El Salvador US Consulate Reviews
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| Review #11489 on February 17, 2013: |
Joe garcia
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El Salvador | Review #10776 on October 31, 2012: |
Jose Vasquez
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El Salvador Embassy= Nightmare!
I am writing this review on behalf of a cousin that just went through the process of an F-2A visa in El Salvador; "Let me start by saying that I feel sorry for the people that are currently waiting for a visa or on interview appointment in El Salvador, this embassy is a nightmare, the people that work there are inefficient and incompetent, it seems like they don't know what they are doing or how to do their work. I had to go through 4 interviews and spent hundreds of dollars in phone calls to get my visa,I could not believe it. First interview, I was missing a document, second interview; the translations were not correct, could of have told me this in the first interview. Third interview, the documents were too old, past the 30 days allowed. Fourth interview, finally got my visa approval, after more than a year of waiting and going through interviews.
What a bureaucracy! this is not correct, the embassy in El Salvador needs a complete revamping and put people in place that know what they are doing. My advice to you is to be prepared with all the documents and make sure they are all recent and up-to-date and of course, have a lot of patience
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El Salvador | Review #10129 on August 6, 2012: |
mawicho
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El Salvador | Review #9901 on June 28, 2012: |
Snsisgarbage
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Complaining and stating the obvious wont help or change the fact that the government is inefficient. They arent good at what they do and they are always changing the rules and the prices. So bring $100 extra before you do the process and email them to cover your but before you go so that you can have proof that they are full of it. What really bugs me is that the embassy/consulate just changed the rules and didnt inform us or update it on their website in a timely maner so we showed up to our interview and got blindsided and to fix the whole thing its going to be another 3 months. MAKE SURE THAT YOU BRING A BIRTH CERTIFICATE ISSUED in the LAST 3 MONTHS this shouldnt be an issue because the NVC doesnt require it and because it doesnt prove a national security issue. a birth certificate is a birth certificate.
follow this link and your good also bring tons of effidence that your a couple eventhough you may have children together and did a cbra a birth abroad this same documentation that you used to prove your a couple for the birth abroad isnt enough for an IR-1 visa I dont know why that is but it wasnt for us. Also they almost always want a second sponsor evnethough you make enough money they think they can over-ride the government rules so be prepared with that or you might be waiting 3 plus months to go back again and do the whole thing over.
I also hate the fact that they have a thrid party processing the documents that should be disbanded as a national security threat. Its a company called Cargo Express. Before my interview again I am going to have my wife go to them to make sure we have everything correct.
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/elsavador/467224/iv_stuff/Revised_IV_instructions_2_docs.pdf
http://www.ustraveldocs.com/sv/index.html
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El Salvador | Review #8540 on October 20, 2011: |
efyl
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Let me separate our experience with USCIS and NVC from the embassy and make a quick comment on the former two. First of all, it would make sense if there were just one organization doing this. Secondly and perhaps more importantly, there really is no excuse for the whole process not being digital in this year, the year 2011. I know they have pilot programs going n oand it's great that the electronic payment option is currently available, but this is one of the last purely paper-based bureaucracies and having to submit duplicate documents should be unnecessary.
Regarding the embassy. I'm going to give them some slack and my "3" rating will frighteningly bring up their average. A friend of mine who works in another embassy told me that the consular unit is rather small in El Salvador; and it undoubtedly must be overwhelmed with applications since a quarter of the country already lives in the US. That said, I think those excuses only go so far. Part of the measure of your competency is in how you deal with overwhelming circumstances. Why do I read about people in other countries who were able to pick their visa up a few days after the interview and my spouse waited 5 weeks from the day of the interview to receive it back via mail. Crazy. If you look at the ratings on VisaJourney.com, El Salvador basically has about the lowest embassy rating in the world (excluding a few consulates/embassies where only 2 or 3 people have given feedback). That in itself should make one cautious about dealing with this embassy; and should make their superiors in Washington consider making some changes. That said, I will give them this--my wife, who speaks fluent English, felt like she was treated well enough while at the embassy.
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