VISA APPROVED!!!!

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Well, its finally over for us!!! I've spent many hundreds of hours and sleepless nights working on my wife's immigration visa. Thank God, its all over....

i emailed the embassy last weekend and requested an earlier appointment. They replied on Sunday and rescheduled our interview for 8/26.

We arrived at the Kuwait embassy at 12pm and received our numbered badges. There weren't very many people applying for visas since its Ramadan. Around 1pm we were allowed to enter the embassy and proceed through security. We took our number and were 3rd in line for immigration visas. There was no one applying for tourist visas and there were 4 of us waiting for immigration visas. The 3 other applicants were all middle eastern males. We handed in all of our documents around 2pm and then waited.

We waited for about 1 1/2 hours until the first person was called for interviews. The first person was in his late 30's or early 40's.... The CO seemed to grill him with questions for a good 20 minutes and then finally approved his visa. My wife was very anxious after seeing how many question the CO was asking the first applicant. The second applicant was Kuwaiti and had a very bad attitude. He had some kind of visa issue and was trying to get his green card renewed. I'm not sure what his deal was but the CO appeared to be very annoyed by his attitude and told him to take a seat.

I could see the CO looking through our paperwork for about 10 minutes and then she finally called us to the window. She took my wife's fingerprints, swore her in, and then asked her to sign DS-230 part II. She then said that she just came from Uzbekistan but wasn't able to make it to Bukhara (my wife's hometown). I then told her that we have many pictures from Bukhara and Tashkent.... The CO looked through our pictures for a few minutes and commented on a few of them. She then asked my wife how we met and when we are planning to go back to the US. That was it.... She asked us 2 questions and approved our visa!!!

We are so happy now..... We will be leaving Kuwait in the next 2 months.

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Congratulations!