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| Bogota, Colombia |  Review on September 10, 2019: |
DylanandLaura
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
We had an appointment at 9:00 and arrived at 7:30. As others have said there are a lot of people there for tourist visa and they stand outside the embassy. You don't need to wait with the tourist visa applicants, you can walk right up to the visa entrance and show them the passport with the immigrant visa sticker and they will usher you to line 3. They will let you right in to the first check point where an embassy worker will review your original registro de nacimento, registro de matrimonio, police report, 2 passport style photos and your spouses birth certificate (if they attend the interview). After the Embassy worker checks the documents, you need to proceed through security screening similar to an airport. After security, you enter the immigrant visa line which is different than the non immigrant visa line and they will again check your documents to make sure you have everything and you need to wait for a consular officer to call you, who then scans your original documents.
After they scan the documents you are given a number which will be called for your interview. The interview lasted about 5-10 minutes and the consular officer asked for my wife's passport and documents. Then the CO asked some basic question about who she was, who I was, what I did for work, how we met. She asked what the name of my employer was (I am self employed) and also about my family member who filed an I-864A. Just basic stuff such as where I live in the US, about my family member sponsor and about our newborn child. The consular officer was really nice because my wife has just given birth 5 days before via c -section and was experiencing a lot of pain and didn't ask us for pictures, documents or anything. She said the visa was approved and handed her the domestic violence package and approval letter, while reminding us to register our baby's birth with the embassy before we travel. The consular officer never asked to speak to me (petitioner).
From entering the embassy to the actual interview was about 2 hours, it is a little cold in Bogota so I suggest a light jacket. I checked CEAC a few hours later and it said "Issued".
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #27033