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| Honduras |  Review on April 7, 2008: |
AngandKeeb
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
We arrived at 6:15 thinking we would be the first in line. . . we were wrong, there were a ton of tourist visas and some permanent visa people waiting already. We were separated, the top line was tourist visas and the bottom line was the permanent visas. They started taking tourist visas in through security and halfway through they called us up and checked us off of a list. We then realized that we were next-to-last on the list.
We were hoping that being there in line first that we would be first for pre-interview but we were called in the exact order of the list.
We were the only K1 visa scheduled for that day. And, in fact, there was only about 9 permanent visas scheduled for that day so we were done by 1130.
Okay here are the specifics that I remember:
You are seated in the front row of chairs the windows are numbered 1-5 (the first 4 are for pre-interview and the last is the consulate)
When we were called up to the window (she asked us to take everything out of our accordian file) She asked us for each thing specifically. She was very friendly and conversational, which made us both less nervous.
She asked my fiancee a few questions (how did we meet, did any one of us have kids, where we met, had he been to the states) took our paperwork and organized it with a few of her sheets that she was writing on then asked us to pay the $131 to the cashier and wait for our name to be called.
We waited about an hour and half.
Then we were finally called back about to window 5. The consul was sitting behind a glass window. The poor thing had to carry the 9 lbs of proof we brought with us to his desk. He asked Kevin Spanish or English -- Kevin said whichever you think is best, he said mix to ensure that I would understand what was going on.
He asked all the same questions the pre-interview lady asked us but Kevin was allowed to give more detail. I wasn't asked anything but I interjected in English a couple of times just to include my little piece of our story. I think he was shocked because they were talking in Spanish and I knew what was going on.
He was very nice. Told me I would break AT and T if we continued talking as much as we did and that they had no place to keep our stuff and gave it all back to us (except the paperwork).
He also told us we would have to get married in the states and that Kevin would have to live with me.
He asked if we had a date and we said no. I said I have the dress so everything else is fine. He said he saw the picture and it was very pretty. He got out a little white card and said you can come back Monday, Tuesday or even Wednesday to pick up the visa.
We then asked if we were approved and he said yes!!
I yelled and we hugged and kissed and thanked him a million times,he told we were done and congratulations.
We actually had a nice time at the embassy, the people were really nice and we saw a few people that my fiancee knew. We took word searches and a book.
One thing that we loved was that the vending machines took American money, we were able to get some much needed caffeine because I had some change on me.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #2700