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| Dominican Republic |  Review on January 16, 2020: |
JLRamos
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Our appointment was for 7am, we arrived at the embassy at around 5:30 and there were a lot of people already.
For the immigrant applicants, there are two rows, we were told by the other applicants that one was for 7am and the other was for 8am, this turned out to be false when I asked one of the officials in the building so I got in the shortest line. There’s a lot of misinformation being spread between the applicants so make sure you go ask somebody actually working there.
I’m assuming by 6-6:30 (we didn’t have the time since we can’t have our phones), they started letting people in, and as expected, they took people from both rows equally regardless of their appointment time or what line they were in.
We were one of the first ones to enter the building and got the ticket 011 after I (the beneficiary) was asked for my birth certificate, police certificate, and other papers y’all should know about. (We had no affidavit of support but this was not required for our specific case, more on that later).
When we were asked to sit and wait for our interview, we thought we’d be called in order, but they call the numbers randomly, we were 011 and they called as far as 085 while we were still sitting (jumping several numbers, of course). That was a little bit of a frustrating experience but we got to see how the other interviews were handled before ours.
Some people were asked for Affidavit of Support, from what we noticed, it was mostly people attending the interview with kids, some interviews were long and others as short as one single question.
Every case differs greatly from the other, so just focus on your specific case and don’t get too excited/scared with other people’s results.
For our interview, the consul was very nice and asked a few simple questions regarding how we met, when we started dating, how many times my fiancé visited me in Santo Domingo, he asked if I have family in the USA (which I do), asked who took the first step, and even asked what our favorite food is (asked me about his and vise-versa).
We were not asked for any papers during the actual interview, he had our entire packet next to him while interviewing us; but like I said, every case is different and we did see people being asked for papers during the interview. We also took the precaution of having the papers with us (the ones about the bona fide relationship).
It took him a little to give us an answer while he edited some notes, he told us there was nothing to worry about, and after a while of awkward silence, he told us our visa was approved and congratulated himself too because it was the first K1 visa that he approved.
We were out of the building before 9:30am.
Overall a very pleasant experience, a little frustrating only while we were waiting to get into the building and to be called for the interview.
(updated on January 23, 2020)
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #27811