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| Mumbai, India |  Review on November 23, 2012: |
capri_scorp
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Ok here's my husband's story at the Mumbai consulate on 23rd Friday...
My Husband reached the consulate at 6am. There was no line at all but it is because the guard didnot let the line to be formed until 7am and so everyone who came just stood as big group across the street.At 7am the security yells out to form "2 lines IV and Non-IV".
Ok 2 lines are formed and at 7:20, officer asks everyone to have their appoinment letter handy for quick check. Finally the line starts to move in, but it became 1 line again. After sometime an officer came and advised all IV candidates to not stay in line but to proceed and here we go again, fastest person to break the line gets in earlier for security check. At the security counter, they provided baskets to place watch, wallet etc and to walk through the screener. All that gets done and then falls back into a line towards a counter. Here the personnel attaches a double sticker which is the token number onto your appoinment letter with which you wait for your number to appear or name be called. My hubby gets the call first. Note: he was called by name and not token number.
It was a lady and she went behind the glass and took 1 part of the token sticker from his appoinment letter. then the following:
1. your name
2. petitioners name and relation
3. Please hand over your passport, PCC, medical report and your wife's 2011 tax return
4. handed back to my hubby, our marriage certificate and his birth certificate originals along with the USPS package that was sent to NVC. NICE!
5. took fingerprints and asked him to wait again
This time my hubby got a seat and before he could settle down, an officer came by distributing a form to be filled out for visa disposal.But he didnt finish when his token number appeared and he went to the respective window.
An elderly male officer, greeted each other and asked my hubby the following:
1. How long have you been waiting?
2. Love or arranged marriage?
3. where did you both meet?
4. Can I see your wife's pictures? handed out our small album. he browsed it in few secs and gave it back
5. what is your DOB?
6. What do you plan to do once in US
7. Have you been abroad
8. He requested to raise right hand and to take the oath
9. pushed out DS230 II form to sign
10. re-did fingerprinting again at the counter
11. congratulations and I will take your passport with me
My hubby was not sure if it all was over so fast. he filled out the visa form quickly (which he was completing before he was called to the interview counter) and went to the visa counter to submit the form and again made sure this will not affect his visa pick that was scheduled online. They took his cell phone number and said that they will text him when visa is ready and then he can pick up the visa.
Finally got out of the consulate around 8:45am
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #10945