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| Malaysia |  Review #5882 on April 5, 2010: |
summerspring
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1st April 2010
I arrived at the embassy around 8.50am and got myself into the long line at the guard house to submit IC and show them appointment letter in exchange of visitor pass. This process took around 30 minutes. After that, I went through 2 securtiy check in order to get a number before entering the waiting room. I sat there and wait for around 40 minutes to just submit my documents (I didn't photocopy my original birth cert, I thought the certified translation copy would be enough and got charged 1USD for photocopy there!o_0) and was ordered to come back at 1.30pm.
I went back at around 1pm and right away waiting for my turn in the waiting room after getting through the security check again. The room was crowded with a lot of people, youngs and olds. It was really noisy to an extend that one fo the officers was pissed off and got out of office and yelled at all of the applicants in the waiting room. Finally, after an more than an hour of waiting, my numver was called and I was attended by a middle-age american woman. She seemed to have a bad day and din't seem to be friendly. She questioned me a lot and was kinda sarcastic in a sense. She frowned so bad when she knew that we need a co-sponsor and emphasized at the age of my fiance who is 3 years younger than me. She gave me 'Not again' look when she heard that we got to know each other through a website and kept question why I am so sure he is the right one.
When I tried to talk about the relationship, she halted my speech and asked me to stop, claiming that she didn't need to listen to those. When I offered to show her the proof of relationship, she said it wasn't necessary. Thoughout the 20 mins of interview she looked kinda serious and frowned constantly and shook her head, sometimes; the thought of being denied preoocupied my mind that time but I managed to smile when dealing with her, with a heart throbbing fast.
Luckily, after around 15Qs being asked, she said that judging on the documents i submitted, no special reasons to deny the petition so I was approved. *sweat. I was relieved. Next, i was asked to wait in the room again, to be given instruction by another officer to collect the visa at the next coming day.
2nd April, 2010
I arrived at wisma MCA at 2.30pm to collect visa. I went through security check and was issued a number and then waited in the room until 3.05pm. This process was kinda fast and I received my passport and brown envelop at around 3.15pm.
It wasn't the most wonderful experience compare with others who had interview at the same embassy but at least, I was approved! That's what matter the most.
| | | Malaysia | Review #5709 on February 20, 2010: |
Bsze
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We (my fiance was here for the interview) arrived at the embassy at 9am to submit documents. There were a lot of people waiting and only one counter was serving immigrant visas. (Technically, the K1 is a non-immigrant visa but the embassy places them in the same category as immigrant ones just for speedier processing and to ease the burden of officers servicing non-immigrant visas). The officer who attended to us was friendly and helpful. He was surprised that we knew to show up at 9am because when he looked at our appointment letter, he realized that that part was missing. We explained that through corresponding with the embassy staff, we were notified of this. He was very apologetic and thanked us for being understanding. The document submission was quick because we had our stuff organized. We got to the counter at 9:20am (paid then too, before the actual interview) and was done by 9:30am. We were told to come back at 1:30pm for our interview.
We got back to the embassy by 1:15pm, and there were 3 cases before us. It took a long time to get to us, we were called to the counter at 2:45. There, another officer told us that she only wanted to speak to me, and told my fiance to take a seat. She swore me in (tell the truth etc) and had me sign my forms in front of her. She then asked me 2 questions: how did we meet and how did our relationship became serious. After that, she told us that our visa was approved and to pick it up at Wisma MCA the next day. The whole interview lasted all of 5 minutes. It was quick, easy and we were very pleasantly surprised.
That said, a caveat: My fiance was there with me so this might have affected our interview. As we were sitting in the embassy for quite some time, the officer had a lot of time and opportunity to observe us. This may or may not have affected her questions or decision. However, the US embassy in Malaysia does not really have a reputation for being difficult.
All in all, a 5 for our embassy experience.
| | | Malaysia | Review #5350 on December 3, 2009: |
del-11-03-2013
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I accompanied Nadiana to her Dec 3, 2009 interview for a US K1 (90 day) visa, aka "sweetheart visa" at the US consulate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We arrived at 9:15 for a 9:30 appt. After a brief time standing in line outside the consulate, we were ushered into a room in the main building (with the usual airport style security checks) After a brief wait, they took Nadiana's documents and told us to come back at 1:30. We came back at 1:15, repeating the morning's procedure. We ended up talking to a pleasant man around 40 years old who asked us a few perfunctory questions - how did we meet, have we been married, what did I do for a living, and that was it. He had spent time in San Francisco and we chatted a bit about that. He knew where I lived and told Nadiana she was moving to a good location. He seemed to like that we had a picture of us with Nadiana's father sitting together smiling. I was told family support is important and perhaps it was. Pretty smooth sailing - no problems. 
| | | Review #5169 on October 31, 2009: |
Leo&Farah
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Interview:
I arrived at 9am to hand in the documents to the pre-screener (I-134, birth certificate, passport, police certificate, medical results, proof of relationship). A few small questions were asked regarding the relationship, not a big deal really. It went really well. Casual, with no hostility.
One thing to note is the counter could not fit my standard photo album so I had to take out all pictures one by one at the embassy for the pre-screener.
Make sure to get a visa number for immigrants and not non-immigrants as the K1 is processed as an immigrant visa here. So it will be a B number, not an A number. The security guard gets confused between the two. I had to tell him I wanted a B number.
