hello all,
i would like to say that i was in your shoes just recently, but, i have gotten the visa for my wife (russian citizen) did the interview in
warsaw poland, i also tried to move the interview to another country but, no avail.. so, i opened up a schengen visa for my wife for hungary, for two weeks,
they gave us the schengen visa within two weeks (from st.petersburg visa center) we had the interview within a week or around 8 days after receiving the schengen visa, (just letting you
know how close all the dates were, and mind you my wife is pregnant about 2 months in..) we went to budapest hungary, stayed there for a few nights then went to poland by car. (also can go by bus, no checks on borders, i drove in a rental car, and no borders/no checks, do not worry) came to poland a day before the interview, and went to the interview the next day, my wife had the interview with a translator, apparently we didn't have like 2 docs they wanted... (i fault the uscs for this as they asked for a w2, while i didn't work any w2 in the past 3 years, so, i didn't send them) and they wanted my wives document for name change.. (weird) my wife returned from the interview, and told me they needed more docs.. so i sent them within an hour (1099's and name change).. they told her they would look into the docs and send us an email to return.. (we were short on time, with schengen visa and just by my booking dates/plans for poland, this was tuesday) i didn't wait for the EMAIL, as i know these guys DO NOT CARE FOR MY WIVES URGENT NEED OF A VISA TO THE US, i returned with my wife to the consulate the next morning, the day before (tuesday) when they told my wife they need extra docs, they also gave her a pink paper basically letting the people at the consulate door that she would return, they accepted her back in, and NOT ME, as i wanted to explain some things to these (dorks) the door lady didn't let me in... mind you i am the husband, sponsor, and petitioner.. so much for being a citizen.. and having any rights.. my wife went inside went to a window to complete the interview this lady spoke russian, so, no need for a translator, my wife told her, and gave her the requested docs (as we printed them out as well) and she LOOKED at the yesterday submitted docs (just pointing out that they would have taken all week to send us an email to return back, and by that time my wives schengen might have already been invalid for all they cared..) she took my wives passport and basically within a day or two the passport was ready.. we picked it up at the pickup location they suggest.. (it's a bit of a drive) but, got the visa, everything went according to plan, ask away would love to help