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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review #9023 on January 19, 2012: |
sandramor1
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My son and I were put on AP, two weeks later, I got approved but my 12 year old son was still on AP. They did not tell me why. Finally my son got approved! It was very nerve wrecking, but we made it!!
| | | Review #9000 on January 12, 2012: |
DavidKimberly
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Very easy. The lady at the first window was pretty rude and for no reason, but once she had all our documents, it got sent to the other side of the Embassy. The second lady (an American) was super nice and kept laughing at my fiance and I because we were nervous and being silly. She asked him how he knew me and if we spoke English or Spanish and didn't ask to see any more of our evidence. I think it was pretty clear when my fiance took my bag and was holding it for me. Hahah. The lady said, "You guys are SO cute!" and then happily told us our visa was approved. The whole thing took a little over 2 hours.
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #8845 on December 9, 2011: |
fdm505
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On November 8, 2011, my fiance along with her 14 year old son and 12 year old daughter all went together to the USA Embassy in Bogota for the long awaited Fiance Visa Interview. I was in the USA working that day and my 3 kids were in school in the USA that day. My fiance had scheduled the interview date online after she was confident that she had everything needed for the interview. Apparently, they have a new system for scheduling interview dates in Bogota and they are now scheduled online by the interviewee. She never received anything in the mail. I had provided her with information that I received in the mail earlier.
I had emailed her many of these VisaJourney.com reviews for K1 interviews in Bogota so she would be better prepared too.
All 3 visas (1 K1 and 2 K2 visas) were approved that same day (November 8, 2011)! Later, that same day, I purchased online 3 one way airplane tickets from Bogota to the USA.
The following week, she traveled back to Bogota and picked up all 3 Colombian passports with USA visas affixed to them. Unfortunately, all 3 visas listed the gender as female. Her son was not happy. He did not want to be a senorita in the USA. javascript:emoticon(' ')
She contacted the embassy and they scheduled another appointment for Monday the following week to correct her sons visa since the gender on it was incorrect. Apparently, an embassy employee made a mistake. The forms we submitted clearly had identified her son as a male. We were concerned since all 3 of them planned to fly to the USA 3 days after the day she was asked to return to the embassy to have the K2 visa corrected. On Monday, she returned to the embassy and dropped off her son's passport with the K2 visa attached to it. She was told that she could pick it up after it was corrected 2 days later on Wednesday (the day prior to their planned travel to the USA).
On Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, she returned to Bogota and picked up her son's Colombian passport that now contained 2 K2 visas in it (one listing him as a female and another listing him as a male). It noted that one of the K2 visas in his passport was now invalid.
The following day, all 3 of them flew safely to the USA with no problems and my 3 kids and I met the 3 of them at the airport!
We plan to marry in a church 8 days from now. javascript:emoticon(' ')
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #8733 on November 19, 2011: |
kali1229
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I did not attend the interview with my husband but from what he told me this is how it went:
His interview was scheduled for November 16th at 9:00.
My husband arrived shortly before six and he went to line #3 where there was only one other person in front of him. Once he went through security, he was the first one in the line where a CO asks for all of your paperwork in order. He said the Colombian lady that helped him was very rude. While she looked at the paperwork she said "So, you guys aren't married" and she kept repeating this in a statement manner, which my husband replied that we are as she had our marriage certificate in her hand and also gave her his birth certificate because on the back it has a statement notarized saying that we are married. My husband noticed that she was asking the opposite questions to fiancees ("you guys are married, but you are, I see that you are married"). She also looked at the "Certificado Judicial" and said that it wasn't good. That it was too old. (The date on it was from December 14th, 2010 but they're valid for one year. DAS would not give him a new one but just put that they had printed it out on October 14th, 2011).
She asked a few of questions:
-Where do you work?
-What do you do there?
-Where does your wife work?
She asked who INSERT NAME was and asked if that was my previous husband. My husband told her that I had never been married before and that that person was my step-dad who filled out the I-864a. After this, she suddenly changed her attitude and was very nice to my husband. He did have all of his paperwork in order so that part was easy. The girl behind my husband that got the same CO didn't have the same luck. The CO started yelling at her telling her to get her paperwork in order. Another person had glued their passport photos to the interview letter and she got yelled at too.
My husband waited for about an hour to go to the interviewing officer. He said she was a very pretty American lady and was very, very nice. She took my husband's finger prints, and asked some questions.
-Where do you work?
-What do you do there?
-Where does your wife work?
-What will you do for work when you get to the U.S?
She again asked about the Certificado Judicial, she wanted my mom's I-864a and when my husband couldn't find it she told him she would help him since she knew exactly what she was looking for. She also asked for my mom's green card which my husband did not have a copy of.
In the end, the CO said, "this is the approval letter, you have been approved, but if you don't send me by e-mail a copy of your mother-in-law's green card, I will retract this and you will not get your visa."
All in all, my husband said he had a very good experienced. He said that he felt it was important to have a color copy of the passport biographical page and to have everything organized.
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #8714 on November 16, 2011: |
justwaiting4her
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My fiancee says the questioning was simple and easy like other people are reporting. They asked my name, my address, how long we have known each other, and have I ever visited Colombia. My fiancee was unfairly refused entry at the border and we need the i-212. She said they asked her a couple of questions about that issue as well.
The only hold up with her interview is because of the refusal, since she had "troubles" they made her wait until they cleared other people out before giving her the interview. She was there 5 hours, and when she left she was called back. That was a nervous moment, but they wanted to give her a document they forgot to return. Regardless, she said the man that interviewed her was very nice and it helped her relax. Other than the wait she considered the experience good. Now we just need the I-212.
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