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| London, United Kingdom |  Review on May 24, 2006: |
M.
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Interview was surprisingly painless -- I got to the embassy at 9.45am
and didn't get in until 11.20 or so (my interview time was 10.30, and
there were huge queues for the 10am ones when I got there. Luckily they
separated them out into two different queues, with the pre-10 ones in
one line and then when they were done with the 10.30 ones in a new line;
I was near the front of that. I was worried I wouldn't get out in time
to catch my 2.05 train, but it looks like they fast-track the immigrant
visas -- there were only a handful of those compared to the hundreds of
nonimmigrant ones.
Giving all the information to the guy when I first went up was far worse
than the actual interview, since I kept having to explain why I was
giving him bundles of paper and sorting out the bits I had to give him
from the entire tree of papers I had with me. It didn't help that the
guy had someone else observing him while he was working, so he'd keep
turning around and talking to him when I was trying to explain things.
But anyway, the guy being supervised on that one was the supervisor on
the woman that interviewed me (different one from last time) and she
just asked me a few questions about how we met, how long after we met
online before we met in person, how long after that before I went to see
you, etc, etc. Nothing that seemed like a trick question, so I just
answered everything honestly. I am good at talking about you anyway. At
the end of the interview she asked me if the previous visa attempt had
been a ruse just to get us to be together rather than primarily for me
to study, so I figured honesty was the best policy and told her it was.
She did a very 'you silly people' look and said 'Now don't you see it
was better to do things the right way?' like a teacher telling off a
child in a very kindly way. I laughed and said that yes, everything
worked out for the best. And then I just had to sign off on things and
take my SMS fee to be paid, which I did. I also have my chest x-ray that
I have to take in my carry-on when I come back over to give them at
immigration.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #596