Interview on May 7th

[Justo/Sheyla 0]

My wife received a call this morning from the USA Consulate in Managua asking her to be at the Consulate 8:00 AM, Monday May 7th.

Any advice from anyone on the possible questions and I-864?

-Justo.

[simple_male 1]

Congratulations! Take pictures and emails for the proof of your relationship. Plus take all documents that they asked you to bring.

My wife received a call this morning from the USA Consulate in Managua asking her to be at the Consulate 8:00 AM, Monday May 7th.

Any advice from anyone on the possible questions and I-864?

-Justo.

[MaydayDas 1]

Congratulations! Take pictures and emails for the proof of your relationship. Plus take all documents that they asked you to bring.

And good luck

[Eli_y_Mauri 0]

!!! Felicitaciones a Justo y Sheyla !!!

[CountryBoy 0]

Good Luck

[KHURRAM SERAJ 0]

Good Luck

[Phoebe and Georgi 0]

Justo:

Have you read the entire Embassy review posted by Ricardo? I am going to see if I can paste it below because I went through the entire thing and organized it in a way that would be helpful to me step-by-step:

AT THE EMBASSY: INTERVIEW DAY (PRE-INTERVIEW PROCESSES)

I. GOING THROUGH SECURITY & INTO THE FIRST WAITING ROOM ETC.

When you first go into the embassy you have to pass through Airport types of security measures.

§ Once you are inside they have a waiting area for a preliminary screening process where they ask you questions regarding your visit and then they inspect your paper work to make sure they you have everything you need before going into the Actual Main waiting room for your visa interview.

§ Since we were late to arrive there wasn't to many people ahead of us.

§ From what I witnessed in this preliminary screening process they did not reject anyone from going to the Main Interview waiting room.

§ When it was our turn to get attended during this prelimary screening they saw that we were late for our K-1 interview and did not ask us any further questions and they quickly proceeded to escort us to the main interview waiting room.

§ We passed another group of people in an outside waiting area (I think these were people who were there applying for a regular Tourist Visa)and

§ Then we had to pass another type of Airport type of security before they actually let us in to the Main Interview waiting room.

II. INSIDE THE MAIN INTERVIEW WAITING ROOM

§ Once we were inside they told us to take a seat and our name would be called.

§ The people that worked at the embassy were behind a glass window. The embassy had about 8 or so windows that were attending visa request (4 for Non-Immigrant visas (tourist visas) and 4 for immigrant visas (i.e. K-1).

§ We waited for about 2 hours before we being called up to a window.

III. DOCUMENTS THAT THE STAFF WILL ASK FOR BEFORE INTERVIEW

The lady there had our case in hand and told us to hand over to her our papers.

o First the DS-156 & DS156k Forms

o Then my fiancée’s birth certificate (We had gotten her birth certificate from our town's Mayor's office and the lady at the embassy told us that she needed a birth certificate from the Managua National Center. Luckily they let us submit the birth certificate that we brought). NICE PEOPLE!

o The medical exam results

o Police Records

o Proof of our relationship—

1. We submitted some pictures

2. E-mail records

3. Telephone records and

4. Some of my passport entry records from my prior visits)

o Finally our I-134 packet (with all the items mentioned above).

§ The lady reviewed all of our paper work and told us to take a seat.

THE ACTUAL INTERVIEW IN THE EMBASSY; )

SOURCE: VISAJOURNEY.COM EVALUATION OF MANAGUA EMBASSY

We again waited for about 1 1/2 hours before being called again, this time at a different window and by a Man.

§ When he called us up to the window he simply asked me in English several easy question about our relationship:

o When and how did when meet?

o Has either of us ever been married?

o Do either of you have any children?

§ After answering his question he gave us a card/slip, which is for the Nicaraguan Mail Service and told us that our case was approved!!!

§ He also said that her passport would arrive in the mail with the Visa inside.

§ With the card that he gave us we went to a table that is for the Nicaraguan Mail Service that was setup inside the waiting area.

§ We handed the lady the card and she told us that we can pickup her passport along with the packet 4 at the Juigalpa Post office in about 4 days.

§ She gave us a pickup slip and told us to present the pickup slip and her I.D. along with the equivalent of $8.00 in order to pickup her items at the post office.

Basically the interview process at the embassy is pretty straightforward. If you have all your papers in line then I do not see a reason why you should have any problems. The hard part is just gathering the paper work. I did not give it a 5 rating because the waiting time at the interview is pretty bad.

Note: We noticed that almost everyone applying for a immigrant visa was approved (out of about 30 cases I think only 2 were denied).

GOOD LUCK ON MONDAY! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I'LL BE THINKING OF YOU ALL!

