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| Auckland, New Zealand |  Review on June 4, 2007: |
Ailema
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Originally my interview was scheduled to be 1 month from the time I got my pink letter in the mail. Given the fact that I'm sure not many people from New Zealand would be wanting to immigrate to the U.S, I emailed my consulate asking if it were possible for an earlier interview date as I already had all of my forms/medical results ready and compiled in order. I got a reply the next day which brought my interview forward 2 weeks! AND it was at 8:30am, which might be a problem for some people but not me. Honestly it just meant I wouldn't have to mess around for half the day sick to my stomach with nerves.
Interview was ridiculously easy! I arrived really early with a backpack stuffed full of relationship evidence and duplicates of every single form required for the entire process + the tax records of my spouse and co-sponsor and turns out I didn't need ANY of it! (I would still have taken it though  ) 8:30 was the time for first block of interviews. Perfect! besides queuing up for security before entering the consulate, I didn't have to wait at all.
The first woman I spoke to at the immigration counter just looked over my forms (the ones we had submitted to the consulate/embassies) to make sure everything was in order and then said I would need to wait a while for the actual consulate officer to interview me.
The actual interview consisted of only one question. He asked how long we had been married, that was it! I don't know if the things we had submitted looked very genuine or something but I thought overall that was wayyy too easy. He too looked over my forms, handed me some welcome forms/faq forms and said "Welcome to the United States!"
The only mistake I made was having taken in a courier bag with no tracking, luckily all I had to do was run down to the first level of the building where there was a postshop and run back up again :D
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #1667