United Kingdom US Consulate Reviews
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| London, United Kingdom |  Review #1379 on March 15, 2007: |
featherB
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My interview was scheduled for 8am (!) and I wanted to get there in plenty of time, because I was hoping that 8 o'clock would be the earliest interview 'slot' (looks like I was right), and that the sooner I got there, the less queueing would be involved both inside and outside the building. I left the house at 7am, was on a bus by 7:05, and getting off the bus (rather bleary-eyed - not much sleep last night!) on Park Lane at 7:18.... then went to get some cash out (all I had on me was the $100 visa fee and the money for the courier - I wanted snack-buying money for the long wait ahead!), and after a quick trip to Starbucks to get a latte & a croissant to eat in the queue, I got to the Embassy by about 7:30.
I followed some people round the edges of the security fences etc, but it turned out I was on the wrong side of the building (the Upper Brook Street side, closest to Oxford Street - although I'm sure it wouldn't have taken long for the queue to start stretchin... read complete review
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| London, United Kingdom | Review #1377 on March 15, 2007: |
Selry
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Fairly clear instructions, but due to renovations, signage rather poor. Leave your electronics in the hotel! Were called up to window 14 within 5 minutes of arriving. First interview (for document checking) went fast, paid $100 at window 12, no 'pay in' slip needed. Waited an hour for Second interview at window 16. As the American citizen I was asked to sit down so my fiance could answer what turned out to be three questions: where did you meet? what does your fiancee do for a living? What will you do for work in the US?. Approved! All parties very nice, friendly and helpful.
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| London, United Kingdom | Review #1360 on March 10, 2007: |
JimBob67
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Arrived around 10AM, interview time was 10:30AM. Was a queue when I arrived. Waited outside in the cold for almost 3 hours - apparantly there was a power cut in the morning and also 80 scouts and any US citizens renewing their passports had to go into the Embassy before any of the applicants, which was really frustrated -- every time their line filled up, they were just let straight in. I moved in the queue about 6ft in 3 hours. And I don't know if that was because people were being let in at the front or just because people in the queue were just bunching up because of the cold.
However, once I got inside it was pretty painless. Went to the first window after about 10mins sitting & waiting. Spoke to a guy who asked for the ticket I had been given, birth certificate and police certificate. Took fingerprints & asked me to goto window 12 to pay the visa processing fee. He gave me my X-rays when I got back and also the courier fee form and asked me to fill this in whilst wa... read complete review
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| London, United Kingdom | Review #1347 on March 6, 2007: |
maore
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DV visa interview:
+ To put it in a simple way everything went fine until the interview -
officier grilled my wife for 30 minutes then invite me alone for another 10 minutes and bang guess what blue sheet with request for further evidence of a relationship, my comment about this particular officer is simple : the guy was blatantly racist (why you married a chinese ? what kind of question is it ? if we were a couple of whites I do not think he would have some of the question he asked) nothing more nothing less.
+ finally we sent all the possible evidences (pictures/emails/mobile bills/utilities bills) three days later
=> No acknowledgement they received the evidences and no reply from various mail I sent.
I do not mind to have the visa refused but keeping people out of the blue for such long period (interview was in January) is unacceptable, I paid for a service and I am not getting a very value for money.
I checked other ... read complete review
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| London, United Kingdom | Review #1343 on March 4, 2007: |
brinkson
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March 2,2007 I went with my fiancee to her interview with her.They had no problem letting me in with her due to that i'm a american anyway and i'm her sponser.We waited a 1 hour in the line.Once inside it went very quick only sat down for 10 mins.Then when we were called up to the first desk we spoke to a very polite englishman after he looked over her papers made sure everything was ok.We sat back down and called again in 2 min then spoke with the consulate Officer.He was very nice joked around with us we were all laughing and chatting more then conducting business.So thne he only asked us one question(how did we meet)and also wanted to see a pay stub from my job because I was at my job for less then a year good thing I there because I didn't have a pay stub but I showed him my work ID and badge so he accepted that.Then he said everything was fine and congrats to you both.So I think that embassy is very accomdating the staff was all nice and helped us out alot the only thing thats a ... read complete review
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