I paid the USD131 fee which was RM498, did not get a receipt immediately and was told to come back at 1:30 pm.
I arrived at 1pm and there were about 5 other people there for immigrant visas. Spent one hour and 15 minutes panicking and thinking I was going to die of a heart attack before the first immigrant visa number was called at 2:15pm, which was me.
The interviewer was a very nice, sweet, funny and young Chinese American guy. He made a few jokes and said I looked cute as a kid on my old passport.
There was absolutely no intimidation or hostility during the interview. It lasted all of 5 minutes. First he took my fingerprints and then made me swear to tell the truth and after that returned all my proof of relationship documents to me, original photos, my birth cert, original W2s and my old passport. I think he had pretty much made up his mind about approving before the actual interview based on the amount of evidence I provided (Roughly 5kgs worth of paper for the 5 years we've been together) since the questions he asked were very basic.
- How did you meet?
- When did you start dating?
- When did you start talking?
- Is this your engagement ring receipt or wedding ring receipt?
- You don't have an engagement ring? (didn't matter that I didn't have one)
- Have you been anywhere else outside of Malaysia?
As an afterthought, he asked standard questions:
- What's your fiance's name?
- Whats your fiance's dad's name?
- Where does your fiance live?
I think at this point, it was just a formality since it was pretty obvious I knew my fiance well.
He mistook my fiance for studying at the college and asked something about him studying. I got confused and he explained he saw a college on the I-134. I corrected him saying my fiance works there and gave the full title and expounded on what he actually does. I'm not sure if he made a mistake or if he was testing me to see if I knew but it was handled after the initial confusion.
After that, he started to tell me to sit down then went "-oh, congratulations, your visa has been approved" as an afterthought, which makes me think the whole approval was already taken for granted since he missed that step.
I am 99% sure the sheer amount of relationship evidence I submitted at the pre-screening made his mind up and the rest was a formality. When I got my pictures back, he had flipped through half of it as the order was messed up but did not look at the other half. So they check the evidence before the actual interview since he did not look at a single thing during, except to double check the answers to the name and address on his file.
I was really happy talking about Leo and me, so it showed in the interview I suppose.
Those that are worrying about the interview, there is no intimidation at all. It's a very casual conversation but be prepared for concise answers since he is highly trained and often does not let you finish what you are saying. So less beating around the bush and more straight talk. Don't be robotic though, be yourself and be confident about your relationship. And smile, because you're happy at the thought of being with your loved one pretty soon. So show it! I blabbed a lot and did not get to finish most of what I was saying but I was smiling and grinning throughout the whole thing, even though the prior wait almost killed me from mere suspense. The CO is wonderful, friendly and approachable.
Note: It rained cats and dogs after the interview, so bring an umbrella. I got soaked. But who cares, I was happy and dancing on cloud nine. I didn't mind a little rain, well a lot of rain actually.
They gave me a blue card to pick up my passport and envelope from Wisma MCA the next day at 3-4pm and that went by without a hitch!
| | | Malaysia | Review #4462 on May 28, 2009: |
Scott & LC
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I arrived at the embassy at about 10 minutes to 9am. I was supposed to submit the documents at 9am and the interview's at 1.30pm. Anyways, after getting the pass (showed them interview letter, etc), I lined up and waited for the guards to let me in. I went in at about 9.10am. I was a total nervous wreck! I took the number but it turned out to be a wrong one, coz I took the non-immigrant visa type and mine was an immigrant visa. So I took another number... waited... my number was B402  Waited and finally they called my number. I gave them all the documents, the lady looked thru them, asked me a couple of questions, took the photos as relationship evidence (I didnt have to submit any other receipts or emails or chat logs), signed a few documents and asked me to sit down. I was called again and I had to pay the USD131 fees, I paid with my credit card. After that, I was free to go and will have to come back at 1.30pm for the interview.
I went to KLCC (Petronas Twin Towers), walked around... went for a manicure coz it was like almost 11am and I had 2 hours to kill. So after that, went to Starbucks, had a cuppa and lunch... then it was almost 1pm and I left for the train station to go back to the embassy. I reached the embassy about 1.10pm and I went in.. waited for a while... well, I waited for like 1/2 hour and my number was called again. The officer was a Chinese American... really nice guy. He took my finger prints and asked me swear in telling the truth and nothing but the truth.... then asked me to walk to the other window where the interview is done.
He asked me a couple of questions, below are some that I can remember:
1. What is your fiance's name?
2. What does he do? (At first he said "husband" and I corrected him, saying "fiance")
3. How long has he been working there?
4. Have you ever been to the US?
5. Have you stayed anywhere else (for more than 6 months) outside of Malaysia?
6. When do you intend to get married?
7. How did you meet?
8. How many times did you meet up personally?
9. Where does he live?
10. Do you plan to have a wedding ceremony in the US and Malaysia?
11. Has your fiance stayed in Malaysia or anywhere near Malaysia before?
He asked me a few more small questions... when he asked me about the wedding ceremony, I told him we're just gonna do a small wedding party and we haven't exactly planned yet coz we wanted to make sure we get the visa first. He was like, what are you talking about? Of course you're gonna get the visa! Well, unless it's a fake engagement! :P Heh... so he was a really really sweet and nice guy! I'm glad to get him as my interviewer!!
Oh yeah, the interview took like maybe 10-15 minutes and I was out of the place by 2pm!!
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