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| Juarez, Mexico |  Review on May 31, 2015: |
frida_e
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Day one: arrived in Juarez Airport and took a taxi from the Travel Agency, Monica. They charge $245 pesos to the hotel area right next to the embassy. We booked our stay already at Hotel Ibis. Received our room only to find out that the shower wasn't working so while they did maintenance, we just watched T.V. Then later found out we had to switch rooms the following morning. Also, we would need to use the restroom of another room to shower, meanwhile. Lame!!! They gave us two breakfast passes to "make up" for it... That night we ate at the hotel where the prices for the food are ehh so so and of course the portions are not too big but the food is so so. Did not get any sickness lol.
Day 2: My fiances, medical exam was set up at Medicos de Visas, located behind the hotel basically ($190 dls and they don't charge tax for the exam, they say if vaccine shots are included maximum is $360dls). His exam was originally for 11am, but they called the day before notifying us that we could go in earlier and their transport would pick us up at 8:45am for our 9am exam. We had breakfast there at the hotel and it was actually good! We waited until 9:10am for our transport and it never arrived so we decided to just walk there instead. We went inside of the building with our three documents which were: passport, d-160 confirmation and either the letter confirming our interview or the one sent in from the embassy. Take both in case. We took all the documents either way. We waited about 10 minutes to be attended and my fiance had a picture taken and was asked questions such as my phone number and address in the U.S. (don't forget to write it down)! That took about ten minutes and then a nurse came out to take my fiance inside to another part of the building for the exam. My fiance felt a bit humiliated since he had never gone through such a thorough medical so be advised and ready to be a little shy and embarrassed :$. He went into the exam around 9:50am and was out at 10:15am. They told us to come back for the results around 3-4pm and again the transport would pick us up. This time, it truly did haha. We received his sealed package and were taken back to the hotel by the transport. We got ready and went to the mall across the street to eat at Las Alitas. It is delicious!! The prices are fair because you get a lot of food and the service was great as well that day.
Day 3: Free day so we went ahead and slept in and then went to Peter Paper Pizza for the salad, spaghetti and pizza buffet served from 12-4pm. It also has an arcade area. I highly recommend it for a distraction because we ate well and got to play and be carefree for a few hours. After that, we went home to rest and check our documents a million times haha and then tried falling asleep but we ended up not resting well because we were nervous for the next day (his interview).
Day 4: interview! We got up around 6:45am since his interview was at 8:15am. We quickly got ready and went over the documents and basics again. First, we arrived at a separate building from the embassy called the Sala de Espera (waiting room). We were there around 7:30am and he had to have his passport out, his d-160 confirmation page but the one that is signed and stamped at the biometrics appt, the mail received from the embassy telling us that our case was received and of course his medical sealed package. They checked the documents and sent us off to get in line to enter the embassy. He was in line outside the embassy by 7:45am. I left him there since we were too nervous already so I went back to wait at the hotel. I finished getting ready at the hotel and went to wait for him outside the embassy at about 8:40am. I was prepared to wait until 10am but to my surprise he was not out until 10:40am!! So here are the details you've all been waiting for. It was a nightmare also just waiting so I recommend waiting back at the hotel room because it's too emotional watching sad and happy people come out of the embassy with good or bad news. After the interview we went back to the hotel to rest and finally at night we went to dinner to Las Alitas again to celebrate :D
Day 5: We checked out of the hotel at 1pm and left our luggage there are the hotel while we went to eat and back to the mall. The luggage storing is free. We went back to the mall to celebrate again and went to Peter Piper Pizza haha.
Ricardos interview: He got in line outside the embassy and sent directly inside the embassy where his documents that were asked for at the Sala de Espera were checked. He was then given a number to sit and wait for about fifteen minutes until someone calls you up and sends you to another building. Again in that new building you sit down and wait and then they call you up to make a line to check all your documents such as your affidavit of support, birth certificates, all of the necessary documents where they ask for addresses and phone numbers and the receipt of payment as well and they take a art of our ticket number and mark it with a color. After that they send you to the chairs depending on the color of your ticket. He was sent to the green chairs. My fiance thinks they mark you blue if you are missing a document. Finally, you wait in the green chairs to be called for your interview with a CO. Since there was an error in my fiances fingerprints the CO said he couldn't find his file and to go back to with the previous officers. He got there and they told him that there was an error in his fingerprints and he would need to take them again right there and then. He was sent to a CO who was very kind and took his biometrics once again. Finally, he was sent back to the green chairs and by chance got the same CO who had not found his file. The CO greeted him and began looking over my fiances documents. The first questions asked were about our relationship. For example, how he proposed, how did we meet, how long we had dated for and he replied eight months and the CO commented it was a short time and asked again, then he asked what our plans were, and what I did for a living, where I worked and lived, If I spoke Spanish or if he spoke English. Then began the personal questions asking if he had gone to the U.S. Before and how, if he had tried to cross illegally, then seed if he had a criminal record, if he had tattoos and used drugs, then once asked again if he had had problems with the police in Mexico or the US. Then the CO said to my fiance: OK, I will check your record and if everything goes well and you're clean then your visa will arrive at the DHL office you requested. He did not congratulate him nor asked if he had any doubts or worries. He gave him a green sheet that tells us hoe to track the passport package. My fiance says he would overhear other CO'S kindly asking questions to the other people there and even congratulating them but his CO was just straight forward. This is why we began to have worries about him receiving his visa.
Let me explain my fiances situation: his passport and visa expired about ten years ago when he was underage. He did not renew because he wasn't well off economically and honestly he didn't have an interest in going to the U.S. Again. A few years after it expired, his passport was stolen from his home. He reported it but again never got a new one until a few months ago. Obviously, this situation is suspicious to the CO'S. Therefore, after analyzing all the context of the biometrics error and the lost passport, the CO had his doubts of course. So be prepared if you have a similar case to go through some stress.
Ibis hotel: 4/5 fair for the price and location. The hotel is clean and the food is alright. The portions are small but it is a hotel. I would not give it five stars because of the wager problem. Other than that, the staff was very friendly and attentive.
Las alitas: 5/5 delicious!! Large portions for the price! We went twice and ordered two bug burgers with fries and replaced them for specialty fries, added a liter and a half of beer with specialized cups with Michel add and paid 420 pesos.
Embassy: 4/5 They messed up by first letting my fiancé go through to the interview before first checking his biometrics so that was unprofessional on their behalf. My fiancé says that the lady who had attended him was new and was being instructed on how to do her job but even then her instructor permitted her to send my fiancé to the interview. Then he was sent back by the CO to the same lady only to have her send him off to another CO for the biometrics and get back in line all over again -_- javascript:emoticon(' ')
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