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| Juarez, Mexico |  Review on February 12, 2007: |
New Yorker
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Well Im back from Juarez. It really sucks!!!! It feels like we hit rock bottom in civilization!! We stayed in a hotel right next to the consulate, between a ton of mom and pop restaurants, Taxis, and immigration coyotes!!. They practically pull you into their cardboard offices with the promise of Free advice in any immigration issue and then the truth comes out: “ orale guerita! Son 200 dolares if i fill out any form For you. Jaja!
Now this was my journey:
Medical on wednesday: we went to the clinic at 6 am. They took my appointment letter and passport, then i waited for two hours to be called. They took blood samples and they left marks on my arm like i was a victim of domestic violence!! then waited for another 30 minutes
And I was called for x-rays, and physical examination. I felt like a porn star! Jaja. I was in a room with the nurse, she took my blood pressure and asked to strip down to my birthday suit!! Then a very nice female dr came in.. She asked me to lay down face up. She checked my eyes, mouth, nose and breasts, genitals too..
Ive been diabetic since childhood, so i decided to let her know ahead of time that ive been taking a loooooooot of medicines. Even Amphetamines to lose weight, and she asked to physically see the medicines in her hand, so i pleased her by showing her the bottle. I also offered my prescriptions and a letter signed by my doctor. She said it wasn’t necessary.
During the medical examination she took time to ask me questions about my case like:
have you
ever had problems with immigration? What was your problem?
do you have any kids?
how long have you been on medication?
do you feel fine?
have you ever used drugs?
when was your last cycle?
I left the clinic at 9 am and was asked to return at 2 pm for my results. I actually went back at 3 pm but the security gate was locked!! We had to push open the parking lot Gate to get into the clinic that was still open.. uff!! They gave me a big black envelope.
Interview day on thursday (now im writing English without my boy watching!!
I got in line at 7:20 am.. we were like 120 people.. I passed security (not even makeup, umbrellas and mirrors allowed) and I went to Building C. at the entry I had to give my app letter to a woman. (and everyone else too) I waited until 11:am and I was called, an examiner who already had all my 129F, received my papers as follows:
1. Passport
2. 2 pictures
3. Forms ds156 and ds156k
4. original birth certificate and copy
5. Letter of intent to be signed in front of her
6. payment –banamex
7. medical
8. Affidavit of support (she did not want to receive my own funds, got my fiancé’s and co-sponsor instead)
9. And I offered a special statement I wrote in detail about my overstay (I think this really helped me to be free of a waiver). She received it.
She did not even see NOA2 or any other paper.
QUESTIONS AT THIS WINDOW:
Have you
ever been in problems with immigration?
Where is your tourist visa?
Where is your fiancé right now?
Have you or your fiancé been married?
Whats the name of his ex-wife?
Did they have kids of that marriage
?
After that, I went back to my seat and waited 30 minutes for fingerprints just for the index. They are free.
Then I went to Building B and waited until 1.30pm. While I was waiting I talked to a lot of people.. most of them were there for the green card, waivers, not for fiancée visas.. That place was crowded and I found a seat just in front of a window where a consul denied alllll petitions.. he was so mean, rude.. (oh there are 15 consuls interviewing).. but I was checking on other consuls and people got their green cards.. I saw a lot, I mean a lot of approvals.
(the funny thing is from 1 to 2pm all consuls closed their windows and went for lunch..during that time only 2 people out of maybe 700 were called.. a guy and I!!
I was eating a fruit bar at the moment I heard my name.. I ran looking for the window and finally found it.
I LOVED MY CONSUL
Behind it was a beautiful consul (woman) she had all my 129F and papers I gave before to the examiner, all papers sprawled over her desk, also pictures we sent one year ago with the original petition!! (she told me they had a bunch of pictures of us and returned me a sealed envelope (Vermont letterhead) containing 60 pictures! (we sent 74)!!
My interview was smooth just because she was so nice to me.. my time in front of her window was 11 minutes but I notice that most of the interviews last 5 minutes. After all questions she told me, you’ve got your visa, go back to your seat and wait to be called again. She NEVER saw my original evidence.. so I carried 20 pounds of evidence just for fun
QUESTIONS IN MY INTERVIEW:
Where is your fiancé now?
What is your full name?
Have u ever used a different name?
What is your fiancé full name?
Have you or him been married?
When did he get married, what year?
How and when you met your fiancé?
Does he has kids from the ended marriage?
Do you have kids with your fiancé?
Are you diabetic?
Do u use insulin?
Where does your fiancé work? Doing what?
(I responded he works in a company in SoHo, NY)
where is soho?
What soho means? What is it there?!!
I know you have been in the US before, how did you enter?
Where is your tourist visa?
Why they cancelled your visa?
Ho do you know exactly how many days you overstayed?
-I offered evidence- but she said was not necessary.
So, how many months you overstayed?
Your I-94 was good for 6 months?
Where exactly do they took your visa off?
Whats the name of that bridge?
Did you get deportation? I said NO, voluntary departure and I left the US on time..
After you departed voluntarily, have you tried to enter the US?
Date when u plan to marry?
Where do you plan to marry?
after the interview I wait until 3.30 pm to receive the VISA (stamped in passport) and the famous brown envelope.. 3 fiancees received visa at the same time, same window, with same instructions.
-only if a fiance is planning to enter the US from Texas, needs to got o Cordova bridge and receive an I-94. if is entering by plane to any other state, it is not necessary.
- visas expire in 6 months. good for one entry.
and the brown envelope is cut open on a corner by the consulate. I can see whats in there. . almost all 129f-original petition and evidence.. pictures! medical with picture, a bunch of papers from consulate with fiancee name, case numbers, etc, paystubs and "original" evidence from the affidavit.
And that was all!
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