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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on February 5, 2022: |
WeekendPizzaiolo
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Do not arrive too early as security will only screen you at the time of your appointment. The interview lasted about 1.5-2 minutes, and it was fairly straightforward. The interviewing officer was polite, professional, and efficient. In the end, we were approved.
In exceptional cases, you can pay your K-1 MRV fee on the day of the interview if the fee payment website (ais.us-visainfo.com) is consistently not working. We had a long e-mail back-and-forth with the support team for this website weeks before the interview. They reset our account twice, but each time, we were prompted only for a courier fee but not the MRV fee. In total, we paid for about five envelopes, three before the interview and two on the day of the interview. If you need to pay the MRV fee, it will add another window to your visit. MRV fee payment is payable in cash only, US or Canadian dollars.
At one of the windows, we were given printed instructions to buy a postage paid MEDIUM envelope from CanadaPost (addressed to yourself from yourself) and submit it to security. Shortly after doing this, the consulate called us to tell us that the MEDIUM envelope was too small to fit everything. As it turns out, these printed instructions were for receiving US passports. We had to walk to CanadaPost a second time to buy a second postage-paid LARGE envelope. We were asked to fill out only the TO section (but not FROM), clip a piece of paper with our case number, and then return to the consulate to submit it to security. One security guard stubbornly asserted that only MEDIUM or SMALL envelopes are accepted, FROM must be filled, and no papers can be clipped to the envelope despite being given verbal instructions on the phone to the contrary. This was the only hiccup on the interview day. Other than that, the staff were generally polite and professional.
(updated on February 6, 2022)
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #30716