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| Guangzhou, China |  Review on December 21, 2012: |
dronden
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
I just finished my interview today, and passed it.
We showed up at 12:00 for document intake day, and ended up leaving at 2:45pm. They gave everyone a ticket and the number was called randomly. They only took the documents listed on the e-mail, with the exception of the tax transcripts(which were collected the next day). He asked some questions which was surprising to me, because I haven't seen anyone mention questions on document intake day. They were easy questions, mostly about my Australian stay which was about 8.5 years, and whether I was in the CCP.
We showed up at 6:45am on the interview day, and they started letting people in at 7:30am. While waiting to be let in outside, they arranged people based on the previous day's notice document. Once organized, there were 3 lines of people whose notice documents had a green dot on them, and 1 line of people without. Once inside, the process was similar to the day before; people were called to the interviewers randomly. There were about 6 or 7 windows open, one of which was for further information if you had questions, so 5 or 6 were interviewers. As far as I could tell all the interviewers were fluent in Mandarin, and their native language is English.
Before any of the interviewers' window were opened, all the applicants had to swear an oath, in Mandarin and/or Cantonese.
Like people mentioned before, there were "easy" windows and "hard" windows. AFAIK, the "easy" ones are for marriage related immigration applicants including any children. There were 2 or 3 windows(male interviewers) for marriage visas, judging from the applicants' age and from what I could hear. There was one window whose applicants all went in pairs and were elderly. The last window's applicants were all families, they went in big groups of parents and kids. Those two windows' applicants really got drilled, the interviewers(female) asked tons of questions, and the applicants generally stayed up there for about 10mins.
When it was my turn, I got one of the male interviewers, just as I had anticipated, (pretty smart, huh?) The interviewer was in his early thirties and very friendly. He greetly me in Mandarin, and I responded in Australian XD. He smeemed to be perfectly happy to speak in English(I can't remember another interview being done in English). He asked very few questions, how we met; where does my husband live; that's all he asked about our relationship. Then he seemed to be more interested in my stay in Australia, we chatted a bit about that. He then told me the I-864EZ form my husband submitted wasn't valid, and we'd have to submit a regular I-864 document. We filled in the form, then had to mail it and my passport, to the embassy, from a post office down the street.
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