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| Islamabad, Pakistan |  Review on April 9, 2009: |
dknoon3
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Here is my fiancée’s experience with her K-1 interview in Islamabad on March 27, 2009
You go to the shuttle service place and wait in line for the shuttle. The women have a separate line and the men a separate one. The women's line moves a lot slower. The shuttle costs Rs. 200 for one person. You have to deposit your cell phone before you get on the shuttle. There is no charge for that you also have to deposit your bag, but only if you have a large bag, which she did. If they make you deposit it, make sure you double check that you take all you important belongings out of it like documents and your wallet.
It is about a 10-15 min ride to the embassy. They drop you right outside. Only people who have applied for the visa are allowed to go in at this point. If it is an immigrant case, you do not have to wait too long in the line because there’s usually not a lot of immigrant visa cases. The guard then lets you inside, where you are directed inside a room for finger printing. You must have your interview letter out at this point because the finger print people take it from you. Once the finger printing is done you go wait inside the waiting room with everyone else there are tons of counters over there where you are interviewed. You are first called to pay the immigration fee, and at that point the person asks what language you want to take the interview in. After that you are called again at another window where the person makes you sign one of the forms and you take an oath. After that you have to wait for a few more mins until you are finally called for your interview. During the interview the CO was shuffling through the papers and asked where we met. He continued to shuffle papers and then started looking through the pictures she provided. He thought it was strange that I was a white American yet I had a Pakistani last name. My last name is actually Irish but apparently it is also the same as a family in Karachi (im sure elsewhere in Pakistan as well). He noted that she has a visa waiver in her passport (she was born in scotland so she is a british citizen). He then told her that she could have just come on the visa waiver and gotten married. Everyone we had talked to about this process advised not to go that path, as technically that is illegal and fraudulent. Funny now that we had to wait 8-9 months that the CO tells us we should have just done that. I think he asked her 1 or 2 other questions about what she plans on doing once she arrives in the US for work/school. Then he told her that she can pick up her visa in 7 days. By the time she got to the embassy until the time she left the embassy it took her about an hour and a half.
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