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| Senegal |  Review on November 18, 2015: |
ZaakirahM
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Based off of my notes from hubby's phone call:
Because Dakar is so understaffed, he actually had to help to translate other Gambians who spoke Mandinka (local language) better than English.
So he does not remember many of the questions that he was asked specifically, however he did say they asked a lot of questions about me, and they were looking at the pictures and evidence I submitted thru USCIS. Here are some of the questions he did remember:
How did you meet your wife?
Where does your wife live?
What does your wife do for a living?
Was asked about the mutual friend of ours who also filled out an affidavit for us and is also our joint sponsor.
He arrived about 7am for his appointment at 8am and had to write down name as a sign in process at the gate and waited in line until about 10am or 11am.
Once he entered, It was a man who called him to window who gave him back a big USCIS package of documents(everything I frontloaded) and only took his passport/passport photos, original documents, and the sealed medical envelope. They gave him the medical results back in the end.
He said it was easy and difficult at the same time and he would rather forget about it. LOL
He got a little nervous because they were giving him all the papers I frontloaded and just told him to sit down, with ticket number, and did not even ask for the copies of documents he brought. He waited for about 2 hours and he was the last person to be interviewed.
His ticket number was 108 (Ironically our special number because it took me 8 months to get a job and save the money for filing fees and then it took us 8 months to make it thru the process plus our NOA1 date was March 18th and interview date was November 18th), not to mention his appointment was at 8am.
It was a woman who interviewed him in a small room. It is the same woman who he helped to translate for others.
They did not look at the pictures even though he mentioned more than once that he brought wedding pictures; they only looked at the pictures I previously sent and took his passport and gave him a green ticket/piece of paper that says come back Tuesday at 2pm to pick up your visa.
He did not get originals back, but he did have copies and received back the other copies of the documents I sent previously to NVC and/or USCIS. He will provide them with the copies when he goes to pick up his visa.
So my advice is to definitely frontload and be patient!
(updated on November 19, 2015)
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