VANCOUVER K1 INTERVIEW?

[lvcouple2010 11]

I have read here on VJ that the US Citizen is welcome to attend the K1 interview along with the beneficiary and I planned to do that. However, while looking at the Vancouver Consulate's interview scheduling website I found the following:

"Accompanying Persons

The following persons may accompany a visa applicant during his or her visit to the Consular Section:

Interpreters: An applicant may bring one interpreter if he does not speak English (or French if applying in Montreal or Quebec City) well enough to participate unassisted in the visa interview.

Special Needs Assistants: An applicant may bring one person to assist him if he is elderly, disabled, or a minor child.

The following persons may not be allowed into the U.S. Consular Section premises:

Attorneys: An applicant may not be accompanied by his or her attorney(s).

Drivers, friends, extra relatives, and others not specifically named above cannot be permitted to enter and will be asked to return to meet the applicant after the interview is complete. This includes minor children who are not seeking visas.

Due to the limited size of the Consular Section waiting rooms, the high volume of visa applicants, and the time required to screen consular clients, other accompanying persons cannot and will not be admitted to the Consular Section".

This was under the heading of "General Information" so perhaps this is for Montreal?

Have any of you attended an interview recently?

[Inky 1,111]

There were plenty of USCs when I went in 2009 for my interview in Montreal.

Half the people there had brought their USC husband / fiance(e) with them to the interview.

There was standing room only in the waiting room after I left my interview box(early morning).

Its no joke the waiting rooms are small, and there are TONS of people in there. But USC is always welcome in the US embassy. Not always allowed IN the room for the interview(depends on interviewer and their mood) but you can go in the waiting room upstairs with your significant other and sit with them(if theres a chair free).

[HeatDeath 430]

There were plenty of USCs when I went in 2009 for my interview in Montreal.

Half the people there had brought their USC husband / fiance(e) with them to the interview.

There was standing room only in the waiting room after I left my interview box(early morning).

Its no joke the waiting rooms are small, and there are TONS of people in there. But USC is always welcome in the US embassy. Not always allowed IN the room for the interview(depends on interviewer and their mood) but you can go in the waiting room upstairs with your significant other and sit with them(if theres a chair free).

+1 above.

I interviewed in Vancouver in 2009 as well. It wasn't very busy when I went (early afternoon on a Wednesday), but there were at least a couple of US citizen petitioners in there. It wasn't just Canadians by any stretch. I don't know if they'd let the petitioners up to the interview booths (I never saw a secondary interview room) but it certainly seemed as if petitioners were being let up to the waiting room easily enough.

Edited April 14, 2011 by HeatDeath

[soon2batexan 3]

When I interviewed last August, my US citizen fiance (now husband) was with me. As far as I know, US citizens can come to the consulate whenever they choose, should they require the consulate's assistant. Someone may say otherwise, but from the consulate staff I talked to in Vancouver, the US citizen fiance/spouse has a right to be there and they actually encourage it. The Vice Consular told me the staff always enjoy seeing the couples together and having the opportunity to meet with both at once. It is the foreign citizen, however, who will be asked the bulk of the questions (at least in our experience).

[lvcouple2010 11]

Thanks, everyone for your posts! I'll plan on going and hope for the best

[Mickee 0]

These posts are older, anyone have a update? Our plan is for me to fly up to Vancouver from the U.S. and attend the interview with my soon to be wife. Also, is the Visa issued right after the interview?

Thanks in advance

[lyndsayjo 2]

These posts are older, anyone have a update? Our plan is for me to fly up to Vancouver from the U.S. and attend the interview with my soon to be wife. Also, is the Visa issued right after the interview?

Thanks in advance

Hey! I was just at my Vancouver interview last week. My US fiance came with me, and when I was called for my interview he just walked up behind me, and interviewed with me. It was really friendly, it was like a getting to know you chat. The consular officer didn't even ask to see our proof of relationship since he was there. You should go along!

They decide whether the visa is approved then and there, but you don't get it right away. When she was on the usa visa info site (where you pay your fee and book the interview) she should've specified a Loomis location for pickup. They'll take her passport, and loomis will ship it to that location. I got mine in just 2 days from Vancouver to Calgary.

[Mickee 0]

Very cool, thank you, she lives near the Vancouver consulate, thanks again.

[TBoneTX 46,018]

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