Interview London Embassy

[Karen and John G 0]

Appointment was at 9:30 AM.  Both husband (Applicant) and self (US Citizen/Petitioner) attended.  We were in there by 9:15, documents reviewed, no copies taken, only one picture was required.  We sat for about 20 minutes and then interviewed by second CO and asked:  1)  How did you meet?  2)  When did you first meet in person?  3) When did US Citizen arrive in the UK for this interview trip?  4)  How many times had applicant been in the US?  After these questions, the CO said he was happy and returned our original documents and said he would approve the visa and took my husband's passport.  Very smooth, done by 9:45.  I was in shock.  Both CO's were very polite, professional and respectful, even light hearted.  They did not review any relationship evidence despite us bringing pictures, chat logs, co owned bank statements, etc.  Overall experience was extremely good and the easiest part of our Visa Journey thus far. 

 

As an added note - we hired a lawyer in the hope that it would expedite our process and that forms that we found difficult to complete would be filled in well, accurately and save us time.  However, the woman we used only filled out the I130 and Affadavit of Support, had us do the rest.  The two forms were riddled with errors (typographical).  She held our paperwork for over 5 weeks before filing initially.  In addition, failed to give us basic information that my husband, having lived in another country, would require two police certificates, which took a further 3 weeks to obtain.  She or her team uploaded documents to CEAC that hadn't been proof read and were rejected due to not showing irrelevant wording at the bottom.  Overall, we paid $2,500 for a service that was inadequate and cost us 9 weeks of time.  If English is your first language, save yourself the money and time and do it yourself.  It really wasn't difficult at all.  The worse part is the waiting for answers.

[Just Observing 34]

Congratulations 👍 on your approval and enjoy the years ahead!!! In my estimation (although I don't have data on immigrant visa approvals to back up my claim), immigrant visa applications for Canadian and British immediate family petitions will have the highest approval rates and lowest number of required evidence.

 

Low fraud highly developed affluent English speaking countries, doesn't get easier than that in the application pool.

Edited May 29, 2019 by Just Observing

[Bayman 65]

congrats .

[J2D 7]

Hi, first of all congratulations! 

 

You say that you also attended the interview, I am the applicant and my wife is the petitioner so I'd just like to know if we should plan for he to fly over around the interview date as I was under the impression only I had to attend. 

 

Thanks! 

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Process & Procedures to Progress Reports.