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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |  Review on January 22, 2017: |
Cesar & Duong
Rating:  | Review Topic: General Review
My fiancee Duong and I had our visa interview on Friday January 13th. We arrived at the US Consulate around 07:30am. We went through several check points. The first one was a pat down outside the door before you enter. Then they told us to form a line an fill out a white sheet with our information where to send the passport with the visa if interview is aproved. We waited there about 15 minutes or so. Then we went through metal detectors and had to leave our phones there. They give you wooden claim numbers to get your mobile phones back. After we went through the metal detectors they told my fiancee Duong to go to a desk so they can check her appointment letter and other documents. After she did this then they ask her to form a line to get her fingerprints taken. We spent about 1 to 2 hours doing this process. Once they gave Duong a number it took them about 1.5 hours to call up our number. Windows 11-18 there are for interviews. They called Duong and I to window 16. Once we got there there was a white Consulate Officer with glasses and a Vietnamese translator there next to him. He asked me the following questions: 1) How did you meet your fiancee? I told him her cousin in the US introduced me to her. 2) How do you know her cousin? I answered that she is the owner of a nails salon shop near where I live and that I go there to get a haircut. 3) What hotel are you staying at sir? I told him the Imperial Hotel in District 5. 4) When did you come to Vietnam? I told him on January 11th. Then he asked me to have a sit and wait until he and the translator finished interviewing my fiancee Duong. After I sat down this officer Tony and the translator proceeded to interview Duong. They ask her questions about how we met, why I only came to Vietnam in our almost four year relationship. Through this process it seemed the translator was coaching officer Tony on what to ask. The two of them were not satisfied with Duong's responses and gave her a blue sheet indicating that they needed more information from us and to come back with this so they can review our case again. Immediately after they gave the blue sheet to Duong I went straight to Window 16 and talked to Officer Tony and told him that some of the items being requested were already submitted and were not looked at during the interview. He told me that there were several red flags in our petition that needed to be addressed before a decision could be made. I told him that these red flags will be addressed and that I was not going to jeopardize my employment and enter into a relationship that was not true. He told me that he is on my side and that he will look at all evidence that will be submitted later. We spent a total of four hours in the US Consulate.Since I am not due back to the US until January 24th after this happened I hired a professional local company to assist me in preparing the documents they requested in the blue sheet. It took them about 3 days to get this information together. After one week later Duong and I came back to the US Consulate with all of the required paperwork. We were there a total of 4 hours again. Finally on Friday January 20th about 3:35pm at last they called Duong and I to Window 18 and told us that after they looked at the requested evidence they decidediced to give Duong a visa. We were relieved and happy about this. I suggest to anyone who has an upcoming interview at this Consulate to be very prepared. Otherwise you will go through the same experience Duong and I just did.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #21230