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| Portugal |  Review on June 4, 2013: |
stankas
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Everyone was very professional, I arrived earlier, passed the inspection (metal detectors) proceeded to the interviews room, called to the window where all documents were shown. I was missing an affid avid hopping it wasn't necessary (wrong move). I was told I could submit it later through fax but they would only decide once the original was in their hands. I was told I could proceed to pay and that I would be interviewed anyway. I proceed to pay ans sat for about an hour until I was called to the consul window. She was very nice, asked me if I could sustain the conversation in english and started asking me questions about how we met and if I had been there. I told her that I had been with my future wife for 4 times and once with my children to spend Christmas and New Year's Eve and had photos of everything. She asked for the photos, asked some questions about the photos and told me that I would only have to submit the additional info. I paid to leave the passport so that the visa could be posted on it and left with a stone in my heart because we had no sponsor yet and her income wasn't enough.
I thought about every possibility and was denied by a branch of my family living in the US (Wow!) later we managed to find a friend and colleague who accepted being a sponsor and sent the needed papers. By negligence my future wife sent those by regular mail which took more than 15 days to arrive. After that I got a call from the embassy telling me those papers were not enough but if our friend added the information from her husband it would be ok. Again I called asking for that and this time the papers arrived faster. After almost one month from the interview I got the passport with the visa on it. The embassy staff was incredibly helpful and patient to cope with my everyday calls.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #12054