Finland US Consulate Reviews
Average Rating: 4.3
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53 Review(s)
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| Finland |  Review #13643 on January 15, 2014: |
lrrrri
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Good experience overall. I showed up 10 minutes early for the interview. It is in Kaisaniemi now (used to be Eira at some point?). They buzz you in from the street, you go through security and then to the waiting room.
They call names out and first I dropped off all my documents. Maybe 20 minutes later they called me to give my fingerprints and then 15 minutes later the "interview" which was maybe 5 very basic questions. How did we meet, do we have a wedding date already, what's my fiancées job etc. Most of the time was just waiting for the processing in the waiting room with the other people.
They said that everything seems to be in order and they'll call me when I can pick up the visa package from the consulate, other people got it in the mail so maybe it's a new procedure for 2014.
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| Finland | Review #12595 on August 22, 2013: |
YuAndQiao
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Questions asked:
1. How/when did you meet?
2. What is your fiance's job?
3. Where was your fiance born?
4. Are you a member of the communist party?
"Approved"
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| Finland | Review #12533 on August 13, 2013: |
FinTex
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| Finland | Review #12440 on August 1, 2013: |
Lynkali
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· 3 people found this review helpful
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The K-1 interview was very painless, and somewhat anti-climactic since we were so well prepared and had waited so long (260 days between filing I-129f and the interview). It seems like July is a vacation time for them, since although we notified the embassy we were ready for the interview on June 25, they scheduled the interview for a month later, July 24.
The interviews are not held at the actual consulate, but rather at an annex very close to the main train station in Helsinki, on Kaisaniemenkatu 3 B/C. It's a strange place for an "embassy" -- there are hotels and cafes and shops on the ground floor, and a buzzer to let you in the door where you go up to the 5th floor for the interview process. I'm the US citizen fiance, and I was able to be in Finland during the interview (my choice, just moral support), but I wasn't allowed into the building at all -- I waited downstairs at a cafe for the whole time. (We had emailed in advance requesting permision, but the respo... read complete review
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| Finland | Review #12384 on July 23, 2013: |
furc
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· 1 person found this review helpful
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Very pleasant and fast experience as with everybody else.
Arrived at the consulate 10 minutes before the interview, was let in to wait immediately. After about 10 minutes was called to the window to hand in my passport & photos. After about 10 more minutes was called again for the fingerprints. Was then the last one to be called to the window for the interview that took 5 minutes at most. Signed the application and was asked few questions.
1. How did you meet?
2. When and where did you get married?
3. Is she in Finland?
4. How many times do you meet in a year?
5. Do you have children together?
6. What do you do for a living.
After answering the questions was told that everything seems to be ok, and should receive my visa in the mail in about a week. All in all took pretty close to an hour out of which maybe 50 minutes was just waiting.
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