Ecuador US Consulate Reviews
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador |  Review #5467 on December 30, 2009: |
katraska78
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We arrived in the Consulate at 7,30. We had our appointment at 8,30. So we decided it would be a good idea to get there an hour earlier. We ate a sandwich and had a juice before getting on the line. The line was not so long and there were Consulate employees explaining processes and generally being of help to whatever questions people in the line asked.
They opened the doors at 8,15 aproximately and started letting people in. I went with my husband (the American Citizen) and once we were about to get in, we saw they were not letting the American Citizens inside the Consulate. At this point we have heard so many awful reviews and were so scared that we quickly made a decision based on what we felt, more than what we have been told. My husband stepped aside as he was told to, no questions asked, and I went inside. Once I was inside, I must say I was a little bit scared of the results of not being at the interview with my then fiancee, but just said to myself that things are always... read complete review
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador | Review #5462 on December 27, 2009: |
nutmeg
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***review for GUAYAQUIL, NOT QUITO (drop-down list doesn't include Guayaquil)***
Hi Ecuamericans!
I know my review is incredibly long but most of it is in form of a list (a list that looked beautiful in Word but looks crappy here). I did it this way because I remember how much I wished I could have found more lists and details at the time we were preparing for our interview. For a summary of overall impressions, scroll to the bottom.
•Appointment day/time: July 28, 2009, 8:30 AM (we were told to arrive 30 minutes early, so we did)
•Total time spent in Consulate: approx. 4.5 hours
•Items BROUGHT to Consulate per VJ’s advice and/or because I thought “better safe than sorry”:
o Jackets
o Paperwork (all organized into manila envelopes and color-coded with different color paperclips):
Copy of everything included in original I-129F
Copies of case-related letters: NOA1, N... read complete review
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador | Review #5449 on December 23, 2009: |
darwinsfinch
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Tips:
-make sure you go with your significant other-- it truly made it easier for us. He was much more calm as was I an I believe the service was better.
-Lodging: We stayed at Hotel Sol del Oriente and it was a short cabride or 30 min walk to consulate.. away an within walking distance to Malecon. It had AC , wifi which was sometimes not working the best and it was like 22 dollars a night with breakfast.
- You can be with them every step of the process at this consulate , from my experience, eventhough customer service on the phone told my fiance I couldn't come to the interview.
- our interview was in March 2009 and we arrived there at 8;30. Make sure you don't bring anything besides your paperwork, other items must be checked in with a guard. Make sure you eat before hand.
There were no lines or waiting outside the consulate the day I went , and we went through th... read complete review
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador | Review #5348 on December 3, 2009: |
MoonStar9913
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Hello everyone, I have finally gotten around to posting my review of Guayaquil. We had an appointment scheduled on November 30th, 2009 at 8:30am. We arrived a little before 8am and outside the consulate there are three “entrance-gates” with non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas, and US citizen services written above. There were some people waiting there so I wasn’t sure what to do but we worked our way to the front and asked a man working for the consulate and he told us to go on through. After the preliminary security check, they let us on through and we entered the building but there was no electricity so we had to wait almost an hour until they fixed the generator because we hadn’t passed through the metal detector yet but we talked with the guard while we waited and though at first he seemed very serious, by the end he was cracking jokes.
After the electricity came back on they told us to go upstairs and take a seat. (We had turned nothing... read complete review
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| Guayaquil, Ecuador | Review #5158 on October 29, 2009: |
Zee21
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Hello all, We had our interview on 10-26-09 in the consulate in Guayaquil. We arrived the day before and stayed in a hotel across the street. The night before we decided to go out for dinner so we grabbed a taxi and started looking. The city of Guayaquil is dirty and a scary. Crime is so bad right now that the military has started helping the local police with road blocks.We were stopped twice and I was taken out of the taxi and searched with my hand against the car. The next morning our interview was at 8:30am so we showed up at 8:00am. There was a line of about 50 people. I guess everyone had the same interview time. We were searched and told to go upstairs and wait. We had a guy from the consulate come and explain to all of us about the process. There was about 35 people in the upstairs room. Then about a hour later the guy that does the interview came upstairs and explained the process to us again. He also told us that he does the interview and his partner does them also but she is... read complete review
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