Courier Service, Iranian interview in Ankara

[BrassMoonGoldStar 1]

Iranian woman with k1 visa interview in Ankara.

 

We are trying to schedule the interview but we have to pick a courier service.

Please describe your experiences with this.

 

 

Since the embassy won't give the visa the same day she would need her passport to stay in the country and return home soon after.

1) is there any benefit in leaving the passport with them for sometime or going home and mailing the passport right away is better?

2) How does the courier service requirement  workout in the real world?

3) Any suggestoins

hard to believe anyone would ask you to mail your passport and wait to have it mailed back to your country. 

 

If I am understanding this process incorrectly please educate me.

 

I wasn't sure how to put this question in the middle east community 

 

 

 

[KULtoATL 1,551]

To answer your first question, IF they approve her visa application, the consular officer will usually keep the passport for visa issuance. So that's the "benefit" of it unless of course she doesn't want the visa! I personally have never read anything about people who mail their passport to the embassy (assuming this is what you're implying) for visa issuance. 

 

The selection of a courier service is either for the embassy to mail the passport back to her OR for her to self collect the passport from the courier service location. Now looking at this https://tr.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/91/2017/06/K1K2-Visa-Instructions-EN.pdf, it seems like the selection of a courier service is a selection of pick-up location for applicants that go through the Ankara embassy. In other words, they will not mail her the passport. She will need to collect from the courier service location which she has pre-selected at this stage.

 

Good luck!

 

PS: It is actually common that US embassies around the world ship a passport with issued visa via courier service back to the visa applicant. In my country, I can choose that or collect the passport myself. Just sharing some tidbit.

[BrassMoonGoldStar 1]

I think I have a preconceived notion and it's causing doubt for the interview process. The U.S. embassy holds the passport for K1 visas for Iranians in Turkey. Iranians have to leave their country to apply for the K! visa. Why is there passport taken when they are a visitor in another country. How are we to plan a stay in Turkey when we don't know how long they will have her visa.  Any insite?

 

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Dear Sir/Madam;

The applicant should chose a post office address in the city where she will await her passport. Usually applicants chose a post office close to their hotel in Ankara for the delivery of the passports. Iranian applicants tend to choose the post office in Ulus, Ankara for this purpose.

 

The passport is kept at our office to issue the visa inside. It takes around five business days for us to issue a visa inside a passport.