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| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  Review on May 13, 2008: |
Precious
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Long wait, folks, long wait.
I arrived at the Rio Consulate around 7:20am, to find a queue of about 10 people in front of me. Nothing scary, really. A guy came, checked our names and, around 8:00am, we were in. We were then directed to the second floor where there was a guy handing over a list showing the order they wanted the docs to be hand over, and there was when the long wait began 
Apparently they do call in first the ones with incomplete paper work or missing information. As I’m a proud doc-assembler, my case was in order, nothing missing, but I got in for my interview only at 12:20am. You do the math.
The consul was a no-smiles lady, and she seemed to be more interested in my previous L-2 visa (from almost 10 years ago!) than in my current case.
She did ask when was the last time we’d seen each other and wanted to see some pictures. She was also interested to know from where my fiancé ex-wife was from (luckily I knew that piece of useless information) and then she wanted to know if my fiancé traveled a lot for his job. I said yes, as he gets short assignments to work in different parts of the world.
She was polite, but not very friendly. She then said that the visa was approved (Thank you LORD!  ) and that she was going to cancel my current B2 visa.
Overall it went fine, apart from the long wait and the fact that my past was much more interesting to her than my future.
My visa will arrive by mail, with the mysterious brown envelop that I should NOT open whatsoever, in 2/3 days.
So, there is nothing to worry if you have everything in order and is telling the truth, nothing but the truth.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #2863