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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on November 7, 2006: |
QC2CO
Rating:  | Review Topic: K3 Visa
Hi guys. I did my K3 interview on Wednesday the 25th. I drove to Montreal from Gatineau at 4am and got there at 6am. Had to pick up my medical results at Medisys on Sherbrooke Ouest. Then the fun began. Mapquest had me on a wild goose chase to find the consulate. I walked for at least 30 min in the wrong direction... in the rain. Then after stopping at a hotel to get directions, the Consulate was only 2 blocks away to the right on Rene Levesque, when I went left hehe.
Good advice is to leave cellphone, electronic car door devices in the car. Put your stuff in a plastic grocery bag, all of this saves alot of time when you are being checked at the door. I have seen a guy that was waiting with a nylon shoulder bag, and the office told him that he must leave the building with his bag, and bring it as far as possible away from the consulate. The guy ended up throwing away his bag in a garbage can, blocks away.
Then, when your number is called and you present the documents that they are requesting, this went very well. The woman was very nice. She informed me that when I get my interview for the CR1, I will need to bring another copy of a police certificate, and get another copy of my medical results, if the interview is within a year from when I did my last medical. If it is over a year, then I must do another medical exam. She informed me that the criminal record check can be done at a local police station, as long as it is indicated on the document that it is based on a national wide search.
So, after providing the documents, and paid the 100$ US, I waited to be called for the interview. They have you go in this small room, where the interviewer is behind a glass window. She had me raise my right hand and do an oath. Then she asked me 4 questions.
- Have you ever had any problems with the law or have any criminal records? No
- Have you ever had any problems at POE entering the USA? Yes. Why? Because I could not prove that had any ties to Canada. This happend 3 times in a row, then i was able to succesfuly cross 6 succesful times afterwards.
- Where did you both meet? At work, blah blah.
- Why have you decided that you were moving to the US and not your spouse moving to Canada. blah blah blah.
"Ok, come and pick up your visa tomorrow at 2:30pm". Gave me a ticket that I present at the door when I come and pick it up, and she walked out of the room. Pretty dry.  It sucks that you have to wait until 2:30pm the next day, unless you have an express post envellope. But for me, this option was best.
Then the next day, when you go pick it up, they wont let you in until 2pm (or was it 2:15pm), either way, you go back to the same floor as the interview, you wait in the room that they told you to go to, and you will be with other people waiting for their visas also. The window only opens at 2:30pm, and then this part is pretty quick. When you go up to the window, you give them your name, and they give you your passport/visa and an enveloppe that will only be opened once you cross the border.
I then drove to Cornwall/Messena NY POE. Can't remember how long it took for them to activate the visa, probably 30-45min. And there was a charge of 6$ US for something that I can't remember. I think this was worth doing before my flight, because it saved time the morning that I left by plane at the airport.
The day I took my flight, I just showed them my passport/visa and pretty much walked right through.  and now I'm in Colorado waiting for my CR1 visa interview date.
The end.
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