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| Guayaquil, Ecuador |  Review on September 28, 2016: |
Jorge and Leonel
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Hi, I just want to share our interview experience. (We are a same sex couple).
Interview date : September 21, 2016 at 7:40am
As the petitioner I decided to go to Ecuador to be at the interview with my fiance. I think that was the best decision I have ever made. the interview was so hard that I was losing my hope.
We got there around 7:00am (we wait until 8 am outside).
I guy came out and ask the beneficiaries name and then he asked (who are yo) I said the petitioner "we are a couple" then he said ok "go to security with this ticket.
The security lady did not say "Hi or Good morning" she goes like "do you have a cell phone) we said YES she said take them back home and come back. I was like WTF we are going to miss our interview if we do that. (before they used to put the cellphone in a lil box and when you finish the interview they return the phone to you). I called friends to see if they were close by. After all (we decide to ask an stranger who was offering his services for passport photos to hold our phones and we will pay him something. at that point I was like I prefer to lose 2 iPhones and not the interview. (so we thrust him - but he was nice he gave us the phones back and we paid him $20 bucks) thank God he was honest.
Inside they asked for the ticket and they let us in into a waiting area (green Chairs)again a security point. Another security lady asked us to take everything out from our pockets and I asked her "should I take the belt off too" and she said very rude "I said things from your pockets" and then she look at the other guy and she said in Spanish "IS MY SPANISH not understandable" she was mad Ecuadorian by the way. I was looking for her name to report her attitude but I completely forgot after all.
We sat and wait for like 45 minutes a very kind Latina Ecuadorian lady called us and she asked for PASSPORT, 1 PASSPORT PHOTO, THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE and MEDICAL EXAM and also a couple questions like ** Where and when we meet, how long we been together, how many times I went there to visit my fiance she asked me to tell the months and years. then she took my fiance's finger prints and she said Please have a seat somebody else will call you so we sat again.
After around 25 minutes a Man called us to a window and he said "I'm going to start with the interview. Note: I was married before(petitioner)and he start asking me question about my last marriage" I was like WTF" I'm here to talk about my fiance and our relationship not about my last relationship. anyway I decide to answer.
Question for Petitioner:
How long have you been married
Where did you meet your ex "smh"
Do you have kids with your ex
Where are you from
Did you get your citizenship through your last marriage
why you get divorce
you and you ex used to live together
is your ex from Ecuador
why do you want to marry him
how long have you been together
when / where did you meet
when did you start your current relationship
how many times have you visit your fiance (explain dates)
why you want to bring him to the US if you can come en visit him
give me a copy of you divorce
where do you work
what do you do for living
why do you want to move to US you can't be with him here? "we said no because of the discrimination that exist".
what kind of discrimination are you talking about? can you explain
have you ever submit a petition for somebody else before
where is you fiance going to live?? "stupid question"
how many years do you have in the US
Question for Fiance
Where and when did you meet
have you ever been in the US
have you traveled to another countries
what do you do for living
where did you work before
how old are you
how old you fiance is
are you single
did you applied for a VISA before? he said YES
why did you put in that application that he was your friend and not your fiance.
why did you lie about it
so you signed the application and you put a lie about your relationship
how many times did you apply for a tourist VISA "3 times in less than a year"
why did you applied so many times for it
how many times your fiance came to visit you
and some more.
At that point I was so Fucking tired of the question that I decide to tell him "listen we can not be here together" I want to marry him and live him him in the USA.
He was like thinking and thinking looking at the pictures once twice
looking at the paper work "he had the originals that I sent to USCIS".
then he said YOUR VISA HAS BEEN APPROVED. HAVE A GOOD DAY
I was like OMG thank GOD this is over
we were so happy.
he gave us back all the original paper work that we send to USCIS.
on Friday September 23, 2016
my fiance received a phone call from the Consulate
they asked him to go back on Monday September 26, 2016
because the system did not save his finger prints and they need
to take the finger prints again in order to print the VISA
finally he went there and everything was OK
now we are waiting for the visa.
For me it was not a good experience starting from security and then brunch of question that he made some of them stupid.!!
but we got approved I hope this experience can help to others if you applied for a VISA before the interview GET READY they will pull out all the old applications to ask you WHY this and that. get ready with an accurate answer.
Good luck..!!!
Sorry about some typo I'm working and doing this at the same time
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