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| Tokyo, Japan |  Review on May 12, 2014: |
JA_Martinez
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Speaking on behalf of my husband here...so I'm sure there is so much more to say, but I'll do the best I can from what he's told me!
Interview appointment was yesterday 5/12(Japan time) @ 8:30am.
I booked him a hotel in Tokyo that was within a 7min taxi ride of the Embassy. He went up by train on Sun afternoon, spent the afternoon/evening with his son (who lives in Tokyo). They had a nice dinner together, talked alot, and relaxed at the hotel. He didn't sleep well, anxious, and was awake by 5am. But the had a nice breakfast and time to relax before he went to the Embassy.
He got to the Embassy by 7:45 (for his 8:30 appt); there were ten people in line in front of him. By 8:10 he had to turn his cell off!!!
The process was seamless! He was through all three of the preliminary windows pretty quickly and to the last (interviewer) window where there was a very nice American woman waiting for him with our 3" thick stack of documents in her hands. She had flipped through them to apparently do a quick review.
She asked him if he was nervous, he told her he was a little because he'd never been interviewed like this before. She told him not to worry and to relax it was all going to be fine. She asked him questions about how he and I had met, when we were married, my family name, and if we'd either been married before. He joked with her, told her he'd only been married once, but "his wife" had been married two times before, he thinks because I like to get married!!" (Bugger!) She laughed. Then told him his visa was approved and to get out of there and go home; that he didn't need to spend any more of his time in there.
ONE HOUR inside the Embassy! That was it! Easy breezy!
They will send his passport/visa and our original documents back to him within the week.
We have been very fortunate for this whole process to not be nearly as long and painful as it clearly could have been. We did alot of research and studying about Immigration Law, studied the USCIS website for well over a year to make sure we knew what to expect. I watched YouTube videos (done by Immigration Atty's) on how to complete each of the forms, did practice documents and organized all of our papers in file folders inside of large binders so I always knew where everything was when we needed it.
The only delay we caused through the entire (just short of a year) process, was not getting his Police Certs back quickly enough to make the interview appt cut off date for April. His medical appt went very well. I'd have to say the NVC process is very quick and precise, and everything flows pretty much like clockwork once you're there.
Thank you all here a VJ for making this process easier. Your experiences have been priceless to us and to many.
God bless you all. Be patient, be prepared, do your research, don't assume anything, don't leave anything out, don't guess at anything, and you will sail on through this as well.
I'm going back to Japan first week of August to help get him packed up, sell the car, get our doggie ready to fly and get out of there and back to the US by end of August! Woo hoo!!!
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #14431