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| Bangladesh |  Review on February 25, 2010: |
PrincEva
Rating:  | Review Topic: K3 Visa
I am writing this while my wife is on the phone telling me about the whole experience. We hope sharing this will help other people from Bangladesh bring their loved ones here without glitches and delays:
This is what we did days leading up to the interview. I could not join my wife, so she had to go by herself. It helps if your spouse can speak both english and bangla.
Please check and recheck and double check and triple check all paper work with your spouse if you cannot be there to accompany them to the interview. If you can go with your spouse to the interview, make sure all the paperwork copies are there.
Bring a gazillion photos of you guys together and wedding and all other ceremonies.
Bring all records of phone calls (receipts from you buying phone cards, phone bills, calling logs (you can get them if you ask your phone company by calling them up).
Bring all brithday, valentines, anniversary, religious holiday cards and snail mail letters.
Go over copies that you should have sent your spouse of I-130 packet, Affidavit Packet, W2's (send your spouse those), and DS-230 packet (copies of marriage, birth, pcc, etc.).
On the day of the interview:
I woke my wife up at 5:30 am. She lives in Bashundhara, not far from the embassy. She headed out to the embassy at 6:45, and waited in line once she got there at 7:30. There was a lot of people in the line with her. The usual (big crowd, coming for various interviews). Many couples and a few girls by themselves.
After getting in, she talked to a Bangladeshi guy, who questioned her about where I live, when we got married and my address, and asked for her DOB and address and phone numbers as well.
Then she went to the waiting room with a bunch of people to wait her turn. She was in there waiting by 8:30 am.
Then she was called at 10:30 am, and was interviewed by an African American consulate officer who spoke "eloquent" Bangla. He asked, when we got married, what do I do and she replied, my husband teaches, and she asked what does he teach, and she said the courses I teach. And then he asked where I went to school and she told him my college and grad. schools. He then asked if I have any pictures of the honeymoon, and she replied no because we did not go on one. The consulate officer then asked, if she has any pictures of us together, and she said yes, and showed the consulate officer and then he said you are approved.
She said thank you immediately, and then before she got a chance to ask when she will receive the original documents back, the consulate officer said they will give her the originals back when she gets her visa tomorrow.
The embassy then collected her passport and gave her a visa token (which is used if you get a visa, and you go back the next day and trade in your Passport with the visa printed on it).
Things my wife noted:
While my wife was waiting, she made friends with some other girls (2 couples and 2 other single girls whose husband couldn't come with them). She said one of the couple was in additional processing and had to come back after a few weeks and some others who where interviewed were eventually granted, but they were missing paperwork or the consulate officer requested to see more pictures.
The consulate officer in my wife's case barely looked at the picture, and this was because I had sent in a few pictures way back when I sent in the original I-130. They will take a careful look at your pictures if you did not send original pictures as evidence (I sent in 10) when you first applied for your spouse in the I-130.
The overall interview process was "the best experience I've ever had at that place" according to my wife  She's had a BAD experiences with the US embassy in Dhaka trying to attend school here on a student visa 5 years ago.
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