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| Sweden |  Review on July 25, 2019: |
Kat and Savanah
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Had my interview on May 22nd 2019 at 08:20 AM. We went there really early at around 6:45, my wife waited for me in the park that was just behind the embassy. I only brought a folder with my documents and left my phone with my wife and then walked up to the embassy and waited from 7:00, I was the first in line and I think they opened at 8:00. People started arriving a bit before that and then I was the first one who got called up to the window where they first asked me to open my folder and then turn around and show both of my soles. After that I got to go in and go through security which was just like in the airport where you put your stuff in a tray and walk through a scanner.
After I went through, one of the security officers commended me for not bringing anything (like a phone etc) so that made me feel good  He also asked if I spoke swedish and I said yes, so he told me in swedish to follow the yellow line up to the door after I left the first building. The walk was really short up to the bigger building and when I got inside an officer told me to go to window 7. There I was greeted by a swedish lady who was very nice and just asked a few simple questions and told me she would take care of all the paperwork before the "real" interview. She asked me for one passport style photo for the visa and only original documents. I brought copies of everything we had sent in but all she asked for was my original birth certificate (Personbevis), proof (I brought about 12 pictures and some chat logs and she asked for both), and since we had a sponsor she also asked about his tax transcript and if I by any chance also had a copy of his birth certificate, which I had. She also asked for the confirmation page where you have to put in your address online for the embassy, and then she told me she was happy to see me so well prepared
After she gathered those documents I had to sit down for about 20 minutes until I was called up, during that time I could hear some of the questions the others were getting since it was all in the same room. When I came up to the window I was met by a very nice, young blonde woman. She asked me how I was and I said I was good but a little nervous and she said there was nothing to be nervous about with a smile, so that made me feel better. After that she took my fingerprints and asked me some very simple questions like who's the petitioner, how many times have we seen each other, and why I had changed my middle name. It was maybe like 7 or so questions that all kinda blended together and made it into a nice conversation instead of an interrogation. Lastly she said that they had not gotten my medical results yet (and I did these the 13'th so about a week and a half before) and that they couldn't approve my visa until they had that, and there was also a problem with a document I had about a name change I had a few years back that I've described below.
The problem of my name change was that I had the document in Swedish, but the tax office (Skatteverket) wasn't able to send me an english version of this document so I had to translate it. Before we sent it to NVC I translated this document myself and it got accepted and it was no problem. But after the interview the woman who interviewed me said that I had to get that document translated by a certified translator and send it to the embassy. She said it was no problem and that they would print the visa as soon as they had that and my medical results. So they kept my passport and gave me a 221g saying they couldn't issue my visa because of these reasons, but my wife and I went home and got the translation fixed right away and sent it in a few days later, and after less than 2 weeks, the 3'rd of june, we got my passport in the mail with the visa in it, and the sealed packet!
Overall my experience of the US Embassy in Stockholm was very good, I was so nervous but it really was nothing to be nervous about, just make sure you have all the required documents and you'll be fine!
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #26736