Italy US Consulate Reviews
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| Naples, Italy |  Review #8272 on September 8, 2011: |
ABandIG
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Had my interview just yesterday and thought to share my experience with you all hoping it can help somehow.
Day 1: Medicals
It was said on Packet 3 to be at the Istituto Varelli at 8.15 in the morning, I took a taxi at 6.30 and I was there just before 7o'clock and I was the first person in line.
Taxi are usually not that expensive, you can call RadioTaxi and they would charge you around 1 euro per minute, so if it's early in the morning and there's not so many people around, you should be ok with 10, 15 euro.
Just after a couple of minutes we were already four people and the institute opened at 7.00.
They told us to give them our passport and to take a sit on the famous yellow chairs (lol) so we did, waiting for the other people to arrive and for 8.30.
Then they started to call for the blood test....starting from the very last person arrived... O_o I thought something was wrong and they seemed to keep going backwards from the last one s... read complete review
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| Naples, Italy | Review #8191 on August 25, 2011: |
quickatie
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: Direct Consular Filing
Super smooth process!!
The key is to prepare prepare prepare!!!
All of the other reviews pretty much cover the detailed process of the medical/consulate appointment. Just a few tips from our personal experience:
Arrive early for all appointments!! We arrived at 8:15am for the medical, at 1:50pm the same day for fingerprints and at 7:15am the next day for the consulate and there were still around 10 people in front of us for each appt. The most important appointment to show up early for is the interview/consulate appt on the second day. We were there at 7:15am, but had to stay until around 11:30am. People who had shown up just 10 minutes earlier than us were done by around 10am.
Make sure you read and re-read the documents that you need to bring to the appointment!! The most common reason couples did not get approved that day was because they were missing the "Carichi Pendenti" document. You need this AND the "Casellario Giud... read complete review
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| Naples, Italy | Review #8065 on August 5, 2011: |
luisarsema
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
After we have calmed down a little about our interview and subsequent visa approval we are posting our experience.
We arrived in Napoli Monday in the afternoon after a two and half hour train trip from Roma. Tuesday early morning 8Am we had an appointment at institutto varelli. If you have a hotel in the city you will have to take a cab. Please make sure you pay whatever it reads in the meter because those cab drivers will try to take advantage of you.
We arrived at the instituto around 7:45 and headed for the reception. There is a paper in the wall that instructs all embassy appointments to turn in the passports and sit in the yeallow chairs in the right side of the reception. We waited a few minutes and someone called us. They were all very professional. After a coupole of hours of some tests and waiting we were done. However, they told us we had to be at the US consulate at 2pm to do fingerprints.
At 1:50 we were at the consulate together with all the Visa ca... read complete review
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| Naples, Italy | Review #7828 on June 26, 2011: |
ahlekm01
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· 3 people found this review helpful
Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: K1 Visa
The first day i got there (Naples) i had a horrible view of a city covered with trash...but then i realized that the trash itself was covering a beautiful city! Good people always willing to help you, amazing food (if u don't try the original pizza in Naples you're crazy!), and neat places that u need to discover only by yourself, because if you don't walk around a lot you'd have a bad opinion of Naples. Me and my mom (yes, don't go by yourself, you need support) stayed at the B&B Mergellina, very close to the embassy (about 10 minutes), very convenient (58 euro a night!), but don't expect anything amazing, you're not in a 5 star hotel. Let's talk about the important stuff.
Day 1: The medical exam.
If you're staying close to the embassy you definitely need to get a taxi, because the Istituto Varelli isn't close at all, don't even think about going for a walk!:D So you get a taxi (0815606666 is the phone number) and go to Via Cornelia dei Gracchi, the taxi ... read complete review
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| Naples, Italy | Review #7773 on June 16, 2011: |
kenash
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javascript:emoticon(' ') Everything went smooth! God was on our side! The instructions they give about the interview are very limited, not very clear. PREPARATION IS THE KEY!!!!
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