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| Taipei, Taiwan |  Review on October 5, 2018: |
Joschka
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Arrived 30 minutes early and was admitted. I left my phone with my husband who was waiting at a nearby coffee shop. Inside I discovered that everyone else who was there for a visa interview had brought their phone with them. Apparently I could have too.
The interview took about an hour and was relatively easy. Even though we had paid to have New Hampshire review our i-864, Taipei insisted on doing their own review. They did not tell me immediately that the i-864 was or was not approved. They only said my visa would be delivered in three days.
All of the instructions said I should bring many original documents and a copy of each for the Consular Office to keep. Instead, they held back several original documents, including some of my health exam documents. But everything was returned to me with my passport and visa. I wasted a LOT of paper making copies that they did not want. (I wasted a lot of time too.)
The gave me a form with a URL where I need to pay the immigrant processing fee. The URL on the form was wrong and I had to do some searching to get to the site. As seems normal, the site did not know about me yet, so I have to wait some more before I can pay. There is really no hurry about this as we won't be departing Taiwan for about two and a half months.
My Visa WAS DELIVERED just a few hours ago.
I am SO SO glad this ordeal is OVER! Thank you Visa Journey for your help and your reassurance through this mess.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #24790