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| Nicaragua |  Review #2798 on April 28, 2008: |
Milton y Claudia
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
First of all, for all questions regarding the status of your visa
you can email to ManaguaConsularIV@state.gov in the subject put your case number, and aTTN: Blanca Perez
She was a big help for me on all the process since my case was expedited
she gave me a big help on questions and answers that i had.
So, we arrived @ the Managua Embassy Gate @ 7:15am on April 28 2008, we where on the inmigrant visa line. We waited there for 15 to 20 minutes, then they passed us to the security checkpoint where you have to leave you cell phone an other stuff that they dont allow to enter. Then they gave us a piece of paper that said IV (Inmigrant Visa). Then we moved to another security checkpoint, and they verified and told us to wait on a bench ( We waited for another 20 minutes).Then we were called, we moved to another area and they asked for the
piece of paper that they gave us (IV) Green colored paper, the gave us a number
206, we waited there for 40 minutes, finally they called us, they asked for the Passports, they kept my wifes and returned mine, then they gave me a piece of paper that had different type of charges she marked the ones that i had to pay, (IV Surcharged $45 & IV Fee $355= $400) so i moved to another counter to pay that (Only US Dollars are accepted, if you go with local currencie Cordobas you wont be available to pay. So i paid the fees they gave me 2 receipts, i returned to the counter where my wife was been asked for documents, i returned the receipt of $400, then she asked for all documents she asked my wife. How did she meet me? When and Where? When & Where we got married? They also asked her if i had children? When i got divorced?
Then she told my wife that was all for the moment, we returned to our seats
snd waited for 40 minutes more, and they called her again by name, and they took her fingerprints, she returned to the seat, and waited for 30 to 40 minutes more, then the consul called us, she had the whole packet, she told my wife to swear that all responses will be only the truth ( My wife agreed) then
she asked my wife how we knew each other?from where i was from? Where i worked? When & where we got married? She saw about 4 or 5 pictures from our album, and asked her details of the pictures, then she said Congratulations your Visa is Approved! Yeaaaaaa 
Since my case was Expedited i asked the consul if they can give us her passport with the visa before may 5 2008, she told us that was no problem, the visa will be ready on wednesday may 30 2008 after 3pm you can pick it up here in the embassy with this receipt that im giving you!
I expected little less time like 1 hour, but we where there more then 2 hours,
there where only 3 persons before us.
They treat us with respect and i give them a rating of 5!
| | | Nicaragua | Review #1572 on May 7, 2007: |
Justo/Sheyla
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· 2 people found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
After NVC sent our case to the Managua Consulate, I begun to make contact to the consular section by e-mail. They replied promptly to my questions. Blanca Perez is the Consular Officer whom I kept contact with. Her e-mail is consularmanagua@state.gov, or PerezBR@state.gov. Remember to always give your case number when you make your inquiry.
When your case gets to Managua, they send Instruction Packet to the beneficiary by Correos de Nicaragua. It can take a week, two, or a month. Don´t let this happen. As soon as you find out that your case has been received in Managua, ask the beneficiary to go to the US Embassy and pick the packet. They know that the Post Service in Nicaragua is slow or inefficient. So they will give you the instructions and answer any question on your case. This is what my wife did and we saved ourselves three weeks.
In the instruction packet there is a list of all documents the Embassy needs from the beneficiary. It´s usually the same documents for all visa types, but this may vary and they should let you know about.
-Birth certificates
-Police record
-Medical Exams
-Marriage certificate.
Beneficiary has to go to Registro Nacional, where they will produce all this documents for you. Pay extra so you can get them faster.
Call a doctor from the list to set up the appoinment. My wife had his medical results in three hours. Expect up to 4 vaccines to be given by the doctor, no matter if beneficiary has records of them. Have $200.00 ready for the medical examination.
My wife didn´t have to present I-864 because I had submitted it to NVC.
In K-visas you will need I-134 and they will take a look at it. Include a letter from your employer, letter from your bank, copy of your last income tax return, and last three payment receipts from your work. I didn´t have to go through this since I had sent it to NVC already.
After you gather all the documents from the checklist in Instructions Packet, you have to fax the Consulate letting them know you have everything with you.
