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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on March 30, 2010: |
Kimbear
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
We left the hotel around 6:10 got to the consulate at 6:20 ish. A few ppl showed up shortly thereafter. One of the vjers we met was stef loves bran. Was a wee bit cold -10. The hotel was soo close like not even 5 mins to walk.
They opened the doors around 7:30ish, i had no watch or anyway to tell the time until we got upstairs. Someone didn't put the letters back so they had to hand scribble the letters on pieces of scrap paper..lol. I joked about how it looked like a Monday and the guards kinda laughed and joked back. They were nice and friendly. Went through security then downstairs to the elevator.
Guard came shortly after to take a-e up. Once upstairs we were told to sit on one side of the room. I figured at least 3 ppl in that elevator were vj'ers..as we were the only ones facing the right way LOL. It was 8am at this point. A few minutes later we got called to window 11, David was given a paper to go pay the 131$usd, and come back. The lady at window 11 was super nice.
She asked me for passport and copy, birth certificate and copy, medical, police cert, letter of intent, i 134 and evidence. Pictures, and envelope. I went to give her the pic from the online ds-160 form and she said she didn't need it even though i did the form without uploading it. She asked me to make sure my info was still correct, all i had to change was phone number. David gave her the receipt from paying the fee.
Went and sat down for another maybe 10 mins. She called me back up, did the fingerprinting, went and sat down again. Was maybe 8:30 by this time. Around 15 mins later we were called to room 8 to see the co.
He had us swear to tell the truth, asked how we met, when we met in person, when we decided to get married, who proposed to who, where david worked and what he did. If he had any siblings etc. Asked if i had any issues with police, or border, to which i replied about my border refusal in 2008. explained why i was turned around and how scary it was being fingerprinted, photographed etc. he apologized and said thats not how they purposely treat their CDN neighbours, but that the cbp do have a job to do to which i said i understand this etc. and if i knew then what i know now..well  Asked if we had gone back and forth to visit each other and when my last trip was.
Then he took my fingerprint, and said Congratulations, and handed me the K1 FAQ letter. I clapped my hands did a little jump in the air and said "yay!" along with ty ty ty He said the visa would be mailed out WED and hopefully since i had the priority next am envelope i might get it thursday, if not Monday.
all in all it took an hour and we were out of there by 9am. and finished eating breakfast by 20 after at the hotel
We were literally with the CO about a grand total of 5-10 mins if that long even! I know ppl have said this before but until you go through it..you really do not realize how simple easy fast and painless the actual interview is..
Thank you so much for all your help. I really could not have stayed sane. 381 days and i finally have my k1 approval. soon as i get my passport, i'm leaving the same day for Chicago, and will post my poe review then. As for right now. I'm going to go snuggle next to my sleeping exhausted fiance who drove from chicago to montreal for me.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #5856