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| Peru |  Review on June 30, 2023: |
Erin & Hugo
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
We arrived at 8:30 and stood in line for 20 minutes until moved to K visa line. Fiancé entered with beneficiary showing passport. We organized our documents in the order they said to and were directed towards a long room at the back. We waited for over an hour to be called. At the first window a lady took all of our documents. We waited another hour to be called back up. The man at the second window was somber and mumbled. He never smiled and he denied or sent to administrative processing everyone who came to his window that day. He asked us a few questions about us - How did you meet?, Have you ever lived in another country? Birthday and age etc. He gave us a green slip of paper (221g) saying that we needed to bring the I-864 document for our joint sponsor. He said this was necessary because not very many people have a joint sponsor for K1 visas at the consulate (which isn't true). I had emailed the embassy the day before asking which financial document I should bring, I134 or I864 and they said I134 which is what I understood is required for K1 visas. It was very frustrating. We put all the materials together and brought them back to the processing center across from the embassy that same day. We already had tickets to fly to the US in two days so we were stuck in Lima in temporary housing until they approved the visa. I emailed the embassy two weeks later for an update and they replied only with instructions on how to turn in the materials we brought two weeks ago. At that point I contacted my senators to see if they could do anything. They worked hard to contact the embassy but ultimately got little information and I'm not sure if they helped at all but it made me feel better while stuck waiting. Two more weeks I spent checking for any updates and emailing the embassy until they approved the visa on April 14th. That same day it was ready for pick up and we left for the US one day later. It was a horrible experience. I felt powerless and anxious the whole time, we spent hundreds of dollars getting stuck in Lima and no one could tell us when we could leave or even why we were asked for that additional document that is for AOS.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #32212