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|  Review on January 31, 2008: |
GVB
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
My fiancee arrived early in the morning and waited in line. It was well below freezing outside and she was sick with a fever. They still made her wait outside, but that was to be expected.
It was January 10, just after the Christmas holiday for Ukrainians. The embassy had been closed the prior weekend and the website was not up and running. Some policies changed on January 1 so the instructions that they sent her were no longer current. We did not know if the new policy would affect us or not and we had no way of finding out because the website was down for days and nobody was at the Embassy to answer questions before she left for Kiev.
People stand outside the embassy dressed like embassy officials. They ask to see your papers and then they tell you that things are no longer correct because of policy change and they tell you to go "around the corner" and pay money so someone can fix your papers. This is a scam of course and the US Embassy does nothing about it. Everyone is scared so they fall victim to this scam.
The first embassy workers she encountered were cold and rude, but the man who actually did the interview was very nice to her. That was the only good experience. Also, they said it would take 10 days for less for them to ship the passport with visa but she actually received it 2 weeks later. Several days overdue.
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