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| Nepal |  Review on February 16, 2007: |
maya62
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
We filed for K1 for my fiance and K2 for his son. Our packet 3 got lost in Kathmandu (big surprise) and so my fiance picked up a new packet 3 from the Consulate.
When my fiance turned in packet 3 in person at the Consulate, he was told to come back THE NEXT DAY for his interview, and bring more pictures (we had submitted only 3 with the I-129F). I had a bit of a panic when he called and told me this, because I had planned to be there with him at the interview, bringing with me the bulk of our Evidence of Relationship, as well as the originals of the financial docs for the I-134. He had only a small amount of evidence, copies of the I-134 package, and a few more pictures. But they (he and his son) did just fine without me!
They showed up a little ahead of time, with more pictures, and were called up to the window separately, my fiance first. He was asked if he spoke english, he said "yes" and so his interview was conducted in english by a nice, tall young man with blond hair. He asked:
when did your fiancee first come to Nepal?
when and where did you first meet your fiancee?
where does she live in the US?
how many brothers and sisters does she have?
did you have any kind of a celebration?
how many people were there?
who was there?
His son (9) was interviewed by a Nepali employee, in Nepali. She asked:
where do you go to school?
what level are you in school?
when is the last time you saw your Nepali mom?
have you ever met your American mom?
has your American mom ever sent you anything by mail?
The interview went very smoothly and my fiance was told they were approved. The Consulate took their passports and they were told to come pick them up about a week later. One of the visas had an error and had to be returned for correction, which coincided with the biggest national holiday and so the correction was very slow (2 weeks), but overall, our experience with the US Consulate in Kathmandu was good. My fiance said everyone was very nice.
Epilogue: When we went back (after several tries and a fair amount of waiting, which is normal in Nepal) to collect the corrected visa, I was told discreetly by one of the guards that we might have better results if I (the USC) went in there myself and asked for the passport with the corrected visa. She was right... I walked out 10 minutes later with it in my hand.
I have to chuckle remembering that... when I first went in, there was this whole group of chairs... maybe 60, all in rows, almost all empty. They were facing the sides of the room rather than the front, where the windows are. I just sat down in one near the row of windows and waited. One of the Nepali guards came and pointed to me where there were just a few (maybe 6 chairs) off to one side, apart from the big group, facing the windows, and indicated to me that is where Americans are supposed to sit! LOL! When the CO called me up to the window a few minutes later, I was very polite and said we had been trying to get the corrected visa for a couple of weeks - because of Dashain- and now we were in a bind because we had a flight in 2 days (I had the plane tickets in my hand), and I WASN'T complaining, but was there anything he could do? After a short wait, he came back with the passport & corrected visa. Hallelujah!
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