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| Sydney, Australia |  Review on August 1, 2012: |
RainbowDucks
Rating:  | Review Topic: Direct Consular Filing
K-2 - FOLLOW TO JOIN INTERVIEW.
I have already filed a review for my interview last year. This review is for my daughter who was a follow to join.
Contacted Sydney Consulate directly to start the follow to join process for my 15 year old daughter. She was not included as a follow to join on our original application, but circumstances changed and she needed to come to live with me in the USA. I have already entered the USA, been married and adjusted my status, but as it was within the 12 month period allowed for follow to join we contact consulate directly and were given instructions for the process.
After all of her paperwork was received by the Sydney Consulate, they issued her with an interview date (which was 3 weeks after completed information was received by them).
She attended the interview with a family member, and he was allowed to go upstairs with her as she is a minor, but he did not attend her interview with her (by her choice).
Same security routine as my own interview.
Once she passed all the security checks and was inside the consulate she took a number to wait. The first person she saw took her paperwork (passport, platinum express envelope etc), took her fingerprints and instructed her to take a seat and wait for the interviewer to call her.
She was interviewed by the young man there who is very nice (he did my interview last year also.
She was asked the following questions:
What is your mother's fiance's/husbands name?
How long have you known your mother's fiance/husband?
Where will you be living in the USA?
Who will you be living with?
When did your mother and step-father get married?
What does your step-father do for work?
What high school will you be attending?
What happened at your medical? (She was told that it was a personal question that she did not have to answer if she did not want to).
Are you looking forward to seeing your mother, brother and step-father?
She was then told she was approved and wished all the best of luck in the USA.
The whole process from beginning to end was about half an hour.
At no point did my daughter feel uncomfortable. She was treated respectfully and everyone was very helpful and friendly to her.
Just thought the information might be helpful for other parents who have minor's attending interviews without them for follow to join. 
Sydney Consulate was great.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #10115