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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on April 30, 2009: |
Amazon
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
I will try to make this as short as possible as I'm sure most people don't read an overly lengthy review.
To start off with my appointment was scheduled for 9:30am and being a very punctual person, I was rather upset that it basically meant nothing at all to have a time set. I was at the consulate at 8:00am, there were noisy protesters outside the consulate shouting and yelling while we were all waiting in line trying to be patient. Once we were let in, 2 at a time, and went through the security check point, we went down stairs to an elevator to get to the 19th floor and the waiting began. My number was not called until after 11:30, after which I was called to a small, booth if you can even call it that, where I was asked for the receipt for the $131 USD for the interview, a copy of a few forms, electronic finger prints were taken and my passport. Then I was sent outside again to the waiting room for .. guess what... more waiting.. then about an hour later, I was called into a tiny room, more like a closet, with a woman sitting behind what I can imagine is bullet proof glass and she again took electronic finger prints, the large Xpress post envelope and then sat there typing, not really saying anything, then the very few questions she asked me were:
"Why did you only meet him once in the 2 years that you have known him? was it financial?" (to which I replied yes). She asked if I "had any pictures of him and I together" and I explained that it was just him and I alone but I did have two pictures of him and I in the exact same spot which was pretty much the same thing and explained the rest were online where friends and family could see them. She asked "was I ready to get married to him." Asked "if we had discussed any marriage plans yet", and "if I knew that we had to get married in 90 days of getting to the states", all the while she is typing in the computer, then she hands me a sheet of paper and said here is a list of what you have to do once you arrive in the states and your papers will be mailed to you and you should have them by next week. Overall, I feel that it was very much an anti-climax to the whole process and that I didn't really need to even be there. But I am glad that it is all over and I will be seeing my sweetheart again very soon and this time for Good !  
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