Turkey US Consulate Reviews
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| Ankara, Turkey |  Review #6446 on August 7, 2010: |
haknas
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Here is our interview experience in Ankara, Turkey.
Our interview time was 8:15AM. We arrived there at 8:00AM and there
was already very long two lines, one for visitor visa and one for immigrant visa. I found out that the immigrant visa line was that long because Iranian
applicants also get interviewed in Ankara, Turkey.
We had to wait until 9:20AM to get in because security office told us that
there is already a long line inside and even he let us get in we would wait over there. Security officer then told me that USC spouse is not allowed to get in due to new regulation. So I wished good luck to my wife and she got in around 9:20AM and I was waiting for her outside.
This is what she told me about her interview;
After security check there was a counter where she had to wait half hour because there was another long line for immigrant via. Here they asked for the appointment letter, medical test results and 2 pictures first. Then they asked for wedding pictures, email records (we didn't email a lot to each other but we called each other everyday so we had a print out of our call records instead), 2009 tax return and any additional proof such as flight tickets, money
transfer etc. My wife gave 2009 tax return with the 3 months bank account statements because I used my cash assets to sponsor. Then they gave a number and asked her to wait for interview.
It was very crowded and after almost one and half hour her number was called for fingerprint and she completed the fingerprint and kept waiting. In fourty minutes her number was called again for the interview. She went to the window and the lady said "hello, how are you?"  and then asked to swear that everything is correct in DS230 and everything she will say in the
interview is also correct. After this officer started to ask the following questions;
1) How did you meet?
2) How long did you talk before you met in person? (Because we met online)
3) Where did you meet first? (In which country and city?)
4) What does your husband do? Where does he work?
My wife said he has his own business and she asked what kind of business etc.
5) What do you do? Do you work?
My wife said I recently graduated from university and never worked.
6) What is your degree?
7) When did you get married?
8) Where did you get married?
9) Did you go to honeymoon?
10) Who came to the wedding from your family?
When the officer was done with the questions she told my wife that everything is okay and good and asked her to wait in the window. In a few minutes officer came back with a paper for the UPS Counter and asked her to make the payment to the UPS Counter and gave back some documents (such as original marriage certificate and birth certificate, wedding pictures etc.). My wife
was expecting to get a document with decision also and asked to officer whether she will get a document and the officer told her "everything is okay, we don't give such document but you are approved and you will get your passport with visa back in 5 business days."
The lady was very nice and the interview was very smooth with no problems at all except the long wait outside.
Today we got the passport back with Visa and a yellow sealed envelope. So it took 2 days to receive.
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| Ankara, Turkey | Review #6317 on July 9, 2010: |
myjwb
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Not many questions. Specified a preference for Turkish but they asked in English and that went okay. I have to assume if it hadn't, they would have interviewed in Turkish. Interviewer was very nice and seemed sincere when she said, "Welcome to the United States!"
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| Ankara, Turkey | Review #6314 on July 9, 2010: |
LoveRaja
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http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=77571
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| Ankara, Turkey | Review #6312 on July 8, 2010: |
LoveRani
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My wife had her interview on June 22, 2010. She woke up early at like 6 a.m. Turkish time. She got ready and went to the Ankara US embassy at like 7:30 a.m. She said she was the first one to be there. Her appointment was at about 8:30 a.m. She said more and more people started to come and it got really crowded. Finally the embassy opened at around 8 a.m. and started to let all the people in. Than they separated the people for what kind of visa and what time they had their appointments. My wife said she just waited and waited because it was a lot of people who had interviews that day. Finally at 11:30 a.m. she was called for the interview. She didn't tell me when they called her for pre-screening and such so I don't remember that, haha. They lady asked her how we met and when we met. She didn't ask anything else. The CO wrote something on the computer than asked for our 2009 tax returns which I sent to her again. Glad I did send another copy! The CO looked at it and than asked for bank statement which I didn't send. I didn't think I would need it because with my new job, the income was good. Plus I didn't ask the VJ family about it. Well they told her that she is approved, but they need 15k in funds more. That is what the CO told her and said it doesn't matter how the funds come in the bank account. The CO said they just want to see it so they can issue the visa. So they gave her the green slip stating what was missing. Of course when she called me in the morning I was heart broken because I couldn't sleep all night and wanted to hear the good news. It was good news because that is all that we were missing. My wife said the CO was very nice and everyone else as well. They were in a hurry at the end because it was time for lunch or something that is what my wife said. So overall it was pretty good interview. Ankara embassy seems good. Thank You all VJ family for helping us get through this hard process. Without the help of the VJ family and this website, we would be quite lost. Thank You from the bottom of my heart
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| Ankara, Turkey | Review #6255 on June 22, 2010: |
Monty1179
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We got the the consulate early and waited in line. When we got the the gate they wouldn\\\'t allow me to go in with my wife. My wife told me that she gave the doctor\\\'s paperwork to the receptionist then she gave my wife a number. About an hour later my wifes number was called for biometrics (fingerprints). Another hour later her number was called again for the interview which was in Turkish. He looked through the paperwork and asked her 3 questions: My birthdate, how long we have been married, and if I was in the military.
We couldn\\\'t provide two of the documentss that he asked for, so he gave us a light green paper with the things we need to provide. He said we have been approved but we need to send the required documents with the checklist and the passport and our visa would be provided in 5 buisness days.
5 days after the required documents were sent, the green paper said we should have received our visa. I called the embassy to find out the status of our visa only to be told to send an e-mail through the embassy web site.
After a few weeks of not hearing anything about our visa we received a text message saying our visa will be delived the next day.
(updated on July 13, 2010)
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