Approved K1 Interview Experience - Guangzhou China

[gwyting 0]

SHOULD BE FULLY PREPARED AND NO NEED TO BE TOO WORRIED AND NERVOUS

When I received P3, I already got all the forms and evidence documents as listed in step-by-step guide chart here, so I felt very confident and had no pressure at all at that time.

However, one week before going to Guangzhou for interview, just for curious, I googled to see the reasons why ppl, who had K1 experience before, got rejected or pending after the interview, and I thought I could try to avoid those happening on me.

Unfortunately, the more reading and searching, the more nervous I was. I found out there were sooo many details need to pay more attention on and should get prepared, especially when knowing that my finance's last year's tax return was not enough as immigration required, since he was working in china and didn't pay much tax to US government.

So, in the midnight of my flight day to guangzhou, I got his parent's forms and all the evidences as joint sponsor to me. And they scanned these hundreds of pages for me, even including their last 3 years IRS tax return books, imagine that.... :S And I also prepared my finance's diploma, his resume, my resume just for in case.

With all the new printed documents, I carried thousands of papers all around in those two days, waiting in the crowded line everyday, 2 hrs before the informed time, in front of Guangzhou consulate building. Every process went pretty much like what i learned from website, so it was ok. The consulate is very strict at security check, no water, no food, no cell when you finally get into the waiting room with a case number. First day is material submission, all by Chinese staff, pretty mean attitude actually. And fingerprints recording, by American staff. The second day is interview day, mine was 7:30am, still the same case number.

At that time, I thought I would definitely got pending result and needed to submit back the original forms with his parent's signatures and waited for the consulate further feedback. Since we already bought the roundtrip flight tickets in Dec. for my finance, made reservations for wedding photo shooting, restaurant for banquet and other plans right after P3 arriving, I felt so frustrated that I might need to delay everything and waited longer without knowing when the end will be.

Luckily, the VO for my case was a young lady, very nice and easy to talk to. She asked the routine questions like: "who sent this application for you?" "How did you two meet?", and with my explanation, she then asked: "What was his job at that time and what's yours?" "Have you met each other's family?" "What do your parents think about you will going to live in another country?" etc.

The conversation went very smoothly and her smile really calmed me down a lot. I put all the papers at the counter window, ready to submit anything if she needed. But she only checked the photos i brought, and returned them to me quickly after only checking half of them.

Then she started typing on the computer. Using this blank time, I said, "I bought my finance's current job stuff, do you wanna check?" And she answered "Oh, It's ok. Don't worry about that~". Then she turned back to me and said: "well, everything looks fine, your visa is approved. You can go back and wait for our delivery. Congratulations!"

I was sooo surprised it was short without any supplements, so I asked "Really?? I can just leave my passport here and that's it??" She smiled and said "Yeah, well, you know, it usually will take 7-10 days."

So, that's it. I went to the interview with everything I could think about, holding the thought I wouldn't got approve at all, huge nervous and frustrated, but got a happy ending surprisingly! And 10 days later, I received my visa package at home.

Well, I know people will say I was way too crazy and worried, but I wanna defending for myself: How can you be sure what kind of VO you will going to deal with? What if he/she is tough type and ask for anything that you could prepared but just didn't? Can you afford for the delay??

On my interview day, the VO, sat at the counter which was in front of where I was seated while waiting, reviewed every document in the case file carefully before he called the interviewer to come up. And he took 30-40 mins for each case, asked lots of questions. During the time I was waiting, he only finished 3 interviews, and they all left with blue sheet, means pending and need to submit more documents.

So my suggestion is: No need to worry too much, but still should learn more and get fully prepared as much as you can.

Btw, for Chinese here, highly recommend this website for K type or CR type marriage relevant visa,

http://usa.bbs.net/bbs/01/index.html

Hope this is useful for you! Sorry this is a little too long... GOOD LUCK!

[RICARDO4EVA2 194]

[Tintin and Mike 127]

Great news, congrats!! Keep 'em approvals coming :dance:

[Pitaya 2,577]

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

Welcome to the forum!

That is great news! 好消息！！

Your interview experience sounds very similar to my wife's. Please be sure to post your review in your timeline.

Wishing you continued good fortune on your immigration journey.

Edited October 20, 2012 by A&B

[Darnell 8,478]

Thanks so much for pasting your post into yer embassy review in yer timeline.

Helps those coming up behind you, always.

Congrats on the approval !

[LH&me 2]

:wow:

I'm getting nervous thinking about the interview. I think it mostly depends on the type of interviewer. It is unfair though. They shouldn't approve/deny visas based their moods. They should have a set standard to interview. I just hope I get a good CO.

Congratulations, by the way!!!

[Krikit 1,164]

Congratulations.

Moving from Process to Progress.

[bigdog 376]

Congratulations, great job.