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| Bangkok, Thailand |  Review on September 8, 2016: |
NDB052714
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Hi marks to the Embassy staff for efficiency. Everything went much faster and smoother than we expected.
Here are the details from Noom's embassy inteview on 07 September 2016.
After he cleared the security check upon entering the building (metal detector, wanding, bag search, checking his mobile phone) he was told to go to Zone B for K1 Visa. When he got to the window, a Thai lady asked him for his documents; he had all of our evidence of relationship in a 3 ring binder, and he had to take everything out of the binder before she would take it. Then he was finger printed. Then she gave him a number (#4) and told him he could be seated. After just a few minutes a different Thai lady called him up and returned duplicate documents he had submitted that they said they didn't need. Basically what he submitted for Packet 3 and Packet 4 were exactly the same documents (only difference originals instead of copies or vice versa) + Packet 4 was medical documents and evidence of relationship. That lady then asked him 5 questions:
1. When did you meet your fiance?
2. How did you meet your fiance?
3. How old is your fiance?
4. When was the last time your fiance was here?
5. What work do you (Noom) do?
Then she told him he could go into the interview waiting room, which was air conditioned. He figured he was number 4 and had time, so he took a couple of minutes to go to the rest room. When he came out of the rest room they were calling his number and said to go to window 5.
When he got to window 5 an Asian man (Noom thought maybe Chinese) greeted him. He asked Noom if he spoke English or Thai...Noom responded that he speaks both. The man asked if he preferred to have the interview in English or Thai? Noom said English but if there was some question he didn't understand then he would ask in Thai.
The man then confirmed Noom's name. And then administered the oath (do you promise to tell the truth etc etc etc). And then he asked 13 questions:
1. When did you meet your fiance?
2. How did you meet your fiance?
3. What is your fiance's name?
4. How old is your fiance?
5. How old are you?
6. What work does your fiance do?
7. Is your fiance here in Bangkok with you now?
8. Has your fiance met your family? Why not? <>
9. Have you met your fiance's family? <>
10. Does your fiance have brothers or sisters? <>
11. Why haven't you ever been to visit your fiance in America? <>
12. How did you become engaged? <>
13. Where do you plan to get married?
Noom said the entire exchange took less than 3 minutes. Then the man said your visa is approved. Noom asked what he needed to do next? The man said he could go home now and wait for his passport with the visa to be mailed to him at home. The man said Noom could expect to receive his passport within about 10 days.
And so Noom left.
Noom FaceTimed me @ 8:20...where are you? I told him I was at Starbucks on the corner. He said I'll walk to you now. But he didn't smile; he was expressionless. I figured...uh oh, we forgot something important or they've found a problem and sent him away to come back another day. I thought...my gosh it is too soon! He we cleared security at about 7:00 and was done by 8:20...I couldn't believe it was good news after such a short wait. I figured it would be at least 10, maybe 11 before he would come out.
When he came into Starbucks he had a blank look on his face...absolutely no expression. I said what happened! Tell me! He started smiling...the biggest happiest smile I had ever seen. He said the man told him his visa was approved. He said the interview was very easy and nothing difficult. He did say one lady did not get approved and he felt very sad for her...but the lady said she didn't know why they didn't approve her.
So that's it...the rest of the day has been spent relaxing and re-living it all, every detail over and over. And laughing and talking about our life together in America.
The plan is I fly back to the states tomorrow evening...then return on September 22. Then we will fly together to America on October 3.
~David & Noom
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #20348