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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review on March 20, 2012: |
Fede&Kendra
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Interview day: Previous to the interview we were really nervous, probably more than necessary
haha, so the night before didn't sleep good at all, our appointment was at 7:00 am so we arrived early to the embassy at 5:45am and immediately got in line 3, we waited there until 6:30 when a lady came out, she put a green sticker on both of us, we then passed trough the security and went into the facilities, we recieved a paper with the order of the documents they needed to see and the lady told us to go to line 29, so before going to that line we took our time to order our documents and leave just what they ask for...
(This is something we think is important not only for you but also for everybody, just take your time to put everything in order and just follow the instructions of that paper, it makes everything faster and smoother, we saw that all the people in front of us and in other lines didn't follow the instructions and it took way longer than it took for us, so our advice is "Take your time and follow the instructions")
...once in the first window, the lady asked first for the paper with the instructions and then for our documents, she asked me to sign the forms and keep looking at our documents, she gave us back the 129 package that my fiancee sent in the States, and then, suddenly, that lady looked at her computer screen and as my fiancée posted before, she asked us for the DS-230 form, we were never sure if we will need that form but at the end was a very good thing we had it. It only took us like 7 minutes in that window, so easy and short comparing with other people who didn't organize their things. After that the lady told us we had to wait in the chairs behind the cafeteria and wait there until they call us, so we went there and waited for 40 minutes more or less, suddenly they called me, we walked to window 3 holding our hands, very nervous and there was this red head kind of young lady, I picked up the phone and said good morning in spanish, she answered me in spanish too (actually the whole intervie was in spanish, something I wasn't expecting), after that she asked me if certified that everything we had putted down in our papers and everything I was about to say in the interview was 100% true, of course I said yes, then she passed me the forms to sign them and started asking me some questions:
-When did you meet your fiance?
-When did you see your fiance in person for the first time?
-When did you two decided to marry?
-What does your fiance do for living?
-Where does she live?¿Does she live with her family?
-Where are you gonna live in the States?
-Do you have intentions to work in the States?
-What do you do for living?
After those questions she asked me to take the fingerprints and after that she asked me two more questions:
-Does your fiance speak spanish or do you speak english?
-Where did you learn english?
After that I thought she was about to start speaking to me in english but for my surprise she just said: "Your visa has been approved, welcome to the United States", I looked at my fiance with tears in my eyes and a huge smile, when my fiancee saw my face she knew it, we were approved, the consul lady gave me the instructions for the delivering of the visa and gave us back the Affidavit of Support I-134 form and all the economic proofs and that was it. The whole interview just took like 5 minutes, everything in spanish and the consul lady didn't ask anything to my fiancée, we walked out of the embassy at 8:45 am in the happiest moment ever, thinking that it was so much easier than we expected and that we shouldn't be as nervous as we were, but we think those nervous are impossible not to feel them.
Best luck for everybody and thank you so much for all the advices and the support!!!
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