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| London, United Kingdom |  Review on July 22, 2011: |
kutakendra
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
I had my appointment set for 9am on the 11th July.
I made sure I was there in good time, so I could deposit my phone at Gould's pharmacy, which I did so, before joining the queue in to the embassy at around 8.30.
After getting my appointment letter and passport checked, I was called to go through security. I had to remove my belt and place all my paperwork in to a tray to be scanned. The security guard asked me if I had any electronic greetings cards in my file, which I did, so I was asked to dispose of or deposit them at Gould's. I chose to dispose of them for no reason, other than wanting to get in and out of the embassy.
Once inside, I was given a ticket number (I918), which I took and went to sit in the waiting room. I immediately went to get a drink from the far end of the waiting room and sat down. They were up to around I912 with immigrant applicants according to the screens, but non-immigrant applicants were being called up every few seconds, with immigrant applicants having a much longer wait between calls.
After around an hour, I was called to window 1, I was asked my fiancee's name. Then asked for her 2010 tax return and I-134. I handed them to the British-S.E. Asian guy and he started organising my file. He then asked me for my police certificate and birth cerificate and asked "your certificate says 'no trace', but you say you have been arrested for drunk and disorderly?", (I had already discussed this with the doctor at my medical), to which I replied honestly. I was then given the pink courier slip and asked to sit back down and wait for my number to be called.
After around another hour I was called to window 16, where I was greeted by an Asian-American lady and an older American man behind her. I was pretty nervous by this point. She first asked me to print my fiancee's name and sign my own at the bottom of my application form, before asking me first of all, where my fiancee and I met, what I intended to do for work in the US, what my fiancee's profession is and how many times we'd seen each other over the 29 months since we met. On the final question, I handed her photos of all the occasions we've been together, which I had organised into separate, translucent envelopes. The CO only looked at the front photo in each envelope, except one, because the front photograph was of my fiancee alone, so she lifted another photo out from behind it and closed the envelope, before declaring, "your visa's been approved"! I was then instructed to go to the DX couriers desk to organise delivery.
I went in expecting to be interrogated and came out having had a relatively pleasant experience, so all in all, not a bad experience at all.
I did take with me, large amounts of evidence and my fiancee's financial documents, of which I only needed photographs, birth certificate, police certificate, I-134 and tax returns. I wasn't even asked for any DS forms. I would still take as much as I had, if I needed to do it all again, though.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #7980