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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review on August 18, 2017: |
JB209
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Arrived to the embassy very early at 6AM but like others posted, they will not start taking people until 6:45ish. While 6:45 AM comes, you have to wait outside across the street to the south (big barren sidewalk). Then at 6:45 AM through a very good PA system they call people, Immigrant visas (family based, fiance, refugee) to line 3 and non-immigrant (tourism, student, work) to line 1. They mentioned on the PA that they would take all immigrant visa applicants regardless of their appointment time, therefore it pays to go early if you wish; while non-immigrants would have to be strictly at their appointment times.
Once on the line 3, a girl comes asking for your passport, two photos with your full name on the back, police certificate, birth certificate and medical exams. She reviews it, scratches you from the list, places a green sticker on you and your passport and asks you to go ahead to security. At the security point, they only asked me to put on the tray cellphone, jacket and my folder with the documents while I walked through the metal detector.
Then kept walking to the actual embassy building where tow girls on a table review the documents requested before and scratched my name from another list. They directed me to window 31 or 32 where the pre-interview happens. Here a Colombian girl reviewed these documents, opened the medical exams envelope and asked me for the marriage certificate. Asked me who is petitioning and whether she is USC or LPR. Then returned the documents including a big paper with a number on it directed me to windows 2-6 to wait for 8AM when they would start calling according to the number given before.
At 8:10 AM I got called, and gave my documents. there CO sworn me in and started the interview:
Who is your petitioner?
How and when did you meet?
When did you started dating?
When did you get married?
Has she been to Colombia?
Where is she right now?
What is she doing?
Who is the 2nd petitioner?
CO was very nice and patient, and was typing all the time while the interview was going. CO did not ask for any extra documents, no I-864 forms, no proof of relationship, no proof of petitioner status in the US.
At the end, CO gave me the domestic violence sheet, told me my visa was approved, returned a huge packet of documents from the NVC (some documents not all of them) and gave me the instruction to pay USCIS fee. Then told me my visa should be on my hands in two weeks.
Very great experience and very nice people.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #22357