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| Bangkok, Thailand |  Review on June 10, 2009: |
David Allen
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Arrived at the BKK embassy early (before the embassy opened at 7am) and waited in line with my fiancee. I had expected that although I wasn't going to be with her during the interview, that I would at least be able to wait with her, inside the embassy.. but was told that I was not going to be allowed to enter my own embassy to wait! Thankfully another American was there with his wife, he knew of a food court/coffee shop accross the street so at least I wasn't left outside in the heat and humidity. Koi (my fiancee) had to wait until after 11am before she was finally seen. Interview was conducted entirely in English, and the questions so vague it was difficult for her to understand what they were asking. Because of this and some of our paperwork was not to their liking they sent her home without a visa and asked for additional evidence of relationship,(I guess it doesn't occur to them that I might speak some Thai) along with the corrected documents and as I work as an independent IT Consultant (well above their financial requirements) wanted my previous 2 years of tax returns. Fair enough, I guess - but the Embassy has not been very responsive with help to figure out exactly what we needed, and are only available to me by email. My fincee has had to make many trips back and forth to finally get an answer to which papers she needed to get for proof of custody of her daughter. The interview was February 24th, it's now early June, and we've FINALLY just got our approval!!!  YAY!
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #4557