Dublin Embassy review

[Mand 1]

Since I can't seem to post a review in the Embassy review section, I'll write a piece here and hopefully if someone searches Dublin or Irish Embassy this will pop up for them.

We got there early as we knew from previous visits that it's a first come first seen type of way. My husand and our two girls were with us, we had brought a Zen player for our oldest girl to watch some cartoons as she had surgery on her foot the day before and we thought this would be nice for her. Unfortunately as it was electronic, it was kept at the entrance - luckily we brought a drawing pad for her too

We were called around 1:15 and a lady went through our documents very carefully. I had copies of my birth cert, marriage cert and a few other bits too and she took them aswell. I figured anything that would help them get through our case fast had to be a good thing! We brought info from a joint sponsor as we didn't know if we would need it or not and she took those too. She didn't see the I-864a and was trying to tell me that I needed this as the joint sponsor filed taxes jointly. I replied that it was behind the joint sponsors I-864 form, she smiled and said "Oh you're well prepared so".

I then paid the visa bill $400 or €280 as it worked out that day. It has to be the exact amount of money or they won't accept it.

I was called around 2:30 for the interview itself. She went through the documents, gave me back my birth cert and marriage cert and said that they would need the joint sponsor info so we going to hold onto that also. She asked for my previous greencard (we had previously done the K1 visa in 2005, but returned to Ireland in 2006 to have our kids near my family). I told her I had formally handed it back to the Embassy here and she was happy with that.

She asked when we met, where we met, when did my husband move back to the US, when did I move over, when did we get married and when we moved back to Ireland. She took my fingerprints and said they would probably have them on file from our previous K1 visa, then I swore an oath that all info was correct. She said I would get my passport back in the S.A.E. I brought with me and the sealed brown envelope would be in there too. She asked where we were moving to and did I have any questions and that was it.

The main piece of advice is to make sure your documents are all in order and that you have every single thing you need. I heard 2 other people being told that they needed further info from the lady collecting the documents. And if you bring your kids with you, bring lots of snacks and little toys with you as the time does drag there and kids get bored easily

[carolynhotstuff 252]

Congrats!!

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

Glad it went well for you, hope the actual move won;t be too stressful with the kiddos!