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| London, United Kingdom |  Review on June 1, 2016: |
slimbolina
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Appointment was booked using the new online format. Interview was scheduled for 12pm, arrived at 11am but were allowed to go straight through security with no queuing. Security checked the confirmation letter that you print when you've booked your interview online together with your passport, you then go around to the security booth where your letter and passport are checked again and then through the security screening, you get directed around to the right and up some steps into the embassy. There you go to reception where your documents are checked once more (3rd time lucky?), a ticket number is printed and stuck to your confirmation letter then you go upstairs to the waiting room. Here you just wait until your number is called up on the big screen (keep an eye on this as numbers are not called in any particular order). My window was around the corner and down a corridor, just walk past the people queuing and straight to your window.
Here they had my file and did a quick checklist of questions, took my passport and passport photograph (only one was required and I took a UK passport photo), she took my birth certificate, police record, affidavit of support and divorce certificates. She asked me if I had lived in any other country than the UK, when I planned to leave the UK and then she went to get my medical records to give me my chest xray but unfortunately they lost it! I was still okay to have my interview without it. Fingerprints are taken here too. From here I was given my appointment letter back with another sticker with my original number on it and told to go back to the waiting room and wait for my number to be called for my interview.
At about 12.15pm I was called up. I went to the window and was greeted by a very pleasant woman, the first thing she said to me was 'you've been married before' and then she was a bit confused about me having a son and him not going with me, she was expecting both of us at the interview, but it was my fiance's son she was confused with, but anyway, the questions went like this and although not necessarily in order, they weren't quickfire questions, it was a chit chat (not like over coffee or anything but it was really quite relaxing and not interrogating at all), imagine being sat next to a stranger on a plane and you get talking, it's pretty much like that:
How did you meet?
Tell me about the online game and how you chatted to each other.
When did you meet him online?
When did you become friends on Facebook?
When did you first meet each other in person?
Have you ever been to the States to meet him?
How many times?
Where does he live?
How far is that from Missouri?
Where will you live?
What do you do for a living?
What does he do for a living?
Why America and not England?
When do you plan to leave?
When do you plan to get married?
When was the last time you saw each other?
I did expand on all of my answers, not just one or two word answers.
Then she said she had everything she needed and congratulations, I will go ahead and approve your visa.
My advice... don't just stand there and stare and say 'really?' haha, it was THAT relaxed, she didn't mind she laughed and said uh huh!! I then asked if that was it, do I just go, she said 'yep', congratulations. Then you just leave by the exit behind you, down the opposite set of stairs you go up originally and boom, job's done!
All in all I was there for about 90 minutes and the interview itself took no more than 15.
I will also point out that I was not asked for the employer letter, pay stubs or any other documentation other than what was taken from me initially. I don't know if this is for everyone or if it was just that officer on that particular day. Still though, take EVERYTHING!
Hope this helps somewhat. Remember every single case is different and if you're confident and enthusiastic about your fiance then your interview should be more of curious questioning than interrogation, it flowed nicely for me and the questions came naturally and just as you'd expect a conversation would.
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