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| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  Review #32682 on November 7, 2023: |
Pconde619
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The process was very smooth and easy. Everyone is extremely helpful and organized.
| | | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Review #32612 on October 19, 2023: |
VANZIG
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| | | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Review #32589 on October 16, 2023: |
juliagus
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Our interview time was at 7:40am however like most things in Brazil, no one cares about your appointment time and it's first come first serve. We arrived about an hour early, 6:50am and there was already a massive line for tourist visa people and on the other side of the street, about a 8-person line for immigration. We sort of stood around there for a few minutes because our slot was only at 7:40, however based on our experience at the ACS fingerprinting place where it was a zoo, we figured it wouldn't hurt to pop in line with the rest of the immigration people. Fast forward to 7:10am and now they're letting people in and no one looked twice at my husband and he was the 10th person inside the embassy.
The Staff: The attendants are rude, it's simply who they are. They're rude at the fingerprinting place, they're rude at the embassy. You just have to be nice to them regardless.
The People: The people who are in there with you are also rude? It's like they're all chickens with their heads cut off and running around. They skip you in line because they think they're more important, they throw their papers at the staff and ask them if they have everything. Even though they give you a piece of paper with all the documents you will need and the specific order to sort the papers in order to advance to the interview. People have no sense of personal space and some lady even kicked my husband while waiting.
The Interview: The actual interview took less than 2 minutes, they asked my husband 5 questions and he was on his way.
The Questions:
É o primeiro casamento seu e de sua esposa? (Is this your first marriage)
Você já esteve nos Estados Unidos ou já viveu em outro país? (Have you ever been to the U.S. or lived in another country)
O que sua esposa faz? (What does your wife do for a living)
Quem é "Bob"? (Who is "Bob")
*"Bob" is my dad who is our co-sponsor
Sua esposa já te visitou após vocês casarem? (Has your wife ever visited you here after you married)
*The interviewer didn't realize that we have lived together in Brazil since we got married. My husband clarified that to him
That was it, he handed my husband a paper with some info saying "You're approved" and a link to track the passport.
Overall it was a decent experience, we arrived at 6:50am and he got out at around 9:00am. It would have taken him less time but he had many people cut in front of him during the separating the papers stage. Your appointment time doesn't matter and if you just get in line no one will care. So now we're waiting to pick up his passport at the consulate near us!
| | | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Review #32548 on September 30, 2023: |
Isabella B
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My experience at Rio Consulate was really good. My interview was schedule for 7:20 am I got there around 6:40 am. When it was 7 am, some employees came out and started organizing the huge line of people waiting outside. I stopped one of them and said I had an interview for K1 Visa, he scanned my passport, wrote something on the ASC sticker, put a green plastic inside of my passport and told me to go inside.
After going through the security, a security guard saw the green thing inside my passport and told me go to the second floor. When I got there, another employee gave me a sheet containing the order that they wanted the documents and told me to organize it. After couple of minutes he called me back and checked everything. He told me to sit on the chairs right in front of the interview windows. After a while I was called to go in the first window, where another employee recheck all the documents and ask a few questions. When she was done, she handed me a sheet that talks about the legal rights for victims of domestic violence and told me to wait for the interview. As soon as I left the first booth, the consular office called me in another window, collected my fingerprints,the asked me to take the oath and the interview started, in portuguese.
Questions:
1. Who is sponsoring your visa?
2. Have you both had any previous marriages?
3.How did you meet?
4. Has he already come to Brazil?
Visa approved.
He handed me a flyer containing informations on how to track the visa and my original birth certificate.
I left the consulate exactly 1 hour after I went in.
Every employee I talked to was very polite.
| | | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Review #32533 on September 27, 2023: |
Bh_sarah
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Interview was scheduled for 7:20 am, arrived there at 6:45 am. I knew I didn't have to stay in line with the tourist visa applicants to I went straight to the main door with other K1 applicants. At 7 am, an employee started organizing the line and there was a line only for immigrant visas (K1 is processed in the IV section). They scanned our passports (the sticker that the ASC/CASV places on it) and asked if we had had our medical.
Then we were taken to the second floor, to a small room with chairs and interview booths. They gave us a sheet with the order we needed to organize the documents and called by name for a document triage first. They put our documents in a red transparent folder in order and tell us to sit in line. Then we are, one by one, called to a booth where another person checks all our documents, asks a few questions, and return originals/what isn't needed. Then they tell us to wait that the consul will call us by name for the interview.
The interview was quick. 2 minutes tops.
Questions asked:
- Do you confirm that all documents and information submitted are true?
- Have you ever been to US? For how long?
- When did you come back from Canada (they knew I lived in Canada for 3 years)?
- Who is sponsoring your visa? [This question took me by surprise because was asked in English, not Portuguese, and I continued the interview in English]
- What's your fiancé's profession?
- When and how did you meet?
- Did he ever visit you in Brazil and for how long?
- Have you had any previous marriages?
He then returned my original birth certificate and said visa approved!
All went well, this whole thing took 1h30 but the interview was just a few minutes.
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