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| Guangzhou, China |  Review on April 27, 2010: |
Tim_Yanan
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
I could not attend the interview because of a work conference in US that could not be rescheduled. I flew to Dalian to help Yanan obtain the final documents and the heath examination/vaccinations in Beijing the week before the interview and had to fly back four days before the interview date. My fiancé Yanan arrived at the Guangzhou Consultant office early at 5:30 AM on the interview day and was the 7th person in line. Most of the people arrived about 6 AM. When the doors opened, there were about 180 plus waiting and only about 30 were the k-1, k-3, CR-1 Visa interviews. The majority were for tourist, student, business, and family visas. When the doors were open they check everyone’s passports, then she walked to the 5th floor where she gave them the all the required documents (passport, K-156, K-157, I-230, and I-134, medical records, my four years of 1040 tax returns, bank statements, etc.) All cell phone, cameras, shoes or any devices had to be scanned like that screening at the airport security by TSA. We had prepared our documents in an organized fashion with index tabs, cover sheets, to make it easy for them to review. Then she was given a number and she was called up for finger printing then returned to her seat. Then all of interviewees were asked to stand and swear that all the documents provided were true and correct.
Yanan was lucky to get #1004 and was the seventh person interviewed by one of the three US Consultant officers doing the K-1, K-2, and CR-1 Visa interviews. The interviewer an American man about 40 something years old. He was a nice person who asked her about 10 questions. The first interviews started at 9:30 AM and Yanan turn started at about 9:40 AM and lasted about 7 or 8 minutes. He first asked if she spoke English and she told him yes, that she was studying English, and that I spoke a little Mandarin. Yanan was not nervous and prepared well for the interview. The questions asked were primarily about me, such as where I lived, my employer, about when I got divorced, but Yanan corrected him that my wife passed away last years after her long battle with cancer. I guess he was testing her if she knew me well and the information provided on the I-129, G-325a, and I-134 forms. When she continued to explain more, he stopped her and said that was Okay, Okay, enough, and moved on to the next questions. The consultant officer questions were done in Mandarin. At the end of the interview, he told her congratulation and good luck then gave her the pink form. She was directed to the next room to pay a fee for them to mailing the approved K-1 Visa packet. She made arrangements to pick the packet up in two days from the Guangzhou post office on Friday. We had planned for this and I booked a hotel room for Yanan and her mom to return to Dalian on Saturday.
She and her mom went to the Guangzhou post office on Friday morning. No luck, the EMS packet did not arrive. The next day, Saturday they when to the post office again and no packet arrived. Now we started to worry, because hotel arrangements were only to Saturday. Yanan met another Chinese gal who picked up her Visa on Saturday. She had her interview on Monday 4/19 and had to wait five days for the Visa packet to be completed and sent to the post office. She provide Yanan with a phone number at the Guangzhou post office to call ahead to confirm if your approved Visa packet arrived. Yanan extended her hotel for another three nights and called the airlines about changing her return flights. Monday night she made the call to the Guangzhou post office…..Oh yes!!….the man told her that an EMS packet from the US Counsulate arrived and she could pick it up on Tuesday morning on 4/27. Screams of joy erupted in Guangzhou and in Waipahu, HI. Tuesday morning Yanan pickup the Visa Packet. The K-1 Visa is placed into her China Passport.
My suggestion and advice to you all on our experience:
1. Organize and make all the supporting documents easy for the US Immigration office, NVC, US Consultant Office them review and you should not get any delays. It is like preparing documentation for reviewer to for a tax audit. Verify and support the information you entered on all the various applications and be since at the interview.
2. Have your fiancé study and understand everything about you, which should have been done while you each dated or corresponded. The key information and data are on your various application and petition forms.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #5972