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| Bangkok, Thailand |  Review #26066 on April 28, 2019: |
Mooaeun&Moonoi
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| | | Bangkok, Thailand | Review #25971 on April 11, 2019: |
AoNang
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We walked to the consular building from our hotel (Jim's Lodge on the soi behind the embassy, recommended) arriving at 6:50 for her 7:30am interview on April 9. Lots of folks already there for a variety of visas. Stayed together until it was time for her to get in line under the canopy where her passport was checked against a list of appointments. (Canopy was a nice touch since I was there last). She entered the building right after her appointment was verfied, all together about 15 minutes from our arrival. Met another guy who also accompanied his fiance and we crossed the pedestrian bridge to get coffee and wait.
She handed over her phone and purse, went through the metal detector and was directed to a seating area. K1 visa applicants were called to line up with their passports and were given a Thailand Post EMS label where the applicants were instructed to enter a mailing address and take a seat in the waiting area. (NOTE: bring a pen and paper so you can write down the EMS number shown on the address label. This will enable you to check the progress of delivery of your visa on the Thailand Post website.)Applicants were called by seating position - sit in first chair, get called first to window A, B or C where you hand over the packet 4 documents.
Now..the packet 4 instructions list is almost a duplicate of the packet 3 document requirements which we had submitted previously. Ok, I made another copy of everything we had submitted in the packet 3 along with some updated photos and airline boarding passes for the Evidence of Relationship. She handed over her original Birth Certificate and Single Certificate along with the certified translations (BTW: Express Translations is about a 15 minute walk from our hotel and the embassy.) They kept the original single certificate, returned the original Birth Certificate and kept the updated Evidence of Relationship. Embassy did not want the 2 photos that were 'required' by the packet 4 instructions?? (Embassy used the photos we submitted with the packet 3 for the visa page)
We had previously mailed the medical exam results to the Embassy from the small post office in the basement of Baumregrad hospital when the exam was completed, so they already had the exam. (I followed up with the embassy via email a few days after the exam and prior to the interview to check that the exam results were received Embassy replied same day that the results had been received and reviewed and everything was in order.)
After the document check, she was directed to the large waiting room inside and told to wait with other K1 applicants until called. There are a series of counters/windows and applicants are called by first name to approach a counter/window. She was called to counter 5 where the older US counsular official (who has been mentioned in previous reviews) greeted her and my fiance returned the greeting in English. (How are you, I'm fine and you? Yes? I'm fine...regular friendly chit chat. Very polite, nice guy)
Offiical looked through papers from packet 3 and original single certificate. She was asked the standard questions: When did you first meet your fiance? Where did you meet your fiance? What was your fiance doing there (where we met)? Where will you live in the US? That's it...Visa Approved. Thank you.
Visa was mailed from embassy that evening (9 April) and delivered in southern Thailand in the afternoon today, 11 April. Great service from the consular folks.
BTW: I have compiled a list of every question shown in the consular reviews for the past year. My fiance and I studied the questions and we wrote out answers to all the questions and practiced the questions and answers in English for two weeks prior to the interview. Some of questions will generate the same answer but the wording of questions changes slightly so the applicant doesn't get confused by the change in how the same question asked. Really helped relax her knowing the answers prior to the questions. You can copy and paste into a text editor like Notepad or Word and fill in your own answers.
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Q: How did you meet your fiance`?
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Q: What was your fiancee doing there ( in the town we met)
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Q: Where does your finance live?
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Q: What does he do for a living?
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Q: What did he do before he retired?
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Q: How many times has he come to visit you?
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Q: How long ago did you meet?
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Q: When are you getting married?
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Q: Have you met your fiancé in person before?
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Q: Where did you meet?
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Q: Where does your Finance work?
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Q: Where did you meet your fiance?
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Q: How did you two meet?
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Q: Where will you live in the US.
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Q: When will you go to the US?
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Q: How many times has your fiance been married?
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Q: Does your fiance have any children?
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Q: Where was your fiance born?
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Q: When is your fiance's birthday?
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Q: How old is your fiance?
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Q: When was your fiance born?
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Q: How many times has he come to visit you?
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Q: How long ago did you meet?
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Q: When was the last time you saw each other?
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Q: When are you getting married?
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Q: Have you met your fiancé in person before?
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Q: Where did you meet your fiance?
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Q: What does he do?
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Q: Why do you want a K1 visa?
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Q: Who does you fiance live with in the US?
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Q: How many times has your fiance been married?
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| | | Bangkok, Thailand | Review #25969 on April 11, 2019: |
Adamsdaa
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Interview was short and two the point, they swore her in and asked 4 questions.
1) How did you meet and when?
2) How many times did your finance come see you? ( of note he was pleasantly surprised that I had visited 3 times in a less then a 12 month timeframe)
3) What does he do for work?
4) Where does he live?
Your visa is approved and you should have it in one week.
| | | Bangkok, Thailand | Review #25915 on April 3, 2019: |
DanielPlainview
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My fiancee went for the interview yesterday. Got into the embassy at about 7:30am for her 8am interview. She was in with many tourist visa applicants. At about 7:45am, she was called up to the first window. Over the course of about 20 minutes, she submitted her single certificate, name change certificate (she changed spelling of her first name years ago), passport....and the one that surprised me, the book we prepared of relationship evidence. With each item, the very nice Thai lady that was assisting her, was typing information into the computer.....which is why this took 20 minutes. This gal asked her a couple of questions.........1. was whether or not she ever lived in another country for more than one year, and 2. do you have travel plans. With regard to the travel plans, my fiancee said she would like to go this month...April. The gal told her "ok, but do not buy a ticket until you have the physical visa in your hand. If approved, it will arrive in one week." Other than that, it appeared that this woman was essentially organizing all of the information for the person doing the interview. My fiancee mentioned that our documents were well organized and concise, compared to some of the other ladies who were also doing an immigrant visa. Seems some had just stacks and stacks of paper.
At about 8:05am, she was lead to another waiting area close to "Window 5" which is apparently for immigrant visas. She mentioned that the first lady in line was at the window for about a half hour, but was eventually approved. The next three ladies took about 1 minute each at the window, and were all approved. She was next.....she thought the guy looked serious, but was polite and professional. He asked her how we met.....online........OK, then when did you meet in person. Since we've known each other a very long time, he also asked why it took so long to get engaged. He then asked where she would be living in the US. I'm assuming he already knew from the sheet and wanted to hear her repeat it. Well, apparently she did great because he told her she was approved and would have the visa within a week. Although the appointment was 8am, I did not hear from her until about 9:15am. Apparently sometimes it takes a while, so just be prepared for that.
| | | Bangkok, Thailand | Review #25865 on March 26, 2019: |
Deanwinchester
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APPROVED!!! Her interview was scheduled at 9am, we arrived at 8am, there were tons of people in line, about 30 minutes later she went in and I waited. I went back and forth from the restaurant to outside the embassy and around 10:30 she comes out with a huge smile on her face!
She said she went to the window, gave her documents, she gave more photos they said, “Ok ok that’s enough haha†then she sat down again. Then she talked to a guy and he didn’t ask anything except if our baby had a passport and said we will get the visa in one week. That was it!
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