PHOEBE

P.S. IS IT NECESSARY TO GET THE POLICE RECORD ETC. TRANSLATED?

[Justo/Sheyla 0]

Justo:

Have you read the entire Embassy review posted by Ricardo? I am going to see if I can paste it below because I went through the entire thing and organized it in a way that would be helpful to me step-by-step:

AT THE EMBASSY: INTERVIEW DAY (PRE-INTERVIEW PROCESSES)

I. GOING THROUGH SECURITY & INTO THE FIRST WAITING ROOM ETC.

When you first go into the embassy you have to pass through Airport types of security measures.

§ Once you are inside they have a waiting area for a preliminary screening process where they ask you questions regarding your visit and then they inspect your paper work to make sure they you have everything you need before going into the Actual Main waiting room for your visa interview.

§ Since we were late to arrive there wasn't to many people ahead of us.

§ From what I witnessed in this preliminary screening process they did not reject anyone from going to the Main Interview waiting room.

§ When it was our turn to get attended during this prelimary screening they saw that we were late for our K-1 interview and did not ask us any further questions and they quickly proceeded to escort us to the main interview waiting room.

§ We passed another group of people in an outside waiting area (I think these were people who were there applying for a regular Tourist Visa)and

§ Then we had to pass another type of Airport type of security before they actually let us in to the Main Interview waiting room.

II. INSIDE THE MAIN INTERVIEW WAITING ROOM

§ Once we were inside they told us to take a seat and our name would be called.

§ The people that worked at the embassy were behind a glass window. The embassy had about 8 or so windows that were attending visa request (4 for Non-Immigrant visas (tourist visas) and 4 for immigrant visas (i.e. K-1).

§ We waited for about 2 hours before we being called up to a window.

III. DOCUMENTS THAT THE STAFF WILL ASK FOR BEFORE INTERVIEW

The lady there had our case in hand and told us to hand over to her our papers.

o First the DS-156 & DS156k Forms

o Then my fiancée’s birth certificate (We had gotten her birth certificate from our town's Mayor's office and the lady at the embassy told us that she needed a birth certificate from the Managua National Center. Luckily they let us submit the birth certificate that we brought). NICE PEOPLE!

o The medical exam results

o Police Records

o Proof of our relationship—

1. We submitted some pictures

2. E-mail records

3. Telephone records and

4. Some of my passport entry records from my prior visits)

o Finally our I-134 packet (with all the items mentioned above).

§ The lady reviewed all of our paper work and told us to take a seat.

THE ACTUAL INTERVIEW IN THE EMBASSY; )

SOURCE: VISAJOURNEY.COM EVALUATION OF MANAGUA EMBASSY

We again waited for about 1 1/2 hours before being called again, this time at a different window and by a Man.

§ When he called us up to the window he simply asked me in English several easy question about our relationship:

o When and how did when meet?

o Has either of us ever been married?

o Do either of you have any children?

§ After answering his question he gave us a card/slip, which is for the Nicaraguan Mail Service and told us that our case was approved!!!

§ He also said that her passport would arrive in the mail with the Visa inside.

§ With the card that he gave us we went to a table that is for the Nicaraguan Mail Service that was setup inside the waiting area.

§ We handed the lady the card and she told us that we can pickup her passport along with the packet 4 at the Juigalpa Post office in about 4 days.

§ She gave us a pickup slip and told us to present the pickup slip and her I.D. along with the equivalent of $8.00 in order to pickup her items at the post office.

Basically the interview process at the embassy is pretty straightforward. If you have all your papers in line then I do not see a reason why you should have any problems. The hard part is just gathering the paper work. I did not give it a 5 rating because the waiting time at the interview is pretty bad.

Note: We noticed that almost everyone applying for a immigrant visa was approved (out of about 30 cases I think only 2 were denied).

GOOD LUCK ON MONDAY! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I'LL BE THINKING OF YOU ALL!

PHOEBE

P.S. IS IT NECESSARY TO GET THE POLICE RECORD ETC. TRANSLATED?

It is not necessary to get police record or any other document translated.

Everything for the interview should be fine, except I'm a little concerned about my financial situation. I'm afraid they will ask her lot of questions, where they will not be satisfied.

Thanks for the good wishes.

Will keep u posted.

[Eli_y_Mauri 0]

Justo-

Don't have any advice just a good luck and thanks for the info you sent.

I got an email from the embassy on Friday letting me know that Mauricio can go to the embassy on Monday the 7th to pick up the packet for the interview and he is to ask for Blanca Perez. Looks like both he and Sheyla will be there at the same time

-Elizabeth

[csoul 0]

Justo, please after the interview give your review of the interview here. Normally the people only write here to ask a doubt or when need an answer but just a few leave experiences and reviews of good and finals events!

Good Luck!! B)