Yet Another Visa Approval!

[Casper&Diana 0]

Sorry for the hiatus but all is good. Diana and I had our interview on Thursday and got the excellent news the same day. I'll post more details on the Kiev embassy review but suffice to say, it went quite smoothly.

We came to the consulate the day before so that we could verify the location, where to pay, ask 'do we put the photos on the DS-156 or do you?' (the consulate does). Our appointment was for 9 am Thursday and we were wired for sound so got there at 8:15 fortunately there is an enterprising young lad Starbucks wannabe with a latte machine so all was good.

8:55 we went in, the immigration lobby was already nearly full. We checked in at the window, handed over the endless mound of documents, did the finger prints, waited 3 more hours then got called up for the interview.

Diana, son Denys, and I went to the window together. I was asked (mm, more like told) 'you have met several times' (yes, 5) 'traveled a lot together' (yes, 8 countries in 8 months) 'you make more than enough money to support them' (I've been fortunate). Then I was politely asked to beat it.

2 minutes later Denys came out, no questions to him were asked.

5 minutes later Diana came out beaming ear to ear! The questions were mostly about the children-Denys & my daughters, how/when/where did we meet and that was about it.

Everyone else we talked to was approved as well. It was a good day at the House of Dreams!

Now 5 days of packing left before heading home to Oregon. POE JFK.

[marklovetina 52]

:dance: :thumbs:

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Sorry for the hiatus but all is good. Diana and I had our interview on Thursday and got the excellent news the same day. I'll post more details on the Kiev embassy review but suffice to say, it went quite smoothly.

We came to the consulate the day before so that we could verify the location, where to pay, ask 'do we put the photos on the DS-156 or do you?' (the consulate does). Our appointment was for 9 am Thursday and we were wired for sound so got there at 8:15 fortunately there is an enterprising young lad Starbucks wannabe with a latte machine so all was good.

8:55 we went in, the immigration lobby was already nearly full. We checked in at the window, handed over the endless mound of documents, did the finger prints, waited 3 more hours then got called up for the interview.

Diana, son Denys, and I went to the window together. I was asked (mm, more like told) 'you have met several times' (yes, 5) 'traveled a lot together' (yes, 8 countries in 8 months) 'you make more than enough money to support them' (I've been fortunate). Then I was politely asked to beat it.

2 minutes later Denys came out, no questions to him were asked.

5 minutes later Diana came out beaming ear to ear! The questions were mostly about the children-Denys & my daughters, how/when/where did we meet and that was about it.

Everyone else we talked to was approved as well. It was a good day at the House of Dreams!

Now 5 days of packing left before heading home to Oregon. POE JFK.

Congratulations Casper! I will be at JFK on Thursday, Sergey will be coming home for the summer. what day are you guys coming?

[JVF 0]

Sorry for the hiatus but all is good. Diana and I had our interview on Thursday and got the excellent news the same day. I'll post more details on the Kiev embassy review but suffice to say, it went quite smoothly.

We came to the consulate the day before so that we could verify the location, where to pay, ask 'do we put the photos on the DS-156 or do you?' (the consulate does). Our appointment was for 9 am Thursday and we were wired for sound so got there at 8:15 fortunately there is an enterprising young lad Starbucks wannabe with a latte machine so all was good.

8:55 we went in, the immigration lobby was already nearly full. We checked in at the window, handed over the endless mound of documents, did the finger prints, waited 3 more hours then got called up for the interview.

Diana, son Denys, and I went to the window together. I was asked (mm, more like told) 'you have met several times' (yes, 5) 'traveled a lot together' (yes, 8 countries in 8 months) 'you make more than enough money to support them' (I've been fortunate). Then I was politely asked to beat it.

2 minutes later Denys came out, no questions to him were asked.

5 minutes later Diana came out beaming ear to ear! The questions were mostly about the children-Denys & my daughters, how/when/where did we meet and that was about it.

Everyone else we talked to was approved as well. It was a good day at the House of Dreams!

Now 5 days of packing left before heading home to Oregon. POE JFK.

Congratulations Casper!

[ARMANI KHAN 3]

Congratulations

[cranehand 0]

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

[Casper&Diana 0]

Thanks all for the warm congratulations! It's funny but with all the work that went into getting to this point, the visa approval almost seemed anticlimatic. Probably just me or there was no emotional energy left. I'm sure if we hadn't been approved the feelings would be VERY intense.

Gary, looks like we'll just miss you as I just missed Alla here in Donetsk. We get into JFK on Friday at 2:30 pm and leave @7:05 pm.

And now, back to packing!

[Martyshk 137]

:thumbs:Congratulations, Casper!

Very happy for you!

[Tanya and Barry 59]

Congrats!!!

[dswann 1]

Congrads my friend!!!

[slim 1,525]

All right! Way to go, guys!