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| France |  Review #5287 on November 23, 2009: |
Frenchness
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Interview was circa 5-10 min long, at the U.S. embassy of Paris, France.
No evidence of relationship asked for.
I.O. asked 3 questions: what does your fiancé do? why have you traveled to the States before? what do you plan on doing when you move stateside?
| | | France | Review #5267 on November 19, 2009: |
Jonara
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My fiance's interview was at 1 p.m. He was carrying 2 bags - a backpack and a briefcase containing all his papers. He was told he can't bring in the backpack with him and to go to a nearby hotel to ask them if they can keep his bag while he's being inteviewed. He came back to the embassy telling the guard that no one wants to take his backpack for a few hours. The guard called someone from the embassy to check his backpack and then they let him in. Phew.
My fiance dealt with 2 CO's. The first one took his paper work and making sure everything is in good order. He's speaking with her for about 10 minutes. Then he waited for over an hour for the next CO. The actual interview took about 10 minutes as well.
Topics raised:
1) Previous marriage(s).
2) His first U.S. visit and his 2nd one when he was refused entry. He explained the misunderstanding and his lack of knowledge of VWP rules.
3) What he does for a living in France.
4) What he's planning to do in the U.S.
He said it's a total of 5 questions around the topics above. Both COs are very professional. After that she told him yes I will give you the visa. She explained that he will get it in 10 days and that the visa has 6 months validity and we have 90 days to marry. No slip or anything.
| | | France | Review #5149 on October 28, 2009: |
PastryCupcake
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Had our interview scheduled for 1pm, we arrived at 12:45pm, because they said not to be too early, but i wished we had arrived earlier, as there was a HUGE line inside. We arrived, got our number, and waited about 30 minutes until we went to the first window where she confirmed our appointment, and sent us back to wait again. This time, we waited over an hour, until we finally went to the second window. She collected all the documents that were required, our chronopost envelope, and took the passport. We went back to the waiting chair, waiting even longer, almost 2 hours.  We were one of the last cases left in the building, and this was the final window, with the vice-consul. Here, he had our completed file, and all the evidence we ever submitted. He asked so many questions, like what our addresses were, our zodiac signs  and how we met. The way he asked the questions really stressed us out, and he wouldnt give us a definitive answer, but finally we left the embassy, and waited. One week and 2 days later, we received the VISA!!   
| | | France | Review #4960 on September 12, 2009: |
Frenchwife
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Difficult to enjoy when it is over a year you have been waiting since husband left thinking it would be quick to join him.
US embassy was as expected, fine, not friendly but professional.
Going to such places is always a little scary and you want to leave asap
in particular around that time of the year
From the number of people at the Embassy, and with the booth system you realize you are really one among a crowd.
The good thing is that We did it finally
Had interview at 1PM.
Went by train to Paris the evening before
Stayed outside of Paris in a family flat
went to Paris early morning
had to go to doctor first to show xray and pick up my medical enveloppe.
In anticipation of interview I had got more recent papers, pictures, originals, was still organizing it in the train and had a big suitcase of papers and computer with me.
went to embassy in the morning to check what about suitcase (confirmed no way) and what time to show up. was told 12:45 for 1PM interview
had lunch with my brother (gave him my suitcase, else I could have left it at gare de L'est there is a consigne but it is far, else I would have had to ask a store or a hotel (would have been tough)
then went back to Embassy
to go to Embassy
wore my jeans (no time to change and I tell you it does not matter!)
had only a pair of big folders in a flat work bag and a plastic bag
It was a beautiful hot day, a hot September day.
went in with my pasport and interview letter
go a number
and had to watch numbers on a display telling booths to go
I stayed, calm, polite and smiling all the time
answered only about the questions asked
Got friendly while waiting with some US people who had lost their passports
and were here to get emergency ones
was called 3 times
1) to give my passport
A lady at the booth
2) to give most recent papers / data and answer some basic questions
A lady was at the booth
I think I talked with her on the phone last year in September when trying to go Direct consular filing
or she was the one who called me for the K3 interview in June
she said: good you go for IR instead of K3 and she tore the K3 paper she apparently had there
she asked do you have new papers: answer yes (new birth certificate as the one I had sent to nvc was just over 3 month old, new wedding certificate)
do you have new pcc: no, previous is still valid I said
She asked confirmation for where I had leaved, wedding, children
She asked also do you have new resource info, I gave W2 for 2008 that they only had go through email, gave original of letters where we had sent pdfs
showed original 1040s for 2005, 2006, 2007 (she had seen I had them and asked for them saying hum I am interested in them
I was asked which address you want green card
I was asked what picture I wanted for the visa or GC (not sure) and if the one they had was less than 6 months, I said yes, had new ones but previous nicer. the lady said ok but picture a little blur so bring another to the border
was told to bring wray to border
I gave my chronopost enveloppe 1kg with address already on
I was given back a lot of copies they did not want to keep they only wanted one set
From how she was going through the papers I was thinking that all the letters (expedite requests, affidavit)in my petition were never read, only the forms and evidence requested were read
I was asked when do you intend to go, I said asap, probably November. I plan also to go before for holidays I said
At the end she said wait, next call you are going to talk to consul
I was glad I had prepared all the stuff....
3) to talk to consul (at booth)
Consul is a man
started with put hand up, swear that you say the truth
all in French but he is American you can tell
Then not sure if we continued in French or in English
he said, hum you travelled a lot to US. I said yes, for work
not sure he asked me anything else
was looking at all my papers he had in front of me
I was asked to sign DS230 part II
then he said you are done
I said thanks
bye
Interview was Tuesday
I received the chronopost on Friday
I went to pick the enveloppe with my son at the post office
Opened
enveloppe contains passport with visa to be endorsed within 6 month, a brown enveloppe, a paper about social security number and then about being new as immigrant
visa is dated Wednesday (the day after interview)
Good luck to the next ones.
| | | France | Review #4891 on August 25, 2009: |
Kenza
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I think because he was Moroccan and we are both young, he was grilled with questions! But they took his passport, which is a good sign, and we will just have to wait and see if the visa arrives in the 6-10 days that they said. Make sure both your French birth certificate, if you have one, and police certificate are within 3 months of the interview. Also the passport pics can't be the same as the ones you sent NVC-my husband had to go to the picture vending machine and take some. His interview was at 1:00 but they didn't start calling numbers until 1:30 and he was there for maybe 3 hours. They already had the 3 or 4 pics that I sent with the petition and didn't ask for ANY evidence! I was also disappointed that my husband didn't offer to at least show the pics, but they put him through a lot already.
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