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| Morocco |  Review on August 30, 2016: |
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Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
IR-1 visa interview
My husband’s visa interview was scheduled for 8am. He arrived at the consulate at 7:30am, but they didn’t let anyone inside the consulate until 8am. The consulate took care of people requesting tourist visas before any other visa types.
(You can’t take a bag into the consulate with you, but if you do bring one with you, there’s a man in a green shirt close to the consulate who will hold your bag for you until you finish your interview and you pay him 2-5dh after your interview is finished and you leave the consulate.)
My husband says you will stay in the consulate for 4 or 5 hours, so make sure you take a book or something (you can’t have any electronics) with you. He printed some Sudoku off the computer and took them with him so he’d have something to keep him busy and take his mind off of things while he waited and he ended up being really happy he did that.
After a few hours, he was called up to a window where a blond Moroccan woman asked him the following questions:
Have you traveled out of Morocco before?
Have you ever been married before?
Has your wife ever been married before?
Do you have any children?
Then she gave him back all of the civil documents I/the petitioner had sent to NVC and took the originals + translations + copies that my husband brought with him. She also gave him back my tax information and the passport pictures I/the petitioner had sent to NVC and didn’t take any of the passport pictures he had brought with him. (I think she had already scanned the ones I/the petitioner had sent to NVC before she called him to the window). She also handed him a paper about laws in the United States and another paper about how to register with Aramex for passport/visa delivery after the interview (She wrote CR-1 on that paper, so now I’m panicking that they’re going to get my husband’s visa category wrong on the printed visa, but we’ll see what happens when he receives it from Aramex). Then she asked him to have a seat and wait to meet with the consular officer for his interview.
He waited about another hour, then was called up to a window for his interview. It was the black woman everyone else on VJ seems to have been getting lately in Casablanca. My husband asked for an Arabic translator because he wanted to be sure he understood her questions well enough to give the proper answers, but the black woman asked him which language he uses to communicate with his wife (English), so she said the interview would be in English, but that he could request the translator at any time if he didn’t understand something. (He ended up doing just fine with English.)
She asked him a lot of questions. These are the ones my husband could remember (not in order):
Did you try to get a visa before?
With the same person?
What happened?
Why did you separate?
When did you separate?
When did you get back together?
How did you contact each other after the separation?
When did you get married?
Where did you meet your wife?
When did you meet your wife?
Did you have a wedding?
When was your wedding?
When was the last time you saw your wife?
Where did you go with each other at that time?
Why did you choose that place?
Why didn’t you meet her again all this time?
Where does your wife work?
What does she do for work?
What will you do when you arrive in the US?
What kind of job do you plan on having in the US?
When she asked him about our wedding, she looked at the pictures I/the petitioner had sent with our I-130 to USCIS. She didn’t take any relationship evidence or photos my husband brought with him. (Front-loading for Casablanca is a MUST!!!) The only thing she gave to my husband was the original marriage certificate he had given to the woman at the first window. She didn’t give him a 221g or any other papers and she did not tell my husband whether he was approved or denied.
My husband left the consulate at 12pm and there were still a lot of people there waiting to be interviewed.
(updated on August 30, 2016)
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #20291