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| France |  Review on March 9, 2016: |
Jägermasterize
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Our overall Fiancé visa interview experience was really good and pleasant.
We were scheduled at 13h at the Paris embassy for our K1 interview, and arrived at 12h40. We waited outside until 1pm. We showed our passports, appointment letter and petition at a 1st checkpoint. My fiancé and I were invited to a second checkpoint where we passed security screening and left our cellphones and other items.
We then got into the consular section of the embassy and a nice young lady asked us for our type of visa. We answered fiancé and received a ticket with a number on it and we were invited to wait until our number appears on the screen of the waiting room where we sat down.
After waiting 20min, we were called a first time and went to a first counter. A lady asked us our appointment letter and ticket number. We then returned in the waiting room and sat down for another 20min until being called to a different counter. A smiling French lady asked us my passport, confirmation page of DS-160, police records, translations of police records and asked us a few questions: what is my work, where do I live and If I went to the US. When she asked the new intent to marry of my fiancé, she asked him directly if he still wanted to marry me. She was nice and playful which gave a more pleasant mood to the process. After completing information on her computer and her file of paper documents she gave us a copy of our petition with the approved seal of uscis for us to keep. She explained me the info about the process of K1 once in the US and asked us to wait until being called for my interview.
After 30min, I was called by my name. A consular officer told me that I will be interviewed and that even if my petitioner could be present he wasn’t being interviewed.
He first took my fingerprints and made me rise the right hand to take an oath.
The questions he asked me was:
When did you meet your fiancé?
Do you know your fiancé’s family?
Did he meet my family?
Did you live in the US?
Did my fiancé live in France before?
Where you going to live in the US?
After writing everything on his computer, he wrote A.P on our file and said that we submitted all the documents needed, that the interview was completed and that we were approved
We should receive my passport back with the visa in 10 to 12 days. It will come with an orange sealed envelope that we mustn’t open until we give it to the border officer when we enter the US.
The overall experience was pleasant because the embassy wasn’t so crowded, 20 people at most.
The staff was professional and nice towards us. The waiting room was big, tall, full of light and warm. The indications, screen and instructions were clear and helpful.
Good luck.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #19076