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| Argentina |  Review #4639 on June 25, 2009: |
matheu
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My appointmet was at 1pm. You have to enter without making the line and they will give u a number. They will call you 1st to get all your papers and a 2nd time for the interview. I had to wait 1 hour and a half cause it was very croudy.
It took this woman 5 minutes to ask, where did I met him,when did we get engage, what did I do the last times I was there on my J1 and when was the last time I saw my fiance. and that was all. she loved all the pictures and laugh at some of them.
in 3 to 5 business day they will send the visa.
| | | Argentina | Review #4454 on May 26, 2009: |
matu&kris
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My fiance went by himself to the interview. We rehearsed all possible questions beforehand, just to prepare and went over all the paperwork. His interview was at 1 in the afternoon. An older lady did the interview and he waited about an hour before she called him in. He said she was very friendly and seemed very happy for both of us. She asked him to tell her how we met and a little bit about our history as a couple. She looked over the pictures and the phone records. She asked him what my parents names were and if I had brothers and sisters and where I work and what I do. She asked him what was the first thing he was going to do when he gets to the US and he said "get married"javascript:emoticon('')She also asked him where he was going to live.
Then she looked over the paperwork, had him swear to tell the truth and then sign a few papers. At some point they took his fingerprints. She said all was in order, gave him some paperwork back and told him they would be mailing a sealed envelope and the passport with the visa in 3-5 business days.
Overall he said the interview was very easy and straightforward.
| | | Argentina | Review #4144 on March 28, 2009: |
M+J
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My husband and I recently went to our interview at the embassy in Buenos Aires on March 26th 2009. We arrived outside and even though the guards aren't very helpful telling you where you need to go we finally found out which window to go visit to find out where we needed to go. Once we went inside they have an airport security type of thing where you have to put your phone and anything metal inside a plastic box and they put it through the scanner. Once you have done that, they will ask you to walk through a metal detector and then they will give you a number to pick up your items when you are finished with your interview. They will keep your phone, but I guess that is because they don't want you to make calls inside the building for security reasons. You will then walk through a door and up a hill that will lead you to another door and again to another window. That person will tell you to walk over to a desk and take a number. Once you have done that you will walk through another door (yes, another one) and then you will see a lot of seats. You will then wait for them to display your number on a screen. When they display your number you will go to the window and give the person there all your documents. They will check to see if you have everything in order and then ask you to go back and sit down and wait for the consular officer to call you for your interview. We had to wait for about 30-45 minutes before she called our name. First, you have to scan your fingers and once done with that have to take a sworn oath that everything in the documents is correct. Then she started asking questions and going over the documents. She asked about 6-7 questions to both of us. She asked such things as...When was the first time I came here (husband/U.S. citizen)? When did we get married?, When did we file our petition?, What was our wedding date?, How did we meet?, What we did for work?
When she had finished asking us questions she then said that everything looked in order and that we were approved. The woman was very nice throughout the entire interview. Remember to take a glance at the paperwork that the interviewer has as it may ease your mind depending on what it says on it. I saw it, my wife didn't, but it said approved on the top sheet of the paperwork that she was reading. I'm not sure what was approved but that seems like too much of a coincidence to be approved and have our paperwork that says that as well. Anyway, after she said we were approved she told us to go back outside and head over to the DHL window to pay them to deliver her passport. She gave us all our original documents back and only kept her passport because she explained to us that they needed to keep it to apply the visa to it. We then headed outside and went to the DHL window and paid the lady. We didn't have it delivered as it would have taken too long for them to deliver it but instead had the option to pick it up at another DHL location if we wanted. That's what we did because it shaves off a few days of waiting and we already had our plane tickets to the U.S. so the sooner we could get the visa, the better. After it was said and done we had no complaints about the interview, process or interviewer.
| | | Argentina | Review #3938 on February 12, 2009: |
K and R
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My fiance's interview was scheduled for 2pm. We arrived around 1:30 and they told us we could enter in fifteen minutes, so we waited outside until 1:45 and then they let us in.