They will call back with the date and time of the interview.
They call cell phones, so if this is more convinient to the beneficiary, give the cell number.
My wife was scheduled at 8:00 am. She got there half hour before. At 8:00 she headed to a waiting area for Inmigrant and Non-Inmigrant Visa applicants. An Consular Officer asked for her documents, Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates, Police records, etc.
I sent my wife a file folder with copies of all documents I had sent to USCIS and NVC. Organize every piece of document you need for the interview and keep copies to yourself. The purpose of this is that when they ask for a particular document, you would have them handy. I strongly suggest this, so your interview will no be delayed.
Half hour later they called my wife and she was taken to the Consul.
Here, my wife spent 5 or 6 minutes. The Consul took a glance at the binder I had made with e-mails, phone bills, money wires receipts, photos, etc. She didn´t spent much time on it and then asked my wife where do I live, what do I do for a living, how long have we been married and who prepared the file folder and binder. She was impressed with the way we organized everything. It made things easier. The Consul then congratulated my wife and told her to go the Post Office in a week to pick up her passport.
The whole thing took approximateley 45 minutes. They didn´t ask about I-864 or my current financial information.
Overall, my wife experience was very good, considering she had stressed out too much the days before the interview.
My advice is to have all required documents on hand and organized. Have anything that will proof your relationship and organize them too. Even if they don´t go through it, just do it to be safe. Be natural and patient... and confident.
Don´t hesitate to write or call the embassy. They will answer all your doubts or give you information before the interview.
Also, I forgot to mention that after my wife sent the fax, she was notified of the time and date of the interview the next day, and the interview took place ten days later.
| | | Nicaragua | Review #496 on April 2, 2006: |
rjfg1
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When I was going through my K-1 Visa Process there wasn't any information on the Managua Embassy in Nicaragua. So I'm going to make my review a little more detail and try to be informative on the whole process. Hopes this helps some of you out there.
After I received my NOA2 (Nov. 29, 2005) from the California Service Center my case headed of to the Visa National Center. From everything that I heard the Visa National Center was suppose to mail my case to the Managua embassy very quickly (2 Weeks or so). So about 2 weeks after receiving my NOA2 I decided to contact the embassy, via e-mail, to ask if they have received my case (Dec. 12,2005). They replied back in about 2 days telling me that they already have received my case. The embassy in the e-mail also gave me our case # and told us that our interview would be Feb. 21, 2006, they also said that they had already mailed my fiancee the materials she'll need for the interview (Packet 3). I was rather disappointed that we had to wait so long for our interview date, I was hoping that my Fiancee would receive her interview sometime in January.
I arrived to visit my fiancee in Nicaragua on January 12, 2006 and her packet 3 material from the embassy still had not arrived. I was rather worried since it had been about a month since the embassy had e-mailed me telling me that they had already mailed out Packet 3. Maybe the problem was that my fiancee lived in Chontales and the Nicaraguan mail system rarely goes out there. Thankfully a few days later the packet finally arrived at her house.
Packet 3:
The materials that came inside the envelope included the following items:
- Forms DS156 & DS156K (Very simple forms to fill out)
- A check list of items that my financee had to bring to the interview (Medical Exam results, Police certificate, 2 passport type fotos, Birth Certificate (from the Managua National Center!!), forms DS156 & DS156K, form I-134 (affidavit support), proof of relationship and the $100.00 receipt for the interview fee from bancentro.
- Appointment Letter (stating the date of the interview)
- A list of Certifiade doctors for the medical exam
The Medical Exam:
About 2 weeks after receiving our Packet 3 we headed to Managua for my fiancee medical exam. The medical exam was pretty simple, we paid $180.00 and the whole process took about 2 hours. In the clinic she had to fill-out a form and answer some question about her health, they also took a blood sample and gave her 4 Vaccine shots that they said are mandatory. Then they sent us to a different clinic for her chest x-rays (whick took only 30 minutes or so). We then came back to the clinic and handed them the x-rays and they told us to come back in about 2 hours to pickup the results of her exam.
