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Dominica US Consulate Reviews
Average Rating: 4.6
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7 Review(s)
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| Barbados |  Review #29199 on February 22, 2021: |
jcs2019
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
My husband’s appointment was at 7:30 AM but he arrived at the embassy at 6 AM 🤦ðŸ¾â€â™€ï¸ Lol. He said that a few minutes past 7:30, the security officer instructed those who had an appointment for 7:30 to enter the embassy. He said it was a really simple process. He was only asked to show a few documents (police certificate, marriage certificate). He said the interview itself was fairly short and probably took about 5 mins. She asked him seven questions:
How many people were at your wedding and who were they?
Where was your wedding?
What did you do after your wedding?
What does your wife do for work?
How long has your wife been in the USA?
Who lives with her?
Where did you meet ?
After he answered the questions, the consular officer told him he was approved and gave him instructions to return his passport. Overall, it was a fairly simple process and a lot easier than I thought it would be.
| | | Barbados | Review #18470 on November 30, 2015: |
Ladee and King
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Our appointment was scheduled for 9:00 am. We arrived at the Embassy at 8:30 am. We ere greeted by a female officer who asked for the interview confirmation letter. Then we waited to be searched and checked in. My fiance and I had a bit of a hard time as they kept telling me that I could not come in with him. As all the other reviews have stated, they were allowed to come with their fiance's. I became a bit pushy and they let me in after a 10 minute complaint. When we got there we were motioned to a window on the left.
We rang a small button and an attendant came out. He asked for the interview letter and DS160 confirmation and asked us to sit down. Then the attendant called for us again. He asked that we go pay at the cashiers at the next window. We paid $265 US and brought the receipt back. My fiance was asked to verify his date of birth, and to give a copy of his birth certificate. (we did not have a copy, which irritated the attendant. He left and made a copy) My fiance, King was then asked to do fingerprints on a scanner. Then we were asked to sit again.
About 5 minutes later, another attendant called us and My fiance was asked two questions: Where did you meet? and when did you meet? The attendant and my fiance then conversed. ( I didn't want to crowd, so I cannot be sure what they discussed. Will update post later) He then informed us that the visa had been approved and slid a green paper asking that we mail the passport and form back to the embassy.
All in all, it was a good experience.
| | | Barbados | Review #17889 on September 28, 2015: |
trublubu2
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Things went well and we were approved on September 22nd! Surprisingly, they were all so nice at the embassy. Come early, bring a bag for anything you want to eat or drink, because you'll be putting it in a locker along with your phone. They let in people 2 at a time to go through security, then you're escorted into the waiting room--I think they have an additional waiting room when the original one fills up.
The appointment was at 9am, but we got there at 7:30 via two buses. I thought we'd be too early, but it took like one hour to get through security, get ourselves situated, stop sweating, lol (the embassy is air conditioned, don't worry), and chill out to be ready for the interview. Both of us were allowed to go through the whole process together.
Once you get to the waiting room, you wait until you see an open window, and then give your appointment letter to a person at windows 1, 2 or 3--the other windows seemed to be for non K visa types. You sit back down and then they call the beneficiary's name over the loudspeaker (and the other visa types by a number) to come to a window. The lady who took our paperwork at window 3 was really nice: she asked a few basic questions like the beneficiary's address, then she requested all the records listed in the embassy letter in Packet 3, for the petitioner's address and phone number, and if we knew how much the visa fee was, then she sent us to the cashier to pay the fee and bring the receipt to her. We used U.S. dollars cash to pay the cashier and it was cool.
After paying the fee, receiving a receipt and taking it back to window 3, we sat down for about ten minutes and then a man called us to window 1 to interview us some more--he was nice as well. He had the beneficiary's file in front of him and any red flags they suspected were highlighted--they did make note of our age gap in the paper, but didn't ask us about it. They do scrutinize some cases more than others--and they do have records of your previous encounters with immigration, so tell the entire truth. He asked us how and when we met and how many times we'd seen each other. Since we had a notebook which is a replica of everything we'd sent in with our I-129, as we told him our story, we showed him pictures of my cousin who introduced us and even the pics we took during our visits.
Just come correct with all your information and make it a priority for both the petitioner and the beneficiary to attend the embassy interview, since I think they are also looking to see how the couples interact/look together. Each interview was about 10-20 minutes max, then the man interviewing us began describing how to process the passport and visa via DHL. I asked if we had it, he said yes and gave us a green sheet of paper with the DHL details -- we were done by 10am.
