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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: South Africa
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I was wondering if any South Africans could tell me about their K-1 interviews at the JHB embassy - like what questions were asked, what information you took with you, what documents did they ask from you to have a look at?, etc.

I'm hoping to get my NOA2 soon, and would just like to see how each K-1 interview experience went for everyone there :)

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Dustin USA (Petitioner)
Kirsty SA (Beneficiary)


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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Canada
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http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=South+Africa&cty=&dfilter=5

Take a look at the reviews section for your consulate at the link above

good luck

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Philippines
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moving thread to:

US Embassy and Consulate Discussion

This is the place to post your experiences or questions related to this last step before moving to the US. Topics relating to I-134's, packets sent from consulate and medical & police certificates should be posted here.

YMMV

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: South Africa
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http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=South+Africa&cty=&dfilter=5

Take a look at the reviews section for your consulate at the link above

good luck

Thank you Canadian_wife! I'm not on here "surfing" too often - good to know about this... :)

Dustin USA (Petitioner)
Kirsty SA (Beneficiary)


K-1 Journey

7 MONTHS 20 DAYS.. (From Start to Finish)

P.O.E

05.27.2011 - Flying to Michigan
05.28.2011 - P.O.E in New York - had no problems at all smile.png
05.28.2011 - Off to Detroit
07.09.2011 - Our Wedding wub.png

AOS Journey

3 MONTHS 4 DAYS (From Filing AOS to Interview Approval)
3 MONTHS 9 DAYS (From Filing AOS to Receiving GC)

ROC Journey

.. MONTHS .. DAYS (From Filing ROC to Receiving 10 Year GC)

.. MONTHS .. DAYS (From Responding to RFE to Receiving 10 Year GC)

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I was wondering the same thing. All the reviews seem to be from 2010. I'm just getting my paperwork together now and will file soon (prepared for the long wait :) ) but it would be nice to see more recent experiences.

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: South Africa
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I was wondering the same thing. All the reviews seem to be from 2010. I'm just getting my paperwork together now and will file soon (prepared for the long wait :) ) but it would be nice to see more recent experiences.

That's why i started this :) i would like to know about the most recent interviews (if any). i have had feedback from one couple that just went through their interview in Feb - was quite a nice experience, but want to hear more :) lol...

All the 2010 one's seem to be great, so lets hope it continues that way until we have our interviews :)

Good luck with the process - it's a long hard wait for quite a few, I thought our 5 months has gone pretty quickly (next Thursday is our 5 month mark)...

Dustin USA (Petitioner)
Kirsty SA (Beneficiary)


K-1 Journey

7 MONTHS 20 DAYS.. (From Start to Finish)

P.O.E

05.27.2011 - Flying to Michigan
05.28.2011 - P.O.E in New York - had no problems at all smile.png
05.28.2011 - Off to Detroit
07.09.2011 - Our Wedding wub.png

AOS Journey

3 MONTHS 4 DAYS (From Filing AOS to Interview Approval)
3 MONTHS 9 DAYS (From Filing AOS to Receiving GC)

ROC Journey

.. MONTHS .. DAYS (From Filing ROC to Receiving 10 Year GC)

.. MONTHS .. DAYS (From Responding to RFE to Receiving 10 Year GC)

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: South Africa
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Hi KirstyDustin! Hi Ochili! My fiance is from south africa and although our NOA2 is nowhere near yet, i just wanna ask if you already got your police clearances and if you guys know how long the clearances are valid for. He's excited to get them now, but we just sent our K1 application last month and i told him they might not be valid once we get our NOA2.

Thanks a lot and i wish you get your NOA2's very soon, and breeze through the interview without any problems! :)

01/29/11 | Sent I-129F

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Hi Marc & Ner,

I'm not that far along, yet. I've just gathered all my documents. I was actually supposed to be in SA right now but my sweetheart had to travel to Mozambique for business. Therefore, we pushed my trip back to next month. Sorry, I couldn't be of more help. Still hoping someone will come along with a more recent interview experience and offer some more insight though they seem few & far between at the SA consulate.

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