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[hniHnitsuJ 8]

Yes, they changed it recently I believe. The USC is now allowed to go into the embassy together with their spouse. Interviewing together isn't normal though. I think we were the only couple they interviewed together the entire day from our observation. Usually, we saw that USC's were allowed to assist in carrying paperwork and babies/children while the SO proceeded with the interview. In some cases, the USC wasn't even allowed within viewing distance of the CO's window while the interview was taking place (this was only a problem with the white blonde lady and korean looking vietnamese lady).

Basically, when standing in line, when they call the next person to enter the building you can enter together. They'll hold up two fingers to ask if you're together. We just nodded as we entered the embassy and went through security. They'd ask us a few questions like who was being interviewed and such. You have to leave your phones and cameras with them here. They give you a small plaque with a number on it to pick up when you finish your interview. Just exit the building normally and walk back over to the entrance after you are done.

Once past security through the door, the interview area for immigrant visas is on the right (there's a sign above you when you go down the hall). At the end of this short hall the path splits, you'll see the exit on your right and the only path is to go around the corner on the left. When you go around the corner, you'll immediately see the waiting around with a long hall of seats and two windows. We approached the window and gave our appointment form with our scheduled interview date. They gave is a ticket with a 4 digit number. I notice is was usually either 50XX, 60XX, 70XX, where XX is your number. Ours was 6041. When you walk down the hall to take a seat you'll see the seats on the right side and numbers on the wall on the left side. The numbers go from 1-15, one for each window. In the center hanging from the ceiling are a bunch of black boxes that show which number was called.

They looked like this:

XXXX - YY

XXXX - YY

XXXX - YY

XXXX is the ticket number called, and YY is the window you need to go to. The number and what window to approach is announced by an automated vietnamese voice followed by an english voice. There are water coolers on each end of the long room, and a bathroom back the way you came in. Linh needed the bathroom since she wasn't able to brush before the sputum sample. She also took the time to reapply her make-up .

I think that's everything I can remember from the whole process.

Wow. good to know that USC allowed to going in with your SO for interview.. thanks for your infor..

[Anh map 2,098]

Wonderful news!!! Great info as well.

[Tuanv 2]

Congrat! Nice post!

[MichaelAndKha 0]

That is very good news. I hope everything will be smooth sailing from this day forward!

-Michael