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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |  Review on November 22, 2020: |
CxP
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Her appointment time was at 7:30 AM on a Monday. She arrived at 7:00 AM and no one was queuing. It seemed everyone was hanging out at a nearby cafe that had stool seats outside. At 7:20 AM, people were allowed to queue at the consulate. She ended up behind 50 people since she went to another cafe for quick breakfast. But it didn't seem to matter since people were being called up to windows seemingly randomly.
First she had to get a "pre-interview" with one of the Vietnamese speaking staff, who checked if she had some of her original documents that she was required to bring like household registration, passport, police certificate, birth certificates, etc.
She said that there were several people who looked sad after leaving the windows, and she saw some folks get blue slips.
My wife brought a bunch of documents including copies of chat logs, photos of us together and at our wedding, emails, credit card and bank statements and receipts showing transactions of me paying for flights and hotels, affidavits, my W-2s, pay stubs, employer letter, tax transcripts, etc. The interviewer didn't look at most of these documents.
When she was called up, the interviewer asked my spouse if she was comfortable speaking in English, and my wife confirmed that she was. There was a Vietnamese translator but she just sat off to the side since my wife didn't need translating. She was asked the following questions:
1) Did she have kids?
2) Was she married previously?
3) What was her job?
4) Where did I propose?
5) How did we meet?
6) Asked to see wedding photos?
7) Asked if she ever applied for US visa before?
My wife also read that some people who originally submitted I-864EZ during the NVC stage were asked to fill out and submit an I-864 instead. So we did that on Friday, three days before her interview, submitted the form on NVC CEAC website and printed a hard copy. My wife informed the interviewer that we uploaded it to NVC, but the interviewer and another staff member could not locate the file. Nonetheless the interviewer was satisfied that we brought a hard copy of the I-864, and said they would scan and upload it at the consulate.
He took my wife's passport, police record, I-864, and my birth certificate and said that they were granting her a visa. She didn't get any document in return but has been tracking her visa online. It was officially issued on Tuesday and delivery was the following Monday.
Overall, my wife's experience was pleasant except for the queuing part. She said the interviewer was professional and nice.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #28817