Juarez Consulate

[Jaime 0]

Hello, congrats to all ......I just received a fiancee packet but did not have a interview appointment date. What it said in the letter I received was I could go to the consulate mon thru fri between the hours of 8am and 10am. Is this pretty common??????????? or should I be looking for an appointment date. thanks for everyones help.

[kitkat1 5]

Hello, congrats to all ......I just received a fiancee packet but did not have a interview appointment date. What it said in the letter I received was I could go to the consulate mon thru fri between the hours of 8am and 10am. Is this pretty common??????????? or should I be looking for an appointment date. thanks for everyones help.

K1s don't have interview dates - that's why the letter said you can go any day in the morning. You can read all of the requirements on the CDJ site. Good luck.

[kitkat1 5]

MARTY - we're waiting for your good news . . .

[MonicaMexico 0]

MARTY - we're waiting for your good news . . .

Yeah, Marty ... we're all on the edge of our seats! I hope you're busy celebrating!

[elguevon 16]

Well why we all wait for Marty....I'm waiting for my NOA2!! ITS DUE....Mid-March NOA1 via CSC!!!

I've been following this Juarez forum for the past 3 months preparing for the day when I too will venture to this gran ciudad tan bella.

To all those that have taken the time to give very detailed descriptions of the process, regardless of approval or not...THANK YOU!

All the experiences from fellow K1ers have been invaluable guidance ...now I just need the NOA2 and Packet 3 to apply what most of you have already experienced.

I hope to be able to share my experience as well when the time comes.

Sooo...just a kind thanks to all. Marty??? Report Marty??? I hope he's not in some Mexican jail!!

[mfarmer2 0]

Hello all.

Sorry to keep you guys on the edge. But the internet at the La Playa Hotel was severely lacking.

Monday, June 11: We flew from Hermosillo to Juarez airport. Cab ride from airport to La Playa hotel was $220 pesos (payable inside the airport). It's about a 15-20 minute cab ride.

Tuesday, June 12: We got to the medical center (right next to the US Consulate) at about 7:06am (but we thought it was 6:06am. Our cell phones were telling us the wrong time the whole time we were there). There were several people waiting but my fiance was called in at 7:09am. But I found out that she was waiting in the other room. She said that everyone in there was trying to get there visa due to entering the USA illegally. She felt like an outsider because she wasn't an illegal. The medical went fine. They asked her all the normal questions. They took blood and X-rays and looked her over visually. We were out of there at about 7:45am. They told us to come back at 2pm (but we got there at 2:50pm due to the cell phone again). Luckily we got there early because they close at 3pm.

Wednesday, June 13: We got to the US Consulate at 6:45am and had to wait in line to get in for about 20 minutes. We tried asking if I could go in with her but of course they would not let me. So I hung out across the street where all the other people were waiting. It was frickin HOT!!! But there is a coffee house there called D'Volada. I decided to go get a Frappecino there and found out it was air-conditioned and it had a great view of the enterance to the US Consulate. So, me being a fair-skinned English boy, I decided to spend my morning chillin in the AC and getting buzzed on coffee. I was waiting for my fiancee to come to tell us we had to go get pictures. My fiancee finally came out at about 9:30am. So I rushed across the street and she had her visa sticker in her passport and the infamous manilla folder with the documents (apparently the pictures that I used for the I-129F worked ok). So we got the visa!!!!!!! She said they really didn't even go through any of the information that I put together and didn't ask a whole lot of questions. She said it was a very quick interview.

Thursday, June 14: We left the La Playa Hotel at about 7:30am. Got a taxi to take us to the El Paso airport ($60 USD). The wait to get over the Cordova bridge was about 1.5 hours. Once we got to the questioning area, the taxi pulled over and told us to go in the pedestrian crossing. We went into the Permiso area and they quickly gave her a stamp and stapled a one time pass to her passport. We then stood in line (with our 5 suitcases) to get through. The women there was not so friendly and asked her what she planned on doing in the USA. My fiancee told her to get married and she said, "what else"? What kind of question is this? We then jumped in the taxi and he took us to the El Paso airport (10-15 minutes from the border).

And now we are in Detroit. It feels so good to have her here with me. Now, we want to get married ASAP and file for the AOS soon so she can get the Advance Parole travel documents. So, back to the drawing board of filling out more documents and paying more money!

Thanks to all that have helped me and my fiancee through this. This website ROCKS! I'm addicted to checking the posts everyday and still will (probably). I wish everyone here success. Feel free to ask me any questions on our experience.

Marty

[tijuanahilton 0]

Hello all.

Sorry to keep you guys on the edge. But the internet at the La Playa Hotel was severely lacking.

Monday, June 11: We flew from Hermosillo to Juarez airport. Cab ride from airport to La Playa hotel was $220 pesos (payable inside the airport). It's about a 15-20 minute cab ride.

Tuesday, June 12: We got to the medical center (right next to the US Consulate) at about 7:06am (but we thought it was 6:06am. Our cell phones were telling us the wrong time the whole time we were there). There were several people waiting but my fiance was called in at 7:09am. But I found out that she was waiting in the other room. She said that everyone in there was trying to get there visa due to entering the USA illegally. She felt like an outsider because she wasn't an illegal. The medical went fine. They asked her all the normal questions. They took blood and X-rays and looked her over visually. We were out of there at about 7:45am. They told us to come back at 2pm (but we got there at 2:50pm due to the cell phone again). Luckily we got there early because they close at 3pm.