There were hardly any other people there the entire time we were there (which was about 2 hours). By the time we left there was only one other person waiting to be seen by a consular officer.
A little after 2pm they called us to window 6 and asked for all of the original documents. We handed them over and they told us to have a seat and wait to be called by our number at window 5. There was only one consular officer doing interviews and there were maybe 4 people ahead of us, so we had to wait approximately two hours. Then they called us (by name, not by the number they had given us) to window five.
The interview went by super fast. It took maybe a total of 10 minutes. The consular officer was very nice and smiling the whole time, which made us feel a little more at ease. She directed questions to both of us, switching back and forth between english and spanish. She asked us things like:
When and were did you first meet?
When was the second time you met?
When was the second time you came to Argentina (to me)?
When and where do you plan to get married?
Then later she asked: do you plan to get married here or in the US? I guess that was a trick question since the K1 means we have to get married in the US and we had already answered that one anyway.
Is my fiance nervous about getting married?
How does his family feel about him leaving Argentina?
What do you do for a living (to my fiance)?
What do I do for a living (to me)?
Will I be providing the sole source of income in the US?
That was about it, then she said "you can both relax, everything looks in order, I just have to make some notes." At which point I starting crying from relief (we have been waiting for this visa for over a year and a half). Then she said congratulations and asked if any of my fiance's family will likely be applying for a tourist visa to visit us. She told us to expect the passport with the visa within 3-5 days.
Then we went outside to the DHL window to pay for the passport delivery.
Throughout all of it she was very nice and friendly.
I agree with others who have said before that the instructions for the packet 3 are unclear and repetitive, but as far as our experience in person goes, it was all very positive.
| | | Argentina | Review #3838 on January 23, 2009: |
mich08
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My fiance went for his interview and said the place was practically empty when he got there. He was taken to one woman who asked him for each of his documents one by one. When they got to asking him for his birth certificate, he realized he had somehow forgotten it at home, though he did have the Xerox copy of it. The strange part was that they said this was the wrong birth certificate anyway! Though this was the copy we sent with the copies of all the documents in package three. They did give us RFE's for incorrect police certificate copies in package 3 but there was no mention of this being the wrong birth document (when looking for his birth cert. we found two that his mom had...so we copied and planned on bringing the one that looked most official....apparently we thought wrong) ANYWAY. The point is, even if he HAD brought the birth certificate it would've been the wrong one and he would have been rejected on that premise. So they gave him a letter saying mail your passport and birth certificate via DHL, and the pre-paid DHL fee to mail it all back to you within 10 days to 2 weeks. Then he waited for about an hour and they summoned him for the actual interview. They asked how he met me and when he said we met while he was in the States working on a J-1 visa, and I was the boss at his second job, they rudely interrupted and 'told' him that you aren't allowed two jobs on a J-1 visa. But he insisted he could, or he wouldn't have done it, and his second job would never have hired an 'illegal' worker....(the circumstances are different for J-1's depending on who sponsors them) So the interviewer pressed that issue a little bit, commented on it to the other woman listening in at the interview, and then the interview was done. I don't even think he got to finish the story. All in all, he was at the embassy for about two hours, the interview itself being only about 10 minutes. I have to say this embassy is a real pain...Not as bad as some I know, but the instructions on packages three and four are unclear and repetitive, and the letter my fiance recieved asking for the missing documents also said it required another form mailed back with everything....something the consulate didn't even mention and wasn't give to him. He emailed asking what it was, and they answered saying "Oh, don't worry about that...just send what we told you"...Lots of unnecessary fretting came from these unclear instructions. On a positive note, after we sent in package three, emails were answered quite rapidly, within one to two days, though often those answers weren't clear or helpful either....The visa and birth certificate were sent on a Friday, recieved on Tuesday at the embassy (thanks for being closed on MLK day) and the passport containing the visa and birt cert. were returned by the following Friday!! All in all it's pretty do-able and we've got a visa!!! 
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