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| Caracas, Venezuela |  Review #22952 on December 11, 2017: |
Diego&Dianna
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Today (Dec. 11, 2017) was my fiance's interview at the U.S. embassy in Caracas for the K1 visa. His interview was scheduled for 9:00 a.m. and he arrived there around 7:45 a.m. His first interview was with a Venezuelan woman who worked at the embassy and was conducted in Spanish. He said she asked him basic questions such as my name, where I lived, my phone number, and stuff like that. She also started to ask him about his previous stays in the U.S. and was giving him a bit of a hard time about that since during one of those stays he was here 7 and a half months due to a previous application he had for a U.S. student visa however it was not considered an "overstay" because he had that pending application with the government. She finished up with him and he told me he waited about an hour and a half and he had a second interview this time with an American woman. She asked him more detailed questions about how we met, when I have gone to visit him, about my previous marriage, why did my previous marriage fail, what was my daughters name, what's my address, will he work when he is here, how do we communicate, what types of stuff do we fight about, has he met or spoken to anyone in my family, have i met his family, our wedding plans and she also asked him about his previous student visa application. He said they really grilled him during the interview. She was impressed with his English and asked where he learned to speak English so well, of course from me  haha! All in all though his interview with the American woman lasted about 25 minutes and she informed him she was approving the visa and that it should be ready in 2-3 weeks. Thank God!!! After this whole process we are both so ecstatic that we'll finally be together. Good luck to everyone else who is reading this for an upcoming interview 
| | | Caracas, Venezuela | Review #22878 on November 24, 2017: |
Mahrdol
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Here Experience with the Venezuelan Embassy was not positive at all.
Before I even get to the interview here is my experience with some correspondence before the interview.
1. Received my NVC approval letter stating that the Caracas Embassy will contact me/fiancee with an available appointment time. I waited weeks for that. No effort was ever made on their part. I finally found information online that stated they wouldn't. This misleading information probably cost me 4 to 6 weeks. I sent emails and never received any nonautomated replies back from the embassy. I did receive an acknowledgment email with broken links to information that was no longer there.
2. I finally was able to sign up but there were no appointments available. I called NVC and a customer service rep told me told I should check the website every day and look for an appointment. So I did for 1 month and finally, I was able to get an appointment almost 2 months from that date. I received a letter from the embassy saying congratulations and these the documents needed for the appointment.
3. With all the required documents in hand, my fiancee goes to the appointment. The actual interview was degrading and humiliating. They place all the K-1 interviewers in a room and they grill them in front of everybody.
They ask questions like
How did we meet? Why do I not speak Spanish fluently? Why did I marry her? How was my son? How old is he? Why did I get divorced? When was the last time we communicated? How old am I? What is my cell number? Who paid for the Visa and the travel cost when we met. They ask the question over and over, several times. They try to force part of the interview questions in English.
This didn't happen to my fiancee but she watched other girls answer these questions, embassy employees are openly mocking, ridiculing and laughing at the girl responses. In some cases not even giving them a chance to respond.
So she was approved but wait you need another document that was not listed as a required documents. You need to send that document and in weeks from then you will get your visa. So we on another opened ended waiting for a document we could have easily provided if they had listed it.
These are some of the keywords she used to describe what she saw at the embassy, humiliating, rude, aggressive and evil.
I hope this will help some avoid the same traps that happened to me. Overall I am deeply hurt that as a country we don't hold ourselves to a higher standard. The good news is we are approved and this draconian process is almost at an end.
| | | Caracas, Venezuela | Review #22230 on July 26, 2017: |
Cristal y Rubén
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| | | Caracas, Venezuela | Review #22167 on July 19, 2017: |
Mariale256
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| | | Caracas, Venezuela | Review #22137 on July 12, 2017: |
dulcecandela
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Our experience in the Embassy was good. My fiance's interview was at 8am. Due to the ongoing protests, we decided to arrive at 6:30am. They have lockers available which you can stow away your electronic devices which are not allowed in the embassy. We passed the first checkpoint, where you are asked to make sure to not bring in any electronic devices. We then passed the next checkpoint where we went through the metal detectors and search of our belongings. Once we informed the person we were there for an inmigrant visa interview he directed us to grab a ticket number and be seated until our number is called. We were called by a Venezuelan young woman who proceeded to ask my fiancé for his documentation (birth certificate, passport, divorce certificate, medical records. Proof of visa payment, etc) She then asked me to sit down while she asked him the following questions (how did we meet, how many times we've seen each other, when did he propose, what we both do for a living). Once my fiancé answered all the questions, she asked him to be seated and wait for the Consulate Interview. At 12pm we were informed the embassy was closing for lunch and would re-open at 1pm. After the lunch break, my fiancé was called around 1:25pm. This was a young American Consulate who spoke Spanish very well. Once she noticed I was there she greeted me with a smile and asked me to sit while she spoke to my fiancé. I sat down and she asked my fiancé the following questions (how did we meet, when our divorces took place, how did he propose and when, what were our wedding plans) Finally she called me back up to the window and tells my fiancé "Congratulations, your visa has been approved" We were very relieved and happy to hear those words! Our interview with her lasted about 5 minutes. Overall the only complaint was the length of time we waited, we were out of there by 1:30pm. Good luck to everyone, this is a long process but well worth the wait!
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