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| Nigeria |  Review on August 24, 2007: |
Iyawo
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
For anyone going to this embassy for this type of visa, here are some important things to note when you have your own interview. My husbands interview was scheduled for 7 am and we arrived at 6:15 am just to make sure we didn't get caught in any of that Lagos holdup. That wasn't necessary because the first people that get to stand in line for appointments are people who are doing drop box only. Meaning they don't have an interview, they are just dropping their passports and getting fingerprinted. After they are in line, then the regular interviewees are allowed to queue. Once inside the embassy, people waiting to be interviewed wait until 10 am or so, when the drop box people are finished being processed before any actual interviews take place (this explains why people are always waiting hours for the interview at this embassy). From what my husband said, and what I could observe with my own eyes, it doesn't seem to matter what position you have in the line. They already have an order in which they are going to interview set up before you come. I noticed that people who were behind my husband in line where coming out before him. When my husband finally made it to the window around 1:30 pm (6 1/2 hours later) the CO spent about 7 minutes with him. She asked him these questions
1. Where we met
2. Was it a dating site?
3. What's the name of the site
4. How many times had I visited?
5. Pictures of us before we were married, at the wedding, and my visit in general.
6. Did we have a reception?
7. Emails from him to me, and from me to him.
I arranged all of our evidence in a nice 3 ring binder for him to take with him. Everything organized, labeled and sectioned off. I found out that it was pointless to do. When my husband came out of the embassy I saw the binder, and all of its contents were jumbled, disorganized, and just in general disarray. My husband told me that the binder did not fit underneath the window for the CO to view herself, so he had to pull everything that she asked to see (only pictures and emails) out of the binder and show her one by one against the window. He did slide the emails under the slot, and she looked at 2. I mistakenly printed only email from him to me, and not really any that I wrote to him. Since he didn't have his medical exam completed, the CO told him to return on any Friday at 7am with the medical exam results, and emails that I had written to him. The next week we went back with the requested information and went through the same waiting ordeal as the week before. Drop box people first...and you get the drift. We didn't arrive early this time because we knew the drill. 6 1/2 hours later he came out and told me he would pick up his visa on Tuesday at 2pm. The next week we were there at 2pm promptly. Everyone waiting at that time were waiting to pickup visas. Another waiting game though. My husband was the last to be called, and I waited outside for 2 1/2 hours. Praise God though!
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