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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on September 28, 2015: |
Anthony and Becky
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
The appointment was at 7:40 am. We (the petitioner and I) arrived shortly after 7:00 am and it looked like there were 4 people ahead of us.
Around 7:30 the security guys came out to put the tinsel barriers up and the guy in the shirt marked CSC started reviewing documents for the people ahead of us.
The second person in line was turned away due to his backpack (he was told to either bring it to his hotel room or rent a locker at the Eaton Center)
When he got to us, he asked to see the DS-160 and made sure that we had signed up for the Loomis pickup. He then gave us card #3 and let us in.
The metal detector was fine, they asked us to remove one of those musical greeting cards from our proof papers and leave it with the rest of our personal effects (keys, fiancee's Apple Watch). We were then told to go downstairs and wait.
We waited in the room downstairs for around 10 minutes, then the security guards cam down and started herding people towards the elevator. We made it onto the second trip up.
Don't worry about what other people have said on here about waiting near the elvator or trying to get into the elevator first to be the first one out (the exit on the 19th floor is the back door of the elevator) because it doesn't matter. We were card #3 and were the first ones called.
Our number was called right away to go to window #12.
The lady there was really nice and had a sense of humour. Her job was to collect our documents and finger print me (the beneficiary). My fiancée was with me. We actually asked her if she needed specific documents like the petitioner's proof of residence and she said "if you have them, sure." She also said that it would not have been necessary to have my birth & divorce certificates translated, but that if I had the translations, she would take them. Once she was done, she asked us to go sit down again and wait until they called our number.
We sat down for another 15 minutes and they called us to window #8. The guy there was also really friendly. He started out by asking me to read an oath out loud basically to confirm that everything I was about to say was true under penalty of perjury. He then asked my fiancée to see her passport (nothing in the documentation we had received said anything about her bringing it, but happy we did).
He re-checked my left hand finger prints then looked through our documents that the previous lady had taken. When he got to the letters of intent, he mentioned that it was the first time that he had received letters from both the petitioner and beneficiary. Apparently the only one they really need is the one from the petitioner.
He asked us a couple of questions like how we had met, when we said online he asked us jokingly whether it had been a website or a game. We asked him if a lot of people met through gaming, he laughed and said that some people send in screenshots of their WoW characters. We asked him about his job and whether he himself was a US Citizen, he spoke about his previous job in China, and that it had taken his wife 3 years to go through the process. All in all, I think we asked him more questions than he asked us. He started giving us our original documents back, asked us if we were part of the online forums for the process, and said that there was no bad news here, slipped the Welcome to the United States letter through the opening and said that my visa would be printed tomorrow and would likely be able to pick it up in Montreal on Friday.
We had brought a LOT of relationship proof and were never asked for it once, but really happy that we went in prepared.
All in all it was a great experience but hopefully one we will never have to go through again. 
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #17897