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| Sydney, Australia |  Review on October 25, 2017: |
amishbaby
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
My fiancee's interview was 9/26/17. He wrote about his experience and I'm posting this for him.
"I went over my K1 papers and made sure that everything I needed was still in our K1 folder before I left.
I opened up Google Maps and typed in "MLC centre" as I started walking, which was a pretty short walk from the hotel I was staying at. I got to the MLC Centre and asked someone at the security desk how to get to my interview. They ended up telling me to go to level 10. I wasn't very familiar with where I was going inside the MLC centre. I went on the elevator and pressed level 10. I sent a quick message to my fiancee to let her know I made it and shut my phone off since you're not allowed to have it on.
I walked in the door and waited in line as I watched everyone else do what they had to do. I realized what I was going to be doing myself as I watched others. After I waited for a bit, it was my turn to go to a desk with two women that asked for my checklist to make sure I had everything on it with me. She asked for specific papers and I pulled them out for them. They put it together as a packet before I had my interview. After that, I had to wait in line to go through security. It was roughly 10 minutes of waiting to get through security, which they basically wanted you to place the items you're bringing with you upstairs in a little tub, and sort out what you're keeping with security because certain items can't be taken with you during your interview. I grabbed a ticket that shows the items staying downstairs that belong to me. I asked if I could take my bottle of water up and had no problem as long as I took a sip of water in front of them to prove it's really water, so I took a sip and they allowed me to bring it with me. I waited to be called in the waiting area for about 15 minutes and sat patiently until I was called with two other people to go on the elevator to the interview. My nerves were going crazy at that point, but I dealt with it in a positive way and was feeling joyful about the interview. Finally, I'm in the room where I have my interview. I'm feeling pretty excited at this point so I get off the elevator, walk around the corner to my right and go through a heavy security door into the interview room. I walked to the ticket machine and grabbed a ticket and waited until I was called to seal the deal on whether we were approved or not. I walked around and sat down while waiting. I'm not sure how long I waited to do my biometrics and handing over my paperwork. I sat and patiently waited for my number to be called, meanwhile I was listening to what was going on around me and the questions being asked. I will say, there were a lot of people that didn't take all of their documents, so that seemed to have been one of the biggest problems. As long as you bring all your documents that they asked about within the checklist, everything is smooth sailing and absolutely nothing to worry about. After some time they called my number and it was time for biometrics. I handed my paper under the glass window and had to scan both my right and left hands with my fingers together, and one with my two thumbs together. They told me if they needed any additional information from me they would call me back up. I took a seat and continued to listen to people get questioned and approved. As I heard more and more interviews, I wasn't as nervous as I originally was and ended up quite comfortable despite the circumstances. Biometrics called me back and gave some papers back to me, and then I sat back down as I continued waiting for the interview. The longest part of everything was sitting and waiting for your number to be called for your interview. I was very patient and allowed this time to utilize what specific questions were being asked and the success rate of the approvals. Finally, my number was called and my interview was next. I walked up to the window and the female interviewer said hello to me and I kindly said it back to her. I was asked the following questions:
1. Who is the petitioner?
In between these two questions the interviewer pointed out that the town my fiancee is from and the town I'm moving to was only 40 minutes from the area she grew up in.
2. How did you two meet and how did your relationship develop? I told her that we met on Facebook in a psychology group where we started to then message each other on Facebook messenger before moving over to Skype where we hardly ever disconnected.
3. What does Megan (the petitioner) do for a living? I told her that my fiancee was in college full time studying marketing and when she isn't studying she spends time with her daughter.
4. Are you currently working? I answered no.
5. Do you plan to work in the United States? I told her after I get work authorization I plan to work. I answered the proper way of answering this question which the interviewer actually seemed happy because she said I was the only one that answered the question right that day and reminded me to keep the same answers after getting through POE. I have to add that we had many issues that we were expecting to be brought up at the interview but they never asked me anything about it. They only asked me about our relationship and seems they only pay attention to whether or not the relationship is bona fide. They didn't ask about my past visa denials, errors on the DS-160 that didn't match with the ESTA waiver, and the fact that I was approved for an ESTA waiver when I shouldn't have been because of an error made for the question, "Did you ever get denied a visa?" I have and it was selected no. We were warned many times by people through VisaJourney and attorneys that we would be denied and have to file an I-601A waiver but we were approved and nothing was asked about any of the things we were concerned with.
6. What do you plan to do for work? I told her factory work, labor, or anything I could pick up.
7. When did you meet in person? September, 2016.
8. When was the last time you seen Megan (the petitioner)? December 23rd, 2016.
9. Who is the co-sponsor? Megan's uncle.
After being asked these questions they said that It looks like everything is in order and we were approved. They said we would receive our visa within one to two weeks. I have to mention that I got the visa in the mail with my POE documents within 3 days so I ended up flying out on October 2nd and were getting married November 11th. Everything went pretty fast for us!
I kindly responded with a "thank you", and they responded back with "you're welcome, have a good day."
I walked out of the room and back to the elevator. I waited to go down to grab all my stuff and tell my fiancee the great news. I collected my items and gave them the ticket back. I left the consulate and messaged my fiance right away to tell her we were approved.
All around, my experience was excellent and I'm glad to be apart of this great process. It has been a dream come true for me. The stress is well worth it in the end.
I give the Sydney Consulate 5 out of 5 stars.
Everything goes smooth as long as you bring all your paperwork, be honest, and have a bona-fide relationship.
I had a great experience and hope this was helpful for many others."
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #22728