For all the nerves that went into this, it was really smooth and anti-climactic (which was welcome!). We showed up at the consulate just before 7:00am for our 7:30am appointment. It was fantastically cold and our early arrival landed us with #1 for the day. It was right around 7:30am that they started letting us into the building - one at a time, but they were moving pretty quickly with this given how cold it was outside. The first person they let in was actually the small child of a couple behind us so that she could sit inside and wait where it was warm, which I thought was a genuinely nice touch. Our passports were checked at the front door and then we were ushered to security and sent through the metal detector. Our car keys were marked for pick up with the guards when we were done. We sat in the basement waiting room while enough people were accumulated to begin sending us upstairs in the elevator. We used this time to get our documents into the order listed on the laminated placard we were given; between the time downstairs and the time upstairs it was more than sufficient to accomplish this task. I was called up not too long after we arrived upstairs and handed over the requested documents one by one before getting fingerprinted. The woman I dealt with was very friendly and personable. Sat back down and was shortly called for the interview portion. I was asked even fewer questions than I expected - the first one was technically more of a statement than a question ("so you met online" vs. "how did you meet?"). Follow up questions were when we first began talking, and when we first met in person. Honestly, I wasn't asked much more than this ("your fiancee is employed" was again more of a statement than a question, but I did respond with an affirmative and what she does for a living) and the most substantive question (about my employment and what I might do in the US) didn't really seem to even be an interview question per say. Smiles all around and the pink approved sheet, and we were on our way! We were back at our AirBnB by 9am and that was about a 10 minute walk (time moves differently when I don't have my phone!) so we really cycled through the process quickly.
Consulate / USCIS Member Review #25695
Review on March 1, 2019:
