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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review on December 9, 2011: |
fdm505
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
On November 8, 2011, my fiance along with her 14 year old son and 12 year old daughter all went together to the USA Embassy in Bogota for the long awaited Fiance Visa Interview. I was in the USA working that day and my 3 kids were in school in the USA that day. My fiance had scheduled the interview date online after she was confident that she had everything needed for the interview. Apparently, they have a new system for scheduling interview dates in Bogota and they are now scheduled online by the interviewee. She never received anything in the mail. I had provided her with information that I received in the mail earlier.
I had emailed her many of these VisaJourney.com reviews for K1 interviews in Bogota so she would be better prepared too.
All 3 visas (1 K1 and 2 K2 visas) were approved that same day (November 8, 2011)! Later, that same day, I purchased online 3 one way airplane tickets from Bogota to the USA.
The following week, she traveled back to Bogota and picked up all 3 Colombian passports with USA visas affixed to them. Unfortunately, all 3 visas listed the gender as female. Her son was not happy. He did not want to be a senorita in the USA. javascript:emoticon(' ')
She contacted the embassy and they scheduled another appointment for Monday the following week to correct her sons visa since the gender on it was incorrect. Apparently, an embassy employee made a mistake. The forms we submitted clearly had identified her son as a male. We were concerned since all 3 of them planned to fly to the USA 3 days after the day she was asked to return to the embassy to have the K2 visa corrected. On Monday, she returned to the embassy and dropped off her son's passport with the K2 visa attached to it. She was told that she could pick it up after it was corrected 2 days later on Wednesday (the day prior to their planned travel to the USA).
On Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, she returned to Bogota and picked up her son's Colombian passport that now contained 2 K2 visas in it (one listing him as a female and another listing him as a male). It noted that one of the K2 visas in his passport was now invalid.
The following day, all 3 of them flew safely to the USA with no problems and my 3 kids and I met the 3 of them at the airport!
We plan to marry in a church 8 days from now. javascript:emoticon(' ')
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