Colombia US Consulate Reviews
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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review #5833 on March 24, 2010: |
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
I just want to thank all the other members on here who posted their experience during the interview process. Without them there is no way that we would have been approved for our K-1 visa. And I even hired an attorney to help me with the process because I had know idea what to expect during this 6 month long process. Luckily the attorney told me to read this website and and the reviews to know what to expect. The most important review I read was one about his fiance being denied a student visa and having this be a big problem during the interview for his fiance visa. To all those out there who are applying I would go with your fiance if at all possible. I saw a couple of women get denied who were by themselves and if there is any problem they will most likely deny your fiance if you are not present. Everything was great with my petition lots of evidence and all paperwork filled out correctly. However my fiance had a denial of a student visa two years ago. Her Aunt had a longtime boyfriend in the States and he had offered to help my fiance with her student visa afadavit of support, she was denied because of lack of financial resources for that visa. When she went to talk to the consular he basically felt that she was committing fraud and that she was using me to get to the United States. He gave her a very hard time about this and then said that he wanted to talk to me about this past visa. If I hadn't read the previous reviews on this website we would not have been prepared for this seemingly non important factor because we have a great relationship. All in all if there was EVER a past denial make sure that you and your fiance/wife are on the same page and she remembers what the denial was for and who sponsored if anybody. I had to tell him that I was aware of this and I knew for a fact that it wasn't a romantic relationship. If I hadn't been so forceful about it he would have denied us. So make sure you go over this with your fiance/wife. Be prepared to wait and wait and wait some more it's so slow. I would compare it to the Chinese torture method of dripping water on your forehead for hours and hours. We did see people get denied but they pretty much approved all couples that were at the interview together. So be prepared and be together that would be my advice. At the end we got our visa and we were so happy.
P.S He didn't look at ANY OF OUR EVIDENCE. He just cared about her past denial
Good luck.
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| Bogota, Colombia | Review #5807 on March 17, 2010: |
rcems543
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K3 Visa
Things asked of her:
1. what was spouse's employment
2. Was she working, house wife, or student
3. If american spouse spanish
4. If she has lived in another country
5. How long we had dated.
6. How long she lived in the other country
7. How many times american spouse had been married before
8. If the american spouse smoke(s)
Things ask of him (american spouse):
1. How did we meet
2. How old she is
3. How old I am
4. What i do for a living
5. How many times i had come to colombia
6. How many times i had been married
7. How many times has she been married
8. Where do i live
The consulate asked to see pictures of us. We had a photo album to show so that was no problem.
We arrived there at 630 am and left at 130 pm. They do not go by who arrived first. So it wouldn't be anything to be there a long time and some one after you gets seen first.
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| Bogota, Colombia | Review #5802 on March 16, 2010: |
CristianAmour
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We had an amazing experience at the embassy. The consular officer was extremely nice and treated us really well.
Our visa was approved about 5 minutes into the interview. Everything else was good and organized too.
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| Bogota, Colombia | Review #5801 on March 16, 2010: |
arizreynolds
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we left the apartment at 6am and took maybe 5min to get there. they told us to get in line 3 while we waited to go through security to enter embassy. they started letting us in at 6:30 and told us to go to window 40. around 7am a lady came over to our group of people and gave us a folder to organize all the papers in. a little while later they started calling people to window 30 and 31 to turn in papers. they did not call us and we was wondering how long it was going to be. finally they call 5 of us to window 40 and they told us to follow them to window 4 where the interview was. we made a couple of friends there while we waited and they turned their paper work into windows 30 and 31. it was not very cold to me there but other people said it was i guess it just depends where you are from. finally they call us to window 4 and we turned in our papers. we are thinking that they have us doing something different maybe because we did not pass medical. so we asked one of the 5 people that came with us to window 4 if they had all papers and they say yes. they started finger printing everyone that went through window 30 and 31 so we are very concerned because we did not do samething as others and they have not called any of us to finger printing. at this point we think they might just tell us to go home until we get medical. its around lunch time and the place is getting thined out and we are wondering if and when we will get interview. a little later they call everyone that did not have an interview yet to stand in line and they took our names and told us to sit down again. finally 30 min later they call us for interview. i stood next to sandra as they interviewed her and they asked her a few questions and they wanted to talk to me. the only thing he said was everything looked good and visa is approved as long as she gets her medical. now we are waiting for this and it will be roughly 45 days doctor said. this is a long story you can ask me if you want to know. once we have an approval on medical then we turn in to embassy and pay for visa
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| Bogota, Colombia | Review #5783 on March 11, 2010: |
dakay ♥
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the interview was easy and smooth, just took 5 minutes and the CO asked me:
what is the job of your fiance? how many times he has traveled to Colombia?
he has been married? do you have lived in USA? you have photos? and then I heard the sweet words: "visa approved"
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