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Montreal, Canada | Review on December 6, 2018: | IndigoFlowers
Rating: | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Arrived at the consulate at approximately 7:05 am for my 7:30 am appointment. There were already 5 people ahead of me. At 7:25 am, the lights to the entrance of the consulate turned on. At 7:30 am a security guard came outside and started letting people in two at a time. Once inside you hand your passport and appointment letter to the person at the door, who then sticks a sticker with your name on the back of your passport. This person also hands you a sheet with a number on it and a list of the documents you need in the order they want. After this, you are instructed to go through security where you take off your coat, take everything out of your pockets, and go through a metal detector. After, you are instructed to go downstairs and wait.
My number was #6, and when downstairs I had more than enough time to arrange my documents. Then a security guard comes, and instructs everyone to get in the elevator and he sends you up to the 19th floor. On the 19th floor you sit and wait for your number to be called. It was around 8:15 by the time I was called for the first time. This was to hand over all the required documents and get finger printed, which takes about 5-7 minutes. The woman was very friendly, confirmed my Canada contact info, as well as my USA information. When it came down to financial documents, she asked for the I-134 and the most recent tax info. I had both the IRS tax transcripts and my fiance's entire tax return from last year. I told her I had both, and she said she would take both of them. She asked if I had anything else for financial documents and I had two bank statements from my fiancé from Sept & Oct, as well as a document from his bank saying when he opened his account (I was not able to get an official letter from an officer of the bank with the total amount deposited in the last year but this didn't seem like a problem). She asked about W2's but my fiancé is self-employed and owns his own business so he doesn't have any, and this was not a problem. For the police report part, I told her I had a bunch of them with me (privacy act, name check, and finger prints for "the purpose of immigration"), but handed her the privacy act one and she said "Yes this is good", so I kept all of the other ones and didn't hand them over.
After handing in the documents I went and sat down, and waited about another 30-40 minutes to be called for the interview portion - for some reason this time flew by though. The view from the 19th floor was beautiful, but the security guards are a bit prickly so I didn't want to stand to admire it in case they got upset with me. The interviewer was a very pleasant man who was friendly and warm. It was a bit difficult to hear him but the interview went great. He asked the following questions
1. Fiancé's full name
2. City and state my fiancé lives in, and if that is where we will live together when I move there
3. How my fiancé and I met
4. Asked me about my fiance's business and what he does (he actually referenced the fact that I told the first lady who took my documents that my fiancé had his own business!)
5. What my longest stay in the USA was (I said "About a month and a half" and that was sufficient)
6. If I had lived anywhere other than Canada
7. If I had left North America in the last 5 years
8. If this was my fiancé and I's first marriage
During this process he also took time to explain the rights of an immigrant in case of any abuse occurs during the relationship. After all of this he said that the interview was done, handed me the pink slip, explained how the entry with the K1 visa will work and asked if I had any questions. Can't wait to get my visa in my hands!!
Great experience. One note, make sure you have photocopies of birth certificates & passport bio page!!! One family was told to leave to go down the street to photocopy their documents and then come back - which took them 45 minutes!
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