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| South Africa |  Review on September 23, 2020: |
IsItLekker
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Visa interview scheduled for 9:15
At 9:00, everyone began queuing outside of the consulate, the guard will show you where to wait. At 9;15 they began checking that everyone had the correct photographs. Then they checked that everyone was on the list, I was not on the list but after showing them my visa interview invitation they added me onto the system. We waited outside the consulate until called, this took over an hour.
Families with children went first, and then they went according to where you were in the queue. Once entering the consulate you have to hand the guards your phone, they will put it into a lockbox and will give you a number to collect your phone when you are leaving. After that I was led into the visa interview area, and waited until called.
When I was called to the first desk I had to hand over all evidence and civil documents (make sure that your birth certificate and marriage certificate are unabridged). After this I was told to wait for about 30 minutes as the consulate officer reviewed the documents and was then called.
The consulate officer began the interview by swearing me is. She asked me hat my plan was and then confirmed several statements with me. Be careful as I had to correct several statements, I am not sure if this was intentional on her behalf but I suspect that it was. The consulate officer then advised me to fly with Qatar or Emirates (not through Europe) and congratulated me (she was very friendly and polite at this point, despite being very serious at the beginning of the interview) and told me that it would take about 10 days to get my visa.
After a day i logged into the ceac website and saw "administrative processing", this caused a lot of stress but is apparently normal. After 6 days it changed to " issued"
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #28600