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| Sydney, Australia |  Review on July 24, 2017: |
ibodi
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Writing this a few months after the fact.
Spent about a year and a half on the documents etc and submitted, then had our interview. All was fine, we flew up to Sydney and we were told during the interview that the only thing we had to do was bring an original copy of one of the documents which we had forgotten and to file a tax return. Did this when we got back, however the tax return we had to wait.
Fast forward to submitting all the documents, we were emailed and told that one of our other forms had expired whilst we were waiting for the tax return, so we had to submit again. Not a problem, we went and re-did it and mailed it through. Then we were emailed again 2 weeks later and told to submit another document as that had also expired earlier in the year. Not sure why it wasn't flagged when the previous email was sent but fine, resubmitted again. Another 2 weeks and we are told our medical had also expired earlier in the year and told to resubmit. Medical is $500 and takes time to complete, meanwhile we are less than a month away from our deadline. I ask if this is everything and tell them to please just flag everything that needs to be sent. In addition, I give them a timeline of what they probably should have told us earlier as it is inefficient and a waste of time to email one thing at a time. However despite this, I manage to get the medical through on time.
THEN, when I thought it was finally all complete, we are told we had to prove we had over US$60K in asset.
What?
Not once was this flagged with us at ANY POINT in the interview or in the various emails sent. Had I known we could have organised it earlier, but I do not have 60K lying around. We had to withdraw our application, wasting thousands of dollars and 2 years. Because we had a tripped planned to the US also, I then had issues with a travel visa later and had to pay even more to have it fixed.
The communication I had with the person/people on the other in the immigration department were unhelpful, rude, condescending and had absolutely no accountability for any of their actions. All my emails were met with a defensive stance and did not acknowledge their mistakes. When we were unsure of certain forms and emailed, we were only referred to documents and links to the site again, which we had already read and was not very clear in some areas.
Unprofessional and rude and only doing the bare minimum and getting paid a lot to not give a hoot, but hey, maybe thats the American Dream.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #22208