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| Argentina |  Review on March 28, 2009: |
M+J
Rating:  | Review Topic: K3 Visa
My husband and I recently went to our interview at the embassy in Buenos Aires on March 26th 2009. We arrived outside and even though the guards aren't very helpful telling you where you need to go we finally found out which window to go visit to find out where we needed to go. Once we went inside they have an airport security type of thing where you have to put your phone and anything metal inside a plastic box and they put it through the scanner. Once you have done that, they will ask you to walk through a metal detector and then they will give you a number to pick up your items when you are finished with your interview. They will keep your phone, but I guess that is because they don't want you to make calls inside the building for security reasons. You will then walk through a door and up a hill that will lead you to another door and again to another window. That person will tell you to walk over to a desk and take a number. Once you have done that you will walk through another door (yes, another one) and then you will see a lot of seats. You will then wait for them to display your number on a screen. When they display your number you will go to the window and give the person there all your documents. They will check to see if you have everything in order and then ask you to go back and sit down and wait for the consular officer to call you for your interview. We had to wait for about 30-45 minutes before she called our name. First, you have to scan your fingers and once done with that have to take a sworn oath that everything in the documents is correct. Then she started asking questions and going over the documents. She asked about 6-7 questions to both of us. She asked such things as...When was the first time I came here (husband/U.S. citizen)? When did we get married?, When did we file our petition?, What was our wedding date?, How did we meet?, What we did for work?
When she had finished asking us questions she then said that everything looked in order and that we were approved. The woman was very nice throughout the entire interview. Remember to take a glance at the paperwork that the interviewer has as it may ease your mind depending on what it says on it. I saw it, my wife didn't, but it said approved on the top sheet of the paperwork that she was reading. I'm not sure what was approved but that seems like too much of a coincidence to be approved and have our paperwork that says that as well. Anyway, after she said we were approved she told us to go back outside and head over to the DHL window to pay them to deliver her passport. She gave us all our original documents back and only kept her passport because she explained to us that they needed to keep it to apply the visa to it. We then headed outside and went to the DHL window and paid the lady. We didn't have it delivered as it would have taken too long for them to deliver it but instead had the option to pick it up at another DHL location if we wanted. That's what we did because it shaves off a few days of waiting and we already had our plane tickets to the U.S. so the sooner we could get the visa, the better. After it was said and done we had no complaints about the interview, process or interviewer.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #4144