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| Juarez, Mexico |  Review on September 8, 2014: |
Sascafig
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-2 Visa
Interview was for IR-2 visas for 4 stepsons of US citizen married to their father, an LPR. Two boys were minors, the others age 19. Appointment time was 9:15 am, they arrived with their father at 8:30 am and he was allowed to accompany them through the process. They were admitted to the consulate waiting area and gave over their interview letters, ACS-stamped DS-260 confirmation, passports, and tourist visas. The man who took these documents then reviewed a large package of the documents from the NVC stage, gave them a number and asked them to wait. At around 9:10 they were told to line up and were walked over from the waiting area building to the main consulate building. After a while the group they were waiting with were formed into about 20 lines of 6 people each. They were instructed that when a window became available to talk to the consular officer in the cluster they were assigned to, to just walk up to the window for their interview. As they reached the front of their line they heard one lady tell the man at her window "You cannot legally enter the United States at this time." He walked away with his refusal notice and my husband stepped forward to peek into her area to see if she was ready (praying the whole time that she wouldn't be the one to interview them!). She saw him looking over and waved him away motioning to her phone and saying she needed to place a call (phew!). My husband then noticed another consular officer with an open window and he and the boys were waved over. Immediately the man smiled and told my husband that him and the boys looked like a basketball team, or maybe the four kids were his bodyguards. He was extremely good-natured, and began to look through the paperwork and called out the boys names to which they responded so he would know who was whom. He noticed the two older boys had the same birthdate to which they responded "We are twins" simultaneously. He then told them "Oh yeah? I'm a twin, too!" He asked them if any of them had tattoos (nope), and what they did back in GDL (they responded with the last grade of school they each had completed). Then he smiled again and told my husband "You know, your wife must love you very much. Right now all is calm at your house but that's going to change!" and chuckled again. He asked the twins how old they were when I married their father (17) and he asked where they will live in the USA. He asked also "So, why do you want to go to gringolandia?" They all laughed at that one and said they miss their dad. He then went through the passports and the eldest's tourist visa. He jokingly said "Only one of you has a tourist visa? What, you don't like my country?" They just smiled uncomfortably at that one (they were denied a tourist visa about 18 months ago and it's a little bit of a sore subject still). That was it! You're visas are approved!
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #15156