Wednesday, June 13: We got to the US Consulate at 6:45am and had to wait in line to get in for about 20 minutes. We tried asking if I could go in with her but of course they would not let me. So I hung out across the street where all the other people were waiting. It was frickin HOT!!! But there is a coffee house there called D'Volada. I decided to go get a Frappecino there and found out it was air-conditioned and it had a great view of the enterance to the US Consulate. So, me being a fair-skinned English boy, I decided to spend my morning chillin in the AC and getting buzzed on coffee. I was waiting for my fiancee to come to tell us we had to go get pictures. My fiancee finally came out at about 9:30am. So I rushed across the street and she had her visa sticker in her passport and the infamous manilla folder with the documents (apparently the pictures that I used for the I-129F worked ok). So we got the visa!!!!!!! She said they really didn't even go through any of the information that I put together and didn't ask a whole lot of questions. She said it was a very quick interview.

Thursday, June 14: We left the La Playa Hotel at about 7:30am. Got a taxi to take us to the El Paso airport ($60 USD). The wait to get over the Cordova bridge was about 1.5 hours. Once we got to the questioning area, the taxi pulled over and told us to go in the pedestrian crossing. We went into the Permiso area and they quickly gave her a stamp and stapled a one time pass to her passport. We then stood in line (with our 5 suitcases) to get through. The women there was not so friendly and asked her what she planned on doing in the USA. My fiancee told her to get married and she said, "what else"? What kind of question is this? We then jumped in the taxi and he took us to the El Paso airport (10-15 minutes from the border).

And now we are in Detroit. It feels so good to have her here with me. Now, we want to get married ASAP and file for the AOS soon so she can get the Advance Parole travel documents. So, back to the drawing board of filling out more documents and paying more money!

Thanks to all that have helped me and my fiancee through this. This website ROCKS! I'm addicted to checking the posts everyday and still will (probably). I wish everyone here success. Feel free to ask me any questions on our experience.

Marty

FELICIDADES MARTY!!!!!

I can't believe Ady was out by 9:30!!!! It's a new record!

Congratulations a los dos

Gabacha, you're next!

[kitkat1 5]

WOW Marty - that was a BREEZE!!! Congrats to you both!

[E&K 0]

Congratulations Marty!!

And Adriana: Bienvenida a Detroit!

Let me know if there's anything I can help you guys, I've already sent my AOS/EAD/AP paperwork and have been approved already for the EAD and AP so I'll be glad to answer any questions you might have on the different things you'll have to deal with locally (i.e. SSN, vaccination supplement)

Felicidades de nuevo!!

[GabachaYucateca 0]

Wow, Marty! 9:30 am...that's amazing. And congratulations!!!!

I feel like I'm going to vomit...homeboy doesn't have his passport yet and I'm supposed to call him shortly to find out if they finished the correction. Not psyched about the logistics of changing his flight, but ni modo...

TijuanaHilton: What are you doing online??????????????????

[GabachaYucateca 0]

I'm having a heck of a time filling out the Supplemental Form for men online...it asks for a specific form for dates and then doesn't accept it when I put it in, and there are some fields I simply can't type in.

Is it okay of I just fill in what I can online and then handwrite what it won't accept?

[tijuanahilton 0]

I'm having a heck of a time filling out the Supplemental Form for men online...it asks for a specific form for dates and then doesn't accept it when I put it in, and there are some fields I simply can't type in.

Is it okay of I just fill in what I can online and then handwrite what it won't accept?

Well, I'm a psycho, so what I couldn't do online, I typed in 7 and 8 point in a word document, then cut and pasted it onto the form. His schools and adresses would not fit otherwise.

I think you only have to do the actual DS-156 online though. The others don't have barcodes and it wouldn't matter if you filled them in by hand.

Ah, and I'm not banned from visajourney

[TwoInLove 0]

Congratulations Marty! I know how thrilled you must be! I'm getting ready to go to Acapulco to see Edgar for 3 weeks. After six months apart we really need to see each other and re-group. I still just may move to Juarez and work in El Paso if I can rent my house out. I'm going to have to weigh my options here. This so sucks I can't even tell you! The summer is so beautiful here and my house looks so nice, I just don't want to lose my house - but I've never rented out anything before, ayayay!

[mfarmer2 0]

I'm having a heck of a time filling out the Supplemental Form for men online...it asks for a specific form for dates and then doesn't accept it when I put it in, and there are some fields I simply can't type in.

Is it okay of I just fill in what I can online and then handwrite what it won't accept?

Yeah, I had problems filling in dates also. When I entered my birthday, it would enter the same date for all the other fields (non-birthday related). I just hand write the other dates.

[mfarmer2 0]

It's finally nice to have a life together now with my fiancee. It's definitely different but we love it so far. However, I feel like I am on a House extreme makeover tv show. She wants to do so much with my house. Arrrghhh. I guess my bachelor pad days are over.

Have a good weekend everyone.