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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on November 18, 2006: |
Leafgal
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Everything seems to have changed. Got there at 7 am, security is tight so take as little as possible to help speed up the process of getting through security. They only let 2 interview people in to pass through security at a time. Then as they will instruct you, take a seat in the waiting area to wait for security to let you in the elevator (if you try to stand near the elevator they will tell yo through the intercom to take a seat). Once in the elevator, of course you still go directly to the back. When you get off the elevator head to Window 6, which is straight ahead out of the elevator and then turn left and go down the hall. They will ask you for your interview letter, then they will call you up to give your documents. Then they will tell you to go to window 12 to pay (that window wasn't open until 8:15) then take the reciept back to window 6 (someone else was there when I went back so another window asked me to drop in the reciept to her). Then you have to go out to main waiting room to wait for them to call your name (no numbers for the K1 visas). When they call your name you will be instructed which room to go in for your interview. When I got called in was asked how we met each other, was I planning on working in the US, and when I was planning on leaving, then he gave me my card to enter the Consulate the next day to pick up the visa. I was finished at 8:45 am.
Everyone was very nice at the Consulate. I forgot to give the taxes and and employment letter when I gave all the other paperwork so I offered those up and my interviewer said he was going to ask for them and he only looked at 2005 and then went and copied it and gave me back the original.
When I went back for the Visa it was all very organized once again. Arrived to pick up the visa at 2 pm, they didn't let anyone in until 2:20 (and then through security again), and was out of there with the visa by 2:50, again everyone very nice.
I do suggest walking to the consulate the day before so you don't have any problems finding it since it is not marked. It is on the corner of St. Alexander and Rene Levesque, entrance in on St. Alexander. I also suggest when coming back to get the visa take as little as possible to get through secuity quicker. There is no guard to take you up to the 19th floor to pick up the visa so the quicker you clear security the quicker you get upstairs.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #1035