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| Costa Rica |  Review #30136 on September 15, 2021: |
crvepd
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Process for K1 interview was smooth and everyone was very friendly, from the security officer outside to the immigration official. It took a while for them to schedule my interview due to the Pandemic, (About 3 months after they received my case from NVC). My interview lasted 5 minutes with very simple questions about our relationship, and a couple from my travel history to the US under other visa types. Overall great experience at the Embassy
| | | Argentina | Review #29883 on July 19, 2021: |
BZZ
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I will start by saying that my interview experience was a very good one and a very fast one. My appointment was at 8:30am, I got there a few minutes earlier, and by 9:30am I was already out of the embassy. I had never been to the US embassy in Buenos Aires, and I got a bit confused by a smaller building nearby that had US flags hanging outside. The embassy is the large facility on Av. Colombia and the actual entrance is closer to Av. Sarmiento.
My husband was in Buenos Aires but he wasn't allowed in, he kept my phone and I was able to go in with my wallet, interview documents and nothing else. There was nobody else in line at the time, and going through security was very fast. After going into the main building, there is a seating area and a standing area. I went to the seating area, and I saw the tourist/student visa applicants go to the standing area. My name was called rather quickly through a small window to ask for the documentation, the lady was monotone but nice, this is what she asked for:
- Yatri appointment registration.
- Current passport and old passports.
- 1 photograph.
- Birth certificate and photocopy (I gave her the one I had submitted to the NVC, and she asked if I happened to have one that had the Hague apostille, which I did think to bring, it was a different one, so she took both.)
- Marriage license and photocopy.
- Police certificate (She quickly noticed it was not the same one I had uploaded to NVC, but I explained I had asked for a new one with "excepción al artÃculo 51 del Código Penalâ€, so she accepted it.)
- Relationship evidence (I gave her a photo album of the last 5 years, cards and emails we've exchanged, proof of a credit card extension, airbnb reservations and passports stamps from both of us, showing we've met in different countries. I had printed a big book with Whatsapp conversations of the last 3 years, but she didn't take it, said the Consul would ask for it if they deemed it necessary. Consul also didn't ask for it.) She explained that if my visa was approved, I wouldn't need to bring anything else with me to enter the States, (the website said they'd give me a sealed envelope, she said all of my case was electronic, including the medical examination), I would only need my passport+visa.
My recommendation there is: if you have any additional or new documentation, bring it alongside whatever you had submitted previously. I had all of the other documentation the website says (including vaccination sheet the doctor emailed me, and my husband's tax returns, W2s and I-864 form), but she didn't ask for anything else. She didn't ask for any translations either. I waited for about 30 minutes, and my name was called to a little room on the left (not the windows for the tourist/student visas). The Consul was an extremely nice lady that welcomed me, I did the oath and sat down for my interview, it was very short and simple, these were my questions, all in Spanish:
-How did you meet your husband?
-Was your husband born in the States?
-What does your husband do for a living?
-Is this your first marriage?
-Is this your husband’s first marriage?
-Has your husband visited Argentina before?
-Where did you get married?
-When did you get married?
-Who attended your wedding?
-How is his family composed?
-Have you met his family?
-Have you lived in another country?
-Have you ever worked in the US?
-Have you ever overstayed in the US?
-Have you ever been arrested?
She then said my visa was approved. She reiterated that I do not need to bring anything else with me to enter the States, only the passport+visa. She gave me a sheet of paper with my alien registration number and instructions to pay the USCIS Immigrant Fee, and another sheet of paper with my rights in regard to domestic violence. She was very nice and communicative the whole time. She returned all my original documents, and kept my passport. I picked up the passport with my visa a week later on the Santa Fe office, through the Yatri registration. After a long long process that got delayed multiple times due to my passport being expired, our lawyer taking a lot of time to submit all the documents, and a whole world pandemic (!), the interview day itself was a very good and easy one.
| | | Caracas, Venezuela | Review #27338 on October 24, 2019: |
SDC&JARR
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My experience was really positive.
