Interivew questions

[JPmirage 0]

Well, after 5months of waiting and processing, the package is at the embassey and the interview has been scheduled for my future wife lol.

Im just wondering what kind of questions they ask at the interview?

[Darnell 8,479]

Questions? ok ..

1. Why didn't your USC fiance fill out his timeline over at VJ ???

For the rest - have a read?

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/...rview_Questions

Good Luck (lol ?? )

[JPmirage 0]

eh... I had stuff occiped.. but I will filled out lol

thanks for the link!

[bamspeedy 0]

Well, after 5months of waiting and processing, the package is at the embassey and the interview has been scheduled for my future wife lol.

Im just wondering what kind of questions they ask at the interview?

My fiancee just had her interview on Oct. 20th in Guangzhou.

Some people are asked 4 questions, my fiancee was asked 20+. Some interviews are 2 minutes long, my fiancee's was 20+ minutes long (after waiting in line before the interview for 6 hours!).

At Guangzhou, if the interview time is 7:15 you will most likely not be getting out of there until 10:30 or later anyways. She got in line at 6 AM, was the 7th person in line and didn't have the interview until 11:40 and it lasted until just after noon. So getting early doesn't seem to help, and it's nice to know that if she oversleeps/is late that she should still go there and get in line, because she most likely won't be considered as 'missing' the interview because of the long lines unless she gets there after they've closed their doors (at 11?).

They can be asked 'easy' questions like when you two met, how many times have you been to China to see her, what you do for a living (and how much you are paid), and what your birthday is.

Or (seemingly if they want the beneficiary to fail when reading some horror stories from the past) they could be asked 'hard' questions, such as the birthdates of the petitioner's parent's, the petitioner's favorite flavor of ice cream (or other food), or what year the petition bought his car.

I have also read some people were asked about the petitioner's favorite color, which in most cases the benificiary could probably lie about it and the interviewer would be none the wiser. Something like favorite color is not on any forms you had to supply, but it's possible it was discussed in one of your written communications with her, and if that letter had been supplied as samples of your communications.... that would be the proof they need to show she is lying, which would result in a white slip and could get her banned from getting any US visa in the future.

So I would strongly suggest to encourage your fiancee to simple answer "I don't know" if she does not know the answer (or "I don't remember" if she thinks she might have been told the answer before, and "I don't understand" if she doesn't understand what is being asked), rather than tell a lie.

I don't have the full list of questions my fiancee was asked, but here are some of them:

How many times did you meet?

How long did he stay when he was visiting you in China?

Where does he live? (city, knowing the full address is best)

What state does he live in?

How do you communicate? (phone, email, etc.)

-Then she was asked to read the letters out loud in English, and then to translate the letters from English to Chinese. This doesn't seem to happen often in interviews, but it seems to have been used to see how well she can read English and understand what she is reading.

-He then asked her several questions about the letters and what was written in them. Probably to verify that it was really us writing the letters to each other.

Are you planning on having (more) children?

-Probably testing to see if you two had discussed this type of thing. As long as she is being honest about this there shouldn't be any problems, unless someone said a very high number then it might be an issue whether or not you will have the income to support them all.

He saw her ring (wearing it at the interview!), and asked if it was from me and my proposal (it was), so he looked at that.

Looked at the photos.

Questions for divorced w/child (our situation):

Why did you get divorced?

-Gambling. Her ex's drinking also caused other problems.

How much did he gamble?

-They lost most of their money and assets because of his gambling.

You've been divorced for awhile now, why have you not re-married?

-"Because I love my fiance, and want to marry him".

How can you prove the daughter is yours?

-She provided the birth certificate and/or said immigration has a copy of it.

Daughter was asked if the father knows that she is going to the US.

-Daughter didn't understand the question (only 5 years old), so the mother answered that the father has not been told for fear that he may do something bad. (In China, if the mother has full custody then the father does not need to give permission for the child to leave the country like is required in many other countries .)

Having the 5-year old also caused much stress and confusion as the little one was 'chattering' and wanted to 'play' with the interviewer.

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She did not know/didn't remember the answer to all the questions, and didn't understand a couple questions (language problems), so you don't always need to get 100% of the answers right, it all depends on which questions she doesn't know (and possibly the mood of the interviewer).

Edited October 28, 2009 by bamspeedy

[Lina y Mario 0]

The CO can (and most probably will) ask anything he wants. We were asked 3 questions during our interview, and they were all for me. First one, my name. Second, my maiden last name. Third, are we cousins. That was all. 30 seconds. Done. The CO then said, "Okay, please tell your fiancee that his visa has been issued."

[Stephen + Elisha 92]

Interviews take place at the embassy/consulate - moving to Embassy and Consulate Discussion

[Darnell 8,479]

Bamspeedy - thanks for posting the questions from your wife's interview.

IMO (and I'm not knocking you ) - the litany of questions are not the norm - but are the extreme - and ...

The VO at GUZ chooses the extreme when either 1) the casefile seems weird on review, prior to interview day or 2) the amount of time between USCs divorce date and K-1 filing date is close or 3) something came back in the namechecks on the beneficiary.

The VO won't try to issue blue slip for other evidence - instead - they will issue white sliip (NOID ) for 'not a bonafide relationship' - is concept of 'you don't know your fiance's favorite color??? DENIED ! ' and of course this is ludicrious.

So, if ya get the longish questions, somethings wrong - they want to grill her until failure, so they can issue a white slip.

BamSpeedy - good on her - she made it through the grilling stage.. I'd be sweating bullets if I was in the same situation.

[Azzudiin 26]

The CO can (and most probably will) ask anything he wants. We were asked 3 questions during our interview, and they were all for me. First one, my name. Second, my maiden last name. Third, are we cousins. That was all. 30 seconds. Done. The CO then said, "Okay, please tell your fiancee that his visa has been issued."

Consulates vary greatly, In the Guangzhou China Consulate the USC is not allowed to be at interview, which makes it one of the tougher Consulates. Many USC that go to support their SO will give them their passport to show the VO that they are there in China with them, usually sitting at the coffee shop on 4th floor.

[Hell0W0rld 10]

visit Candleforlove.com and see the post regarding members that have passed the interview, they usually post the questions that was asked...

[Darnell 8,479]

This is a bit old - http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3131

Be prepared to go over the communication issue - seems folk got dinged a lot this year because of it.

[Nwanyioma 11]

The CO can (and most probably will) ask anything he wants. We were asked 3 questions during our interview, and they were all for me. First one, my name. Second, my maiden last name. Third, are we cousins. That was all. 30 seconds. Done. The CO then said, "Okay, please tell your fiancee that his visa has been issued."

Hello Mr.Stephen

My name is Nwanyioma and my petition is now in Lagos Nigeria. I was wondering if you had any of the above documents?

DS-156

DS-156K

OF-167

Police Report request letter

I-693

Also after the documents have been completely signed, How will he submit them?

Thanks

Nwanyioma

[Darnell 8,479]

JP - there's a small list of an actual interview from August - see http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=64846 and read the bottom. (THank You MIKE for filling it in !! )