taxi and searched with my hand against the car. The next morning our interview was at 8:30am so we showed up at 8:00am. There was a line of about 50 people. I guess everyone had the same interview time. We were searched and told to go upstairs and wait. We had a guy from the consulate come and explain to all of us about the process. There was about 35 people in the upstairs room. Then about a hour later the guy that does the interview came upstairs and explained the process to us again. He also told us that he does the interview and his partner does them also but she is... read complete review
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador | Review #4679 on July 3, 2009: |
PDXbicycleboy
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· 1 person found this review helpful
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*I am following up on a previous review (interview was November 2008 and case was put into administrative processing) regarding this consulate now that the visa has been issued.*
Where to start? I am so FIRED UP right now that I don't even feel like I want to submit a review of this circus (yes, you can hear the circus tune playing in the background right now) of a U.S. Consulate because of the RIDICULOUS hoops and UNETHICAL practices these bunch of gutless clowns put us through. Mind you, this wasn't a couple interactions we had with these jokers; they demonstrated through these interactions that this behavior was standard operational procedure for this dive. Let's just put it this way, the Registro Civil of Ecaudor provides better customer service than the Guayaquil Consulate (yes, I had to GO to the Civil Registro to "experience" getting a Cedula for our son in order for the Guayaquil Consulate's doctor to even do the DNA test that had been sitting in his office ... read complete review
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| Review #4538 on June 8, 2009: |
mamaronga
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
We came in taxi and arrived at 6:30 am with all our papers. We were staying at a very cheap hotel that we recommend, Hotel Chile which is on Portete and Chile right on the Plaza España ($7 a night, with a fan). We had to come a day early because you can ONLY pay the $131 at Banco Guayaquil IN Guayaquil itself, not in Quito or anywhere else, so definately plan to come a day early, and a day that the banks are open! We waited in the non-immigrant line, which was fine, but we later realized we could have waited in the resident visa line which was called in first and went faster. They made my fiancée (Ecuadorian) leave his fanny pack behind because it was too much like a “bag”. Note, they don´t let any type of bags or purses or backpacks in! I carried my passport in a very small passport pouch. Other than that we just carried our papers in our hands. We entered without any problems, no one questioned me entering (even though they announce many times that ONLY visa applicants can en... read complete review
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador | Review #4499 on June 2, 2009: |
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WE ARRIVED AT 7am FOR AN 8:30 APPT, THERE WERE TWO LINES-NON IMMIGRANT AND IMMIGRANT, WE WERE NOT SURE WHICH ONE TO STAND IN, SO WE CHOSE THE NON-IMMIG BECAUSE THAT IS THE SECTION THAT THE K VISA IS LISTED IN ON THE US EMB GUAY WEBSITE--HOWEVER WHEN WE ASKED THE EMBASSY WORKER, HE TOLD US TO MOVE TO THE IMMIGRANT LINE AND HE LET US MOVE TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE!!HE WAS VERY NICE. ANOTHER WORKER TOLD US THAT WE HAD TO LEAVE THE BAG HOLDING ALL OUR PROOF OUTSIDE OF THE EMBASSY(WE HAD A LOT OF PROOF)-SHE WAS NICE AS WELL IN TELLING US THIS--SHE EVEN APOLOGIZED TO US----THEN WE WENT IN AND WENT STRAIGHT TO WINDOW 5 AND WAITED ABOUT 2 MINUTES AND THE EMBASSY WORKER ASKED US TO TELL OUR NAME SO HE COULD EXPEDITE OUR CASE. THEN WE WAITED 30 MINUTES AND A WOMAN AT WINDOW 5 CALLED US AND ASKED FOR OUR PROOF--ONLY 08 TAXES , PICTURES AND THE MEDICAL RESULTS AND IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT THE WOMAN ASKED HOW LONG WE HAVE BEEN TOGETHER(WE DID NOT EVEN REALIZE THAT THIS WOULD BE OUR ONLY QUESTION!!!... read complete review
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