Vietnam US Consulate Reviews
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311 Review(s)
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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |  Review #31956 on April 10, 2023: |
gordonsmith
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
I, the American citizen, did not attend the interview. I stayed in the US.
My fiance arrived at 6:30am, no line yet and everyone was waiting at the cafe across the street. Around 7:20 the consulate allowed people to line up. My fiance got inside and submitted the required documents at the first window: passport, ID, visa photos, police check, birth certificates, household book, etc. and was told to sit down and wait.
Around 1 hour later, my fiance was called to the next window for the interview. The officer did not ask to look at any of my fiance's evidence, which compiled into 3 binders. There were only 3 questions:
- How/when did you meet your fiance?
- What does your fiance do for a living?
- What do you do for a living?
After that, the officer said the case was approved. All in all, the interview lasted around 2 minutes. After reading other experiences at the HCMC consulate, we were surprised at how quick and simple it was. Every case is different, I suppose.
We received the visa by courier 12 days later.
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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Review #31613 on November 29, 2022: |
TmcMaximus
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Interview went well. American staff was friendly, Vietnamese staff were not.
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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Review #31530 on October 31, 2022: |
Karmachewy
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The interview was just fine. My (now) wife (then, fiancée) did not have to wait long, and the interview went well: our application was approved. We had “front-loaded†our application with a lot of pictures, at well known, easily recognizable (at least to Immigration Officers at the Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City) photos of us together (we had traveled around the country, so we submitted photos of us in front of landmarks (such as the Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi, Halong Bay, the Imperial City in Hue, The Dragon Bridge in Danang, and some famous sites there in Ho Chi Minh City. One which I w came up with myself, and was particularly proud of, was a photo Isfahan the two of us, in front if her Mother’s house, showing the house number placards (which would end up matching her address on our application.))) I think that all of these photos helped.
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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Review #31046 on May 12, 2022: |
Kissima123
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We entered the consulate for my wife’s CR1 interview in a line with about 70 others. I was expecting to go where I had done notarisations before, but this was a much larger area with 19 service windows. The line first queued to a single window to receive service numbers. Then each case sat down waiting for their number to be called and displayed. Upon being called to one of the 19 windows people were asked for the documents required for their case. We gave documents quickly while others seem to fumble for up to 15 minutes. We organised as directed on consulate website so it went quick. Then sat again waiting to be called for interview.
Five windows were open for the interviews. We watched and tried to listen. We could tell some people struggled for answers to some challenging questions about their bona fide relation. We saw sad blue slip faces, but smiling faces too after interviews. One particular window #15 was taking much longer to process cases and asked more questions than other windows. As our number approached we were cheering and hoping against getting #15. We got #15.
The officers, one Caucasian one Asian, asked me to let my wife answer questions herself. 1. How and when did we meet. She answered wrong by two years, 2017 instead of 2015. From there her timeline got off track a bit. 2. When did i first visit her he asked, also she missed by two years. At which point I asked to help because she was nervous, he gently told me it was ok, that he was more interested in her presentation. 3. What did I do for a living, and 4. where will we live in the US? She nailed both. 5. Who was watching my place in US while I lived here? She fumbled a bit about me selling my home in the US, but recovered to explain that my sister was living and watching the home I own that we are traveling too. She mentioned my sister’s name in her answer. The officer said thank you and wished us good luck, our visa would arrive in a couple weeks he said. #15 wasn’t too bad after all. We will have dinner and drinks tonight.
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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Review #30924 on April 5, 2022: |
Bill Hamze
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Got to the consulate at 7 am, and had our interview at around 9 am. Questions asked were:
1. Where did you meet?
2. Where was your child born?
3. How many times did your husband visit you in Vietnam?
Three easy questions and our visa was approved. We front-loaded our docs at I-130 and NVC, and being present as a USC with my wife also helped. The interviewer and translator were very nice and pleasant.
(updated on April 5, 2022)
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