When we came back later the exams results were ready and my fiancee had passed!!! The whole medical process was very profesionally done, in no way at all was my fiancee every told to take her clothes off nor did they ever had examine any private areas.
The Police Record:
Since my fiance lived in Chontales we had to go to the department's capital city of Juigalpa. There we went to the Police Station and ask for a "Police Record", the women attending there ask us for her I.D. card and told us that the Police Record would be ready in 24 hours. Apart from the long wait at the police station it was a pretty simple process.
(Note: before going to the police station you have to go to Bancentro and pay 35.00 Cordoba fee for the police record, you'll also need an ampilified copy of your fiancee I.D. Card (front & Back)).
The I-134 form (putting together the information:
The I-134 form is the one this embassy uses for your Affavit of Support information. My I-134 package included a letter from my employer that stated the title of my position, the length of employment and my annual salary. I also had a letter from the bank (wellsfargo) that simply stated my name along with account number and the current balance of my accounts. Along with the two letters I also included my W-2 for the last 2 years (the embassy later told me that they require 3 years), I also had recent payroll check stubbs (but at the interview I forgot to submitt them).
The Interview:
As previoulsy stated our interview was on Feb. 21 at 8:00am. We traveled that morning from Chontales to Managua and ended arriving about 40 minutes late to the embassy. Luckily for us there was no line to get into the embassy. When we presented our papers to guards outside they seen that we were arriving late for our K-1 interview and quickly hurried us along.
When you first go into the embassy you have to pass through Airport types of security measures. Once you are inside they have a waiting area for a preliminary screening process where they ask you questions regarding your visit and then they inspect your paper work to make sure they you have everthing you need before going into the Actual Main waiting room for your visa interview. Since we were late to arrive there wasn't to many people ahead of us. From what I witnessed in this prelimanary screening process they did not reject anyone from going to the Main Interview waiting room.
When it was our turn to get attended during this prelimary screening they seen that we were late for our K-1 interview and did not ask us any further question and they quickly proceeded to escort us to the main interview waiting room. We passed another group of people in an outside waiting area (I think these were people who were there applying for a regular Tourist Visa)and then we had to pass another type of Airport type of security before they actually let us in to the Main Interview wating room. Once we were inside they told us to take a seat and our name would be called.
The people that worked at the embassy were behind a glass window. The embassy had about 8 or so windows that were attending visa request (4 for Non-Immigrant visas(tourist visas) and 4 for immigrant visas (ie K-1)).
We waited for about 2 hours before we being called up to a window. The lady there had our case in hand and told us to hand over to her our paper. First the DS-156 & DS156k Forms, then my fiancee birth certicate (We had gotten her birth certifcate from our town's Mayor's office and the lady at the embassy told us that she needed a birth certicate from the Managua National Center. Luckily they let us submitt the birth certificate that we brouhght), the medical exam results, Police Records, Proof of our relationship (we submitted some picture, e-mail records, telephone records and some of my passport entry record from my prior visits) and finally our I-134 packet (with all the items mentioned aboved). The lady reviewed all of our paper work and told us to take a seat.
We again waited for about 1 1/2 hours before being called again, this time at a different window and by a Men. When he called us up to the window he simply asked me in english several easy question about our relationship.....when and how did whe meet?, Have either of us ever been married? If either of us had any children. After answering his question he gave us a card/slip which is for the Nicaraguan Mail Service and told us that our case was approved!!! and that her passport will arrive in the mail with the Visa inside. With the card that he gave us we went to the a table that is for the Nicaraguan Mail Serice that was setup inside the waiting area. We handed the lady the card and she told us that we can pickup her passport along with the packet 4 at the juigalpa Post office in about 4 days. She gave us a pickup slip and told us to present the pickup slip and her I.D. along with the equivalent of $8.00 in order to pickup her items at the post office.
Basicly the interview process at the embassy is pretty straight forward. If you have all your papers in line then I do not see a reason why you should have any problems. The hard part is just gathering the paper work. I did not give it a 5 rating because the waiting time at the interview is pretty bad.
Note: We noticed that almost everyone applying for a immigrant visa was approve (out of about 30 cases I think only 2 were denied).
I hopes this helps and best of luck to everyone out there.
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