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| Sydney, Australia |  Review on July 28, 2010: |
EandR
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
When I got to the MLC centre about 10 minutes before my 8am interview time, I caught the lift up to level 10, the lifts were kind of around the back of the building, but not too hard to find. Once you get out of the lift, there are all sorts of medical offices and stuff that you have to walk past, around what is a surprisingly long corridor. There was no queue at security, so I went up, they made me take my phone out of my bad for screening, and checked my name off on the list. Once I was duly screened, they put my bag in a cubby hole thing, and gave me a card for reclaiming it, and told me to keep my paperwork and my wallet (which I didn't need, but anyway). Then they told me to take a seat in the front row - there were 4 rows of 6 chairs, and I was person number 6, so the last in the front row. There was a DVD playing which I didn't really pay attention to. After a while, at about 8:05 a security guard came and took the 6 of us in the front row to the lift up to the 51st floor. I let the others go in front of me, so I was last person in the lift, and first person out.
On the 51st floor, you take a right out of the lift, and right again. Another security guard asked to see my passport, before letting me into the consulate itself. Once inside, you take a number from the little machine - I was ticket #1, and take a seat. I was too nervous to go and look at the view, which in hindsight, I regret. I was called up to the window after only a minute or so, and the lady had my file in a big pink folder. She took my appointment letter, passport and receipt from Australia Post, and noted that my appointment letter had not said I should bring an express post envelope. I said I had noticed that too and thought it strange, and had brought one just in case: so she took that too. I could see on my file, it said "Approved", but on closer inspection, the date on the stamp was 24 May, which was the date of NOA2. I was told to take a seat again while she checked everything, and after a couple of minutes, the same lady called me up again, to take my finger prints. She then told me to go and take a seat in the next waiting area. I watched her drop my hot pink folder into an in-tray in front of window #6, and after a bit, another guy came and started reading it. He spent maybe 10-15 minutes going through it and taking notes before he called me up.
So then he starts the interview, questions as best as I can remember:
* How did you meet E?
* When did you meet E?
* When did you start talking to E outside of the game?
* Where did E live when you first met him in person? (We met in NY, but he lived in Washington)
* When did you first visit E as part or pursuing your relationship?
* What did E do for work when you visited on that trip?
* Where does E work? What does he do there?
* Have you been married before?
* Has E been married before? When? When did it end? Wait, that's the same year (I explained why that was). Where was E's wife when she died? (He then flicked through the file until he found the death certificate and spent some time reading it).
And with that he said that everything appeared to be in order, and that I was approved. He gave me my birth certificate and police certificate back and handed me two sheets of paper - one which was a "congratulations you're approved" one, which explained what happened from here in terms of them sending me my passport back, and a yellow envelope that I was not to open, and another that explained the K visa was single entry only and I had 90 days to get married after entering the country.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #6402