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| Ukraine |  Review on November 21, 2008: |
laterider
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Just a quick note here, we used a lawyer to orginally file for K-3/K-4 visas, however the lawyer filed the I-130/I-129F on the same day resulting on us taking a CR-1/CR-2 path.
We only had about two weeks notice for the interview date and I returned to Ukraine to go to Kiev with Viktoria and the kids for the interview. The day before we did the medical exam in Kiev which was a long day. Arrived there at 8:30 and was there until almost noon and then back again to receive results at 2:30, which we probably didn't leave until almost 4.
The interview: letter said an 8:00am appointment on the 8th, we were put in a separate line for the CR-1/2 visas and wound up with about 5 interviews in front of us. It actually just seemed it was a waiting game after we signed in at the first window. I felt very bad for Viktoria as you could tell she was just so nervous, the kids were not liking the wait either. After about an hour and a half we were called to the interview window. We spoke with the man I had meet almost a year ago to stamp the 'letter of non-impediment to marriage'. The only real question to her was: 1) How are you? Since all of us were at the interview window at the same time, he did ask Viktoria's son if he spoke any English, he replied 'a little bit'. He did also ask if I was the petitioner (there are no rules in Kiev Embassy for who actually comes to the interview - I had called the day before to confirm that I could come). He did take my passport and gave it a thorough once over (I had been to Ukraine 8 times over the past year). He then said Thanks to all of us and told me we should have the visas in about 5 days. It was really painless, I just wish Viktoria would have known that ahead of time so she wasn't so worked up.
Visas were received back actually in 3 days!!!!
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