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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review #6142 on May 29, 2010: |
sbraunin
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The consulate people were basically fine. The gal who first organizes your paperwork could probably use an attitude adjustment, but, she was just a minor player in the day's activities.
US consular officer was a very cool guy. All his questions for both of us were completely straight forward.
Bring a small umbrella to the embassy, as you can get stuck standing outside waiting in line to get into the embassy in the morning. If its raining, and you didn't have an umbrella, it would be kind of a drag.
We had our paperwork well organized and had no problems.
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #6134 on May 26, 2010: |
robertlaird
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Approved
Got to the Embassy about 5:45am about 20 in line before us.
6:30 am they have you line up by visa type we were Line 3 for K1 visa
7:00 am Domessa agent puts a number on your passport and starts a delivery invoice for each passport.
7:00 am given a folder to put in the list of documents (3) 1 for fiancée and one for each child
The Form DS-156 I was mad that the bank made my fiancée re-fill out was the wrong revision date but accepted by the embassy.
Bogotá uses the red serial number of the passport not the one that is on the passport in the passport number area. (I understand you use the passport number that we would expect to use for travel documents)
8:00 am called to window 32 and documents were reviewed and asked for signatures on a few forms that were not to be signed until this point. Strange part of this step was the woman would lower the shade and say we will process one child at a time and one minute later raised the shade did child 1, lowered the shade and then raised it to complete child 3.
As others have stated, I do not know how you hear your name over the poor PA system, helps that the Colombians have 4 names...
10:00 am called to window 2 for fingerprinting
Now waiting for Windows 3-6 to be called for the interview. The area is a huge U-Shape and someone must move the files behind the scenes from 32 to the Window 2-6 area.
Now the interesting part Window 3 and 6 pretty fast interview for most and approvals for many. Window 5, very intimidating looking interview. Gentleman looked American, Bald Headed and would rifle thru the large stack of documents and fire questions, talking with hands, request additional information, keep rifling thru documents. He denied or requested additional documents for about 6 visas in a row, good news was his interviews were about 20 minutes so reduced your odds of getting him. He turned down a family of 3, well dressed man in a suit and his family. Window 5 turned down a single man that must have had 100 photographs they passed thru the windows, my guess request additional proof. Then Window 5 pages a single blond young lady within about 30 seconds of his last denial.
Noon We get paged next to Window 6 thank God.
Agent asked my finance to have her children go sit down.
First question to Fiancée the ages of the children (hers) They must have an area of fraud here and hope to trip you up if it was your siblings children or something. Nelly had photos of children as they grew up because we saw a recent request for additional information, agent never asked to see.
Agent then asked me to sit down.
Next Question How many times was I married? My fiancée knew and gave this information.
What happen on her previous K-1 Filing where she went to the US and returned at the 90 day mark?
What did my fiancée know about my previous K-1 filing in 2005?
Did I speak Spanish? She said some
Did she speak English? She said she was studying English.
What had happen to her deceased spouse?
Ok My Turn
I started talking before questioned and commented on his wireless plantronics headset use the same one at my work and love it.
Prompted the question what was my work and where?
Agent mentioned he knew the Seattle area I gave him the Exit number off I-5
Next question he asked about my previous K-1 and what happened to Heather?
Not sure if this was a trick or mistake by agent but I said Heather was my ex-wife and then give him the Name and information of my previous K-1 Filing.
Next he asked what happen on my fiancée’s previous 2008 K-1 Visa? Stated she had come to the US, did not marry and returned at the 90 day mark.
Asked me what had happened to my fiancées deceased spouse? I gave the information and he asked for my fiancée back to the window.
He told her we were approved.
About the same time Window 5 gave his first approval we saw to the blond
Off to the Domesa pay area for visa delivery.
This how you could tell who got the approval.
Review or more information went left and exited the compound.
Approved went to pay for Domessa to deliver your visa back to you about 8 business days for Cartagena
I think my attendance at the interview helped with both of us having previous approved K-1's a few years ago. No request for chat logs, phone records, or photos. I think they know when you are standing there with 5 inches of documents that you have most anything they could ask for.
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #6116 on May 22, 2010: |
ashwood486
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I will try to describe the process for us with hopes of helping someone else. My finace had her first interview with it ending a request for more evidence for her son and a request for me to attend the second interview. We had a good hotel close to the embassy. Our hotel provided free airport and embassy transportation. The name is Hotel American Dream. I think some things at the embassy are very professional others need some attention. Most of the people are very nice a few lack some people skills. The process started at 6 am in line they processed us checking our new evidence and gave us a appointment to return at 1 pm for the interview. They called my fiance,I naturally went to the window with her, I was promply told to go sit down. I do not have a problem with this, I still do not understand the next comment. I walked away and stood out of site from the interviewer just thinking of another cup of coffee, I was 10 feet from the rows of chairs standing in a court yard. The interviewer spoke to my fiance to tell me to sit dowm in the chairs. I really do not understand this but, I smiled and said OK no problem. I was able to speak with everyone else who was being interviewed and waiting for one. The question process lasted about 20 minutes for my fiance, asking questions about me such as,
1. What sports do I like
MY favorite food?
Questions about my family, my work,
What I do on the weekends when I am not at work.
What my hobbies are?
The women ask when we had sex for the first time, and then wanted to know when we had sex the last time.
I even spoke with another couple who were questioned seperatly if they used a condom.
What do you plan to do on your honeymoon? Our seperate answers were, we can't plan a honeymoon until you give us a visa, the women smiled then.
What is our favorite food. What she does for a hobby?
They wanted to know about our families and how much money I send her, how often, how much we speak to each other, what methods we use.
I have all this evidence but they do not want to see it. I offer more proof they say no.
Everyone needs to understand you need to know personal information about each others likes and dislikes because they will ask.
They ask about our communication and my spanish, her English.
They never wanted anymore information such as evidence of a relationship during either interview. They only had the original packet I sent with the I29F to Vermont, of course they wanted the 325 and financial information. They never wanted tax returns at any point.
I guess it was a good experience we did not have to stay at the embassy all day, we came back at 12:15 and was told to come back more close to our interview time around 1 pm.
I hope this helps someone more later and good luck
Jay and Katy
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #6106 on May 20, 2010: |
PanamaJack
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I was pissed that they sent me for a DAS certificate..Visa is pending a second interview..
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #6105 on May 20, 2010: |
PanamaJack
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Dorks dorks dorks............ F'em all........
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