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| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  Review on December 24, 2008: |
Isaias y Rossi
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
My fiancee and I got to the consulate around 7:00 am. There were about four people ahead of us. They started letting people in around 7:30 checking off names from a list to make sure they had their appointment that day. Once in, we passed throug a security check point and were directed to the second floor where the K1 visa interviews take place.
Once upstairs, there are three steps to the visa interview process.
1) First a lady calls the applicants by order of arrival to ensure that they have all the required documents and that they are place in the correct order. She was friendly and informative. The major issue people had at that point was that they had the wrong police certificates. That is, that they had requested it from the justice department and it was supposed to be from the police department. In our case, we had the right one from the secretaria de seguranca publica. Once the lady reviewed and put all the documents in order, you'll wait to see another consular officer.
2) They call you to a booth and a second consular officer further reviews the documents you have provided. He asks some questions. In my case he asked if I had been to the States in the past and if I had applied for visa before. He only kept some copies of documents and returned the originals. He then put the documents he kept and the forms together with the package they received from USCIS. He said the everything was OK and to wait outside for the cosul to see us. He was polite but very serious.
3) The last step was to see the consul. We were called second to see the consul even thought we were 4th on line because the other people ahead of us were missing documents. Once we got in to see the consul, the interview was not long. He asked me how we met? If I had been to the States before? What countries had I traveled? Then he turned to my fiancee and asked her how did we meet and to tell him our relationship story. After that he said it seems like everything is OK and your visa has been approved. He never ask to see any prove of relationship. He was extremely serious.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #3744