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| Argentina |  Review on February 12, 2009: |
K and R
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
My fiance's interview was scheduled for 2pm. We arrived around 1:30 and they told us we could enter in fifteen minutes, so we waited outside until 1:45 and then they let us in.
There were hardly any other people there the entire time we were there (which was about 2 hours). By the time we left there was only one other person waiting to be seen by a consular officer.
A little after 2pm they called us to window 6 and asked for all of the original documents. We handed them over and they told us to have a seat and wait to be called by our number at window 5. There was only one consular officer doing interviews and there were maybe 4 people ahead of us, so we had to wait approximately two hours. Then they called us (by name, not by the number they had given us) to window five.
The interview went by super fast. It took maybe a total of 10 minutes. The consular officer was very nice and smiling the whole time, which made us feel a little more at ease. She directed questions to both of us, switching back and forth between english and spanish. She asked us things like:
When and were did you first meet?
When was the second time you met?
When was the second time you came to Argentina (to me)?
When and where do you plan to get married?
Then later she asked: do you plan to get married here or in the US? I guess that was a trick question since the K1 means we have to get married in the US and we had already answered that one anyway.
Is my fiance nervous about getting married?
How does his family feel about him leaving Argentina?
What do you do for a living (to my fiance)?
What do I do for a living (to me)?
Will I be providing the sole source of income in the US?
That was about it, then she said "you can both relax, everything looks in order, I just have to make some notes." At which point I starting crying from relief (we have been waiting for this visa for over a year and a half). Then she said congratulations and asked if any of my fiance's family will likely be applying for a tourist visa to visit us. She told us to expect the passport with the visa within 3-5 days.
Then we went outside to the DHL window to pay for the passport delivery.
Throughout all of it she was very nice and friendly.
I agree with others who have said before that the instructions for the packet 3 are unclear and repetitive, but as far as our experience in person goes, it was all very positive.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #3938