Small world

[GP1977 288]

Just a short story because it is a small world. My wife and I went to a Ukrainian festival outside of dc today and I went to grab a beer and she was running to the restroom. As I am standing in line I see this lady around the corner who i looks very very familiar. I know the face but can’t remember where she is from. I get my beer and i remember it was the consul officer in Kyiv who did our interview. 

 

I turn around and walk back over to her, tap her on the shoulder and ask her if she worked in the Kyiv embassy. She said yes and I said I thought you looked familiar you did my wife’s interview for her k1 visa.   At this point Iryna is back and says hello. The.co smiles and says she is happy to see us together sad tells us she just got back from her tour in Kyiv. At this point I say well I am sure you don’t remember us but I wanted to say hello and she smiles and says sorry I don’t remember you, I did 100 interviews a day. Which I thought was a very  high number. She wished us luck. Small world.

[Highmystic 234]

3 hours ago, GP1977 said:

 I get my beer and i remember it was the consul officer in Kyiv who did our interview. 

 

 

 

good memory.  I guess that was before the beer!!! LOL  BTW,  what kind of beer?

[TBoneTX 46,294]

Very small world.

 

The CO who interviewed hosed Mrs. T-B.-to-be had better hope that I never run into him...

[millefleur 5,047]

4 hours ago, GP1977 said:

At this point I say well I am sure you don’t remember us but I wanted to say hello and she smiles and says sorry I don’t remember you, I did 100 interviews a day. Which I thought was a very  high number. She wished us luck. Small world.

Could've been for visas other than K-1's or spouse visas. That's my guess. I agree that it is a lot, sounds like they're really working people at the Embassies, it's a little worrying. Maybe it was less than 100 a day but it just felt like it, we've all been there at jobs where the work felt like much more than it actually was.

[TBoneTX 46,294]

16 minutes ago, millefleur said:

Maybe it was less than 100 a day

Definitely fewer, but still a lot.  Almost certainly a bunch of NIVs mixed in.

[GP1977 288]

9 hours ago, Highmystic said:

 

good memory.  I guess that was before the beer!!! LOL  BTW,  what kind of beer?

Lol, yes It was before the beer.  It was an obolon beer

 

[GP1977 288]

8 hours ago, millefleur said:

Could've been for visas other than K-1's or spouse visas. That's my guess. I agree that it is a lot, sounds like they're really working people at the Embassies, it's a little worrying. Maybe it was less than 100 a day but it just felt like it, we've all been there at jobs where the work felt like much more than it actually was.

I agree with you that it was probably less than 100 a day or maybe she had a day here or there when she does 100 in a day.

 

I think when we were there for our interview,  there were 16 or so interviews that morning and she did all of them.  It was a mix of K1's, CR1's and there was one person who was there for the green card lottery.   We were one of the last ones didn't get out there until about 11am and they started at 8 or 830 I think..  Id imagine if she was doing tourist visa's she would be able to get through those a lot faster than what she gets through a IV interview.

 

[millefleur 5,047]

6 hours ago, GP1977 said:

I agree with you that it was probably less than 100 a day or maybe she had a day here or there when she does 100 in a day.

 

I think when we were there for our interview,  there were 16 or so interviews that morning and she did all of them.  It was a mix of K1's, CR1's and there was one person who was there for the green card lottery.   We were one of the last ones didn't get out there until about 11am and they started at 8 or 830 I think..  Id imagine if she was doing tourist visa's she would be able to get through those a lot faster than what she gets through a IV interview.

In Russia, I got the impression that NIV and IV interviews are done by different types of CO's. The CO's who do tourist visa interviews tend to have pretty mediocre Russian, whereas the CO who did our IV interviews spoke Russian totally fluently. It might also be difficult to staff the consulates in Russia now due to the closing/US-Russia tensions going on. 

 

The tourist visa interviews are usually really fast, because most of the time, they have already made the decision before the person even starts the interview. I bet most of them don't last longer than a couple of minutes. 

[Carpe Vinum 2,331]

On 9/15/2019 at 8:25 PM, GP1977 said:

Just a short story because it is a small world. My wife and I went to a Ukrainian festival outside of dc today and I went to grab a beer and she was running to the restroom. As I am standing in line I see this lady around the corner who i looks very very familiar. I know the face but can’t remember where she is from. I get my beer and i remember it was the consul officer in Kyiv who did our interview. 

 

I turn around and walk back over to her, tap her on the shoulder and ask her if she worked in the Kyiv embassy. She said yes and I said I thought you looked familiar you did my wife’s interview for her k1 visa.   At this point Iryna is back and says hello. The.co smiles and says she is happy to see us together sad tells us she just got back from her tour in Kyiv. At this point I say well I am sure you don’t remember us but I wanted to say hello and she smiles and says sorry I don’t remember you, I did 100 interviews a day. Which I thought was a very  high number. She wished us luck. Small world.

If they are doing 100 a day they are also doing Tourist Visas....

Edited September 23, 2019 by boris64