Final thoughts: if you have questions, start emailing the BridgetownIV and BridgetownACS addresses with your queries, send them screenshots if you need to prove they have stuff--remember, they DO NOT TAKE PHONECALLS, so keep on sending them [polite, but thorough] emails until they satisfy your queries, make sure you have all your paperwork together and organized for easy retrieval per what they ask for in the letter from packet 3, don't look nervous, make sure your fiance is with you at the interview and things should go alright.
Lastly, these are *specific* things we wish we'd known to ask BEFORE we left the embassy:
(1) directions how to deliver your passport to the embassy before leaving Barbados for your home country if you are a CARICOM national and can travel on your ID/driver's license--so you don't have to pay DHL for a two-way mailing
(2) as a CARICOM national, ask about getting an embassy letter showing that they have your passport for Barbados airport immigration (at the airport, my Fiance had to go through 2 people, fill out an additional document, and show his Dominica social security card along with his driver's license and other papers, before they'd let him through since he'd sent his passport back to the embassy before we left)
(3) ask the embassy about the procedures of flying to the U.S. (i.e., Puerto Rico) on a one-way ticket with LIAT airlines, as LIAT doesn't seem to know about K-1 visas and you'll get a warning pop-up when you try to book online, or some of the ticketing agents will not let you book a one-way ticket.
my rating of 4 stars = 5 stars for a Very Good Experience in person at the embassy itself - 1 star for the
--lack of communication on setting an appointment and paying the fee
--outdated Barbados embassy website with contradictory info
--refusal to answer any of the phone numbers they have on the embassy website
--terse bordering on snide email responses
--outdated VJ Barbados portal of information with no way to change it
--packet 3 and 4 being sent via international snail mail
--no DHL agent in the embassy (have to go to the airport one--that is closed on weekends and only open from 9 to 5--to send it back to the embassy)
--the embassy saying that they didn't have the paperwork but CEAC's website said they did, so I had to send a screenshot of CEAC's website to get packet 3
--the embassy not sending packet 4 until I sent an email with a screenshot of the DHL delivery slip when the embassy had received the signed letter from packet 3
(updated on September 27, 2015)
| | | Barbados | Review #13887 on February 18, 2014: |
finalempress
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Went to the interview as early as possible. Got there a litle before 6 am and was the first in ine by 6:30. Doors opened at 7 am went through security and was seated by 7:30. Got called to the window 1. The guy asked for our appointment letter and sent us back to our seats. We were then called back to the window and asked to go pay the visa fee at the cashier and return to window 1. He then asked for the civil documents (he was a bit mean). Once he collected all the documents he needed he asked us to take a seat and wait to be called. They only took the documents from my fiance, the affidavit of support and my 2012 tax return. We were then paged to go to interview room #7. The Officer was very nice and friendly. Asked how we knew each other, where we planned on having our wedding, if we had any kids, then he saw that my fiance has his own plumbing business and asked if he plans on continuing the same thing up here. The experience was not really bad. So far this has been the easiest part of the whole process. So relieved that it is over. And now to the good stuff until AOS.
| | | Barbados | Review #13614 on January 9, 2014: |
Mrs-Belle
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So, my fiance had his interview today. Overall, it went very well.
There was a guy at a window who asked him for a form. My fiance wasn't sure which form he was asking for. So, he was fumbling through the papers and the guy said are you nervous sir? lol He told him "Don't be nervous at all."
I thought the encouragement was great after all the horror stories.
Then, once finished there, he said he had to sit outside without several other people for a few hours.
Once they called his name, an older caucasion man took him into the interview room and began asking questions.Such as,
Where did we meet?
Did I come to Dominica?
How long was I in DOminica?
Tell me something about your US fiance....
Have you ever used Drugs/Chemical Substances.....
Do you or your fiance have any children?
I will add this.....when they asked my fiance How long I came to Dominica for? He told them "one week". The interviewer proceeded to say, "So you fell in love in one week?". My fiance told him "No sir, we have talked everyday for over 4 years now, either online, on the phone, we have come to learn everything about each other. The one week we spent together only confirmed that I love her as much as I thought."
Then, the one that got me.....When they asked him if he used any drugs or chemical substances, he told them No. The guy said "how can you be from Dominica and you never used drugs?" Really? I was kind of surprised that he would say something like that. So, then he saw that my fiance's father was a police officer and says "oh ok so now I understand why you never used drugs". I guess they suspect everyone from Dominica to use drugs?
Anyway, Overall my fiance was super happy since we got approved and I think overall everyone in the embassy was very friendly and helpful. I am so thankful for that. A smiling face and positive attitude makes people in nervous situations so much more at ease!  Good luck to everyone else on their journeys!
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