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| London, United Kingdom |  Review on August 1, 2015: |
yuna628
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Helpful tips for drivers: There is an NCP parking lot the London Millennium Hotel which is not as affordable as NCP parking lot on Welbeck Street (near the place you have your medical). The price you'd pay is half than what you would pay closer to the embassy as long as you're willing to walk further.
For those needing cosponsors: For London don't be concerned if you need a cosponsor, so long as you can provide good evidence of support.
My fiancé joined the queue at 25 minutes past 12, for his 1pm appointment. There was only 4 other people. You put your items into the security checkpoint and went around to the right of the building, then you go up the steps to the reception desk. Reception was pleasant and you get some stickers put on your interview letter. Then you go up the stairs and to the left; by the time he sat down it was 28 minutes past. He was number 30, and they were seeing tickets 24 and 25 by the time he arrived, so he wasn't having to wait very long. There are a lot of info videos on the screens to pass the time. Make sure to have all your documents organized and ready to go, it helps to be prepared. He was called to window 2 at 1:05pm and spoke to the man at the booth. He gave him his passport and other documents. For some reason they did not want the DS160 confirmation page they tell you to bring. He asked about if he had paid for the visa and asked some basic questions. He scanned in the photo and documents and returned them, and by the time he sat down it was around 1:12pm. He was called to window 16 after a few more minutes. The individual seemed like she was a new trainee but was polite. She took his fingerprints to start and he took the oath. My fiancé has a thick accent so she could not understand him at first. There were not very many questions and there was no need for any additional evidence.
The questions were:
How did you meet?
When did you first meet in person?
How the relationship progress over the past ten years?
Who would be supporting him? (we used a cosponsor so there were some additional questions to confirm who the cosponsor was)
Why his fiancé was not currently employed at the moment?
She told him we were approved, the date of when we should marry by, and that it would arrive within two weeks. She did not tell him what direction he should go to exit the building. He wandered around back the way he came in, hoping not to get into trouble for going the wrong way. All in all he had left the embassy by 1:22pm. Not very long at all.
His interview came at exactly 300 days to the day we sent in the initial packet and we had no RFE's. Surreal that such a long wait came down to something so simple.
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