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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on January 25, 2017: |
CocoRico
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Hi guys! I had the interview at the Montreal Consulate today, and it pretty much looks like anything else you can read about interviews positive experiences, but I'm going to tell you anyways ( I know how good it can feel to read about how it's actually pretty smooth when you overthink in the anticipation of it!)
My fiancé and I arrived at 6:55 am for our appointment which was scheduled at 7:45, there was already someone waiting for the k1 at the door. Once they open the doors, you are allowed to enter one by one. My fiancé came in Montreal to accompany me to the interview, but for some reason the agent at the door told me that he couldn't enter, and even after I told him my lawyers told me he was allowed to, he said that it's not the lawyers that can decide that and that I couldn't let him in. A lady that came in after me came with her fiancé and had no problems, I think there might have been a misunderstanding with the officer and I, but anyways, my love had to go wait for me at a nearby Starbucks.
Once you enter, you are asked to hand out your passeport (on which they stamp a little sticker) and your paiement confirmation (some people were asked to show their DS-160 confirmation page, but it wasn't the case for me). The person then hands out a little plastic sheet with the order that you have to put your things in.
If I remember right, it's:
-Confirmation letter
-Passeport and photocopies of passeport
-Passeport size pictures
-Birth certificate
-Letter of intent
-Police certificate
-I134
-Tax return
Afterwards, you are directed to a metal detector, pretty much just like at the airport, and then they send you to a little waiting room where you all gather and then there's an officer who directs people in batch in the elevator that leads you to the 19th floor, where the interview takes place. On the sheet that says the order that your paperwork must be, there is a number. I was number 2, and really I got out of the consulate at 8:45 am. Arrive early, it pays 
You are first called to a glassed desk, where an agent asks you to hand him one by one the documents that were written on the sheet with the number. He also takes your fingerprints. It takes about 10 minutes, then he sends you back to the waiting area. You are then called with the same number, and here goes the interview!! It was pretty short and sweet for me, I had an awesome agent at the 7th desk, the guy asked me basic questions about the relationship and my previous stays in the US, took my fingerprints and basically told me I'd receive the visa within a week or a week and a half.
We had made mistakes in filing our I-129f and he didn't say anything about it, but I had a paper from my lawyers to correct it all and after the interview I told it to the agent, who seemed to think that it was no big deal but he was like: Okay well yeah I guess i'll take it and put it in your file (So much worries for my fiancé and I (mostly I) that were in the end not a big deal at all!)
So that was it for us, the really stressful part is over! Which you all the best of luck
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