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| Tunisia |  Review on June 17, 2016: |
Babs_Frija
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
My husband arrived for his interview on Thursday May 26 at 9 am, I was hoping to accompany him but since I wasn't on the "list" I couldn't get in.
The interview was pretty standard, the first CO looked at his civil documents (originals with translations) ... He was told his police certificate was expired, but it clearly wasn't (as per the directions on the interview letter he obtained it less than a year before the interview) .. When bringing this to the CO's attention he said to my husband "don't tell me how to do my job" ... Smh
The next CO conducted the interview...
*how did you meet your wife?
*what website did you meet her on?
*what do you talk about?
*where was she born?
*does she have any siblings/ what are their names?
He asked a few more general questions of this nature, looked at our message history and call logs and photographs. Afterwards he gave my husband a pink slip of paper saying to come back in 1 week to pick up his visa...
So, after 1 week, we returned to the embassy only to be told that his visa was not ready yet and not given a specific reason why, and that they would call him when it was ready. This became very frustrating because we did not know how long we were to wait. The next week, I called the embassy everyday trying to get answers with no avail. Also I was checking CEAC ... On June 8th the ceac status changed to ISSUED.
All the time spent waiting was very stressful and the embassy is hard to reach and they are most of the time no help unless you are an American talking to another American ... After being told his visa was printed and ready by 2 different embassy people on the phone, we were told to go to the embassy weds June 15, only to be turned away yet again becuse his port of entry packet wasn't ready yet. At this point I was fuming angry. I called immediately after he came out with no visa in hand yet again, they said to return after two days and it would be ready...
So, third times a charm I guess and on Friday June 17 my husband received his visa and his entrance packet.
I give the embassy 1 out of 5 stars only because my husband actually received his visa, ... Other than that I find they are difficult to deal with and you practically have to harass them to get answers.
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