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|  Review on November 29, 2012: |
Jarrod&Vicky
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
It couldn't have been easier!
It was pretty much like everyone else has already posted. Went 30 mins prior to the scheduled time, went to window 1 to announce myself as an "immigration visa" applicant, they gave me the famous green folder with an explanation on how to put the documents from packet 4 in order; and they let me right in (had no cellphone, no keys, nothing). Took my fingerprints and sent me to the building where I was given a number and told to wait next to window 5 (It has a sign that says Inmigration and a pic of the Statue of Liberty on top of it). Ten minutes later my number pops up on the screen, go there, and a nice gentleman told me to put (inside the green folder)just the medical, my 4 old passports and some new proof of ongoing relationship that I was bringing with me, because I had already sent all the originals with the packet 3. He also told me to wait because I was going to be called from window 12 to pay. I was called 15 minutes later and paid U$S 240 in pesos (you can choose the currency in which to do it) at the official rate (YAAAY!)(' ')
Then I sat down and had to wait for a while, I think approx. an hour... eventually my name was called from window 5 again. There was a lady leading the interview and a man behind her. The moment I sat down she told me "your file looks fine, everything is perfect and done... but I still have to ask you some questions" (implying she had to do it just as a formality... and she did).
She said "tell me a little bit about how you met" and I basically described how it happened to which she said "so while Jarrod lived in Argentina you both lived together?" to which I said yes, and she said "so Jarrod speaks Spanish?" to which I said yes, and with a very strong Argentinean accent now! (lluvia, pollo)... to which they laughed. That was it.
Took my passports away (both the current one to print the Visa and my old one where I have a B1/B2 visa that told me they will cancel).
The whole interview took, literally, less than 3 minutes.
My best piece of advice is: don't even waste a second being nervous about it! So easy and relaxed! 
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