I want that day just half hour before my interview appoiment, I did all the security check in time. Being in the waiting area was normal, even get to know one girl in the same process who also was an user here in visajourney we chat most of the time there and it made everything very convenient, it was like stress relief. I did the first part, I gave then my info and the documents they ask for (at that time I did not have with me my medical results) then I got called again and this time it was the real interview with the consul, she was really nice and I did prefer to talk to her in English it was easier to understand her, I just talk to her about my fiancé, she just asked me some question about him after that and checked to our photos and the again asked me about the dates of our meetings and I answered her everything. Then she gave me a blue paper because of my medical result couldn't be aviable by the time of the interview and it was the instructions to summit the results once I got them.
After my interview appointment I went to Bogota to meet with my fiancé and it was supposed for me to go back to Caracas on the 01/25/19, day when my medical results was ready to send them to the embassy, I was just arriving Caracas when the US embassy in Caracas was closed and not essential personnel was immediately evacuated. My fiancé got my case transfer for the US embassy in Bogota-Colombia.
| | | Caracas, Venezuela | Review #26297 on May 28, 2019: |
rcreyes37
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They were very kind, they asked me the typical questions of how and where we met, some simple questions of addresses and names, and they also asked me some questions about the relatives of my fiancée. I got the visa 2 weeks later in a zoom office (2017)
| | | Bogota, Colombia | Review #26109 on May 6, 2019: |
Bob & Karla
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I'm Venezuelan but all the cases from Venezuela were transferred to the Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. My interview it was schedule initially for April, 30 2019 but I left Venezuela as soon as I could because the situation and when I got to Bogota I asked for emergency appointment and I was approved right away so they gave the new day I asked. I had my interview on April, 05 2019. I got very early to the embassy around 6:40 am and I could go in that early. It was very nice inside. You can go earlier than the time you have your interview so you can come in because is K1 visa. We don't need wait like the others for tourism visa. The first control it was with a Colombian girl who asked me for all the papers listed in the Packet 3/4 ( birth certificate, divorce, criminal records, photos with full name behind, affidavit etc,etc) she put that all together inside my passport and my boys's passport too. Then we went through the security control. You must take off your jacket, leave your folders, bag etc in the Xray machine and later you take back your things. The second control is with Colombian girl also so she checks everything is ok and open your medical exams, check again all the papers. I was really concerned about my originals papers because in Venezuela doesn't exist Notarized Copy only copies or originals and very hard to get again originals papers so I asked her what is the possibility they gave me back my originals and I give to the consul only a copy and she said that is possible so she put together originals and copies and she told me ask the consul for give you back your originals so that was a relief for me hehehe. Finally she gave me a number and we must take sit and wait to be called for the number she gave me. Immigrant section always for K1 visa ( it is the green section). It was around 7:40 am and I was already waiting they open the windows ( they open at 8:00 am) . I was called around 8:30 am . The consul it was very very nice with me, a young guy. He made me many question but the interview looked like a conversation instead. He asked me how we met, when we met, how many times and dates, he asked me for the tourism visa I applied 2 years ago, more proofs our relationship so I gave him a big folder a have with pictures, tickets and everything but he only saw for 10 seconds and gave me back, I asked him for my originals papers and he didn't has any problem in gave me all my originals back even divorce decree my fiance so it was more nice my interview than I was waiting for hehe. I felt very comfortable with him. He laughed, I laughed so I felt great. No nervous, no pressures. He even told me my kids can go and take sit. He made me swear I would get married within 90 days since my arrival to USA and he told me Your visas have been approved. So he gave a red ticket for pick up our passports faster in ASC when they were ready. My interview it was on Friday and our passports were ready on Tuesday but the visa one my boys had a mistake so I had to go back next day to the embassy and on Thursday the issued it was solved. My experience in the Embassy in Bogota, Colombia it was pretty satisfying.
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