Costa Rica US Consulate Reviews
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| Costa Rica |  Review #15711 on December 3, 2014: |
dani586
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· 2 people found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
I woke at 3am because I couldnt sleep. We took the 5am bus from Tilaran to San Jose. We got into san jose around 915 and we had to go to the Poder Judicial (Note only the one in San Jose gives international hojas de delicuencia). Anyways the Poder judicial is on the East side of San jose so we had to walk about 2.5 km to get there from the bus station. We got there around 10am and we were told that we need to buy timbres and then take the police report to the OIJ for a signature (across the street) Unfortunately here is where we started to run into problems. There is only 1 person (yes in the whole country) that signs these reports and She was in the Supreme court until 3pm. AHHHHH I started getting so stressed and I was crying because we have our interview at 12pm. Finally the lady tells me maybe maybe* she can try to get our police report signed when there is a break in the court, but she cant make any promises. Im stressed because I dont want to be late for the interview but al... read complete review
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| Costa Rica | Review #15736 on December 2, 2014: |
seau055
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· 3 people found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Had our interview on 12/1 for our K1 Visa. The day started with us arriving and being told that they do not offer K1 interviews at the hour we had originally been given...after having us wait about 10 to 15 minutes, the guards reviewed their list of appointments for the afternoon and saw that we were on the list and let us enter. Once inside, everyone we interacted with was incredibly friendly and helpful. We went inside, waited a few, then they let us into another room that looked sort of like the lobby of a bank. We met with a sweet lady for about 20-30 minutes where she reviewed all of our papers and documents...and also asked us a number of questions including how many times we had met, how we met, and a bunch of things like that. Pretty easy questions, mostly just about our relationship. After she went through all of the papers, we were told to sit down and wait for the cashier. Once the cashier arrived, we paid the $265 and were told to go to another booth (like the teller at the... read complete review
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| Costa Rica | Review #15409 on October 17, 2014: |
CaylinJean
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· 2 people found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
We arrived for our 12:00pm interview at about 11:50pm, and only had to wait about 5 minutes before we were called to the window to begin handing over our packet 3 contents. The woman asked for the DS-160, visa-sized photos, the affidavit of support and all supporting documents, and evidence of our relationship. We had it all ready, so had no problem with this part of the process at all. My fiancé then was asked to go to the cashier to pay the $265 fee, and then we were both asked about 4-6 questions which were normal (Where did you meet? What was it like? How long have you been dating? How many times have you visited each others countries? Do you know each others families? etc.) We were then asked to wait for the officer for the final interview.
The officer called us over and took my fiancé's fingerprints, and then asked us about 10 more questions that were very similar to the ones asked previously. He also asked questions about what we both do for work and where we pl... read complete review
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| Review #15250 on September 24, 2014: |
elgringo954
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· 2 people found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: Other Experience
Very pleasant experience and I scheduled my fiancé's medical one day prior to the interview. We flew down to San Jose on the 16th, gathered all updated documents needed in Costa Rica, had medical on Monday the 22nd, interview the following day, told us we could pick up her visa on Thursday and we have our flight back scheduled for Saturday. Very important to have all the paperwork correct; ie: translations from Spanish to English for all the civil documents obtained here in Costa Rica, the original docs from here in Costa Rica, etc..., because the woman before me was not prepared and had no translations and her docs were not originals so they told her to come back another day.
Thanks to VJ I had the phone numbers needed to speak to the doctor prior to our flight to schedule her medical and thus her interview date. And thanks to VJ I also didn't have to totally depend and wait on Packet 3 from the Embassy with their last minute instructions javascript:emoticon('![]() ... read complete review
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| Costa Rica | Review #14906 on July 27, 2014: |
pepper297
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· 1 person found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
When I was contacted by the consulate to pick up the initial packet, the lady there was very nice. I gathered the rest of the info needed and called to make an appointment. I was calling on a Thursday and made the appointment for the following Tuesday. The interview lasted about 5 minutes. I met with a really nice guy that could see I was very nervous. He asked me why and I told him it was because he had my future and my fiancee's future together in his hands! He told me to relax and that I didn't have anything to worry about. He was very nice and asked me several questions about my fiance and our relationship, including what type of vehicle she drove. Then.... I was approved! It was a great experience and completely different than any experience I had trying to get a tourist visa. My fiance visa was ready 2 days later.
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