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| South Africa |  Review on December 11, 2007: |
amper
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Entrance to the Consulate is via a side door in wall directly opposite the Killarney Mall.
I got there at 7.30 for my 9.00am appointment. there were already queues there. Takes quite a while to get in as you are in the same queue as the ordinary visa four tourist and business visa's.
Next to the door is a window where you have to hand the person behind the counter your passport, appointment letter, visa photo and the FNB deposit slip for the $100 for the visa. I received a different number from the other people and was told to go to counter 7 when I entered and press the bell.
Then you go through security and they put all the docs etc thru the machine and you leave your cell phone with them. Then you are scanned as well with a hand held scanner.
I went to counter 7 the blind was down so I rang the bell and waited. After a while the blind went up and there was my case worker.
He asked me for appointment letter and FNB slip.
He went off somewhere and came back with a folder which I assume was mine! He then asked me for my documents, that are on the OF169, one by one. He stapled and them and asked me a few simple questions like do I like cricket, if my fiance had been back to India and who he worked for.
Then he told me to go and sit down and I will be called. So I sat and sat and sat for nearly an hour.
Then my name was called over the intercom to go to window 8 and the interviewer was an American lady and the interview was conducted at the window, no privacy!
I was asked to hold up my right hand and swore that to the best of my knowledge everything in the docs were true and correct and that I would marry my fiance with 90 days of entering the USA.
Then she asked me how we met in detail (she typed all this onto the pc) where he was born, what he did and how many times I had been in the USA. She said Wow you were in the states for almost a year! 
She asked to see the photographs and asked who the people were in them.
She was extremely nice, put me at ease and we exchanged a few stories about tortoises and squirrells which had everyone laughing. (my caseworker was standing behind her whilst she was doing interview)
She then said we are going to approve you visa )))))))))))))))))))))))
Go to DHL and pay them R60 and the passport with the visa and packet will be delivered to you within a week.
The interview was less than 5 mins.
Consulate was really amazing and very professional
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #2249