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|  Review on August 15, 2011: |
T & N
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
One word - easy and professional! For all of you who will be going to the US embassy in Skopje, first let me tell you that you have nothing to be afraid of.
With our embassy, all the forms will arrive in your mailbox together, and simply fill them in, do the medical exam at Remedika and wait for that special day.
When that special day arrives - dont freak out, cause there is honestly nothing scary in the whole process. Go there (at the embassy) 15 min prior to your scheduled date and wait until they call your name (they have a list and usually it goes alphabetically). Inside, its the normal security check up - turn off ur cell and hand it over to the guard, (together with any other el. devices u may have).
Then you go to the other building and there when you enter, they show you where to stand, where a guy does a preliminary check up on all your documents. He looks if they are all filled in, and if they are not - dont worry, he fills them in for you or he gives you time and space to do it urself. He will look into the DS 230 part one, DS 156/156k/157, birth certificate, police certificate, court certificate and I - 134 with supporting evidence. Also, dont forget the two passport size photos you must carry with you for the interview.
Once he does the check up, he returns the documents and the passport, and he tells you to sit and wait for ur name to be called out. After a while they call you out to hand over the documents which were checked, and a guy there (he was macedonian) goes over every form, attaches your photos and tells you to go and do the payment of the fee - k1 = 350$, and return again at the same counter. He looked at all the documents i handed and after he was done, he said "i need you to show me some proof of ur relationship", and i handed out our pictures and our emails.
He took them all in and told me to wait, until i am called once more. They called me in for finger prints and after that, back to waiting again.
When i was called for the last time, it was by the interviewer and it was an older lady. She was very pleasant and very calm. She first gave me a form to sign and then she asked routine questions:
-where have you met your fiance(e)?
-when did you first meet in person?
-how long did he stay?
-have you been to the us?
-did you meet while u were there?
-any family in the US?
-what does your fiance work?
and that was it .... she didnt re-ask anything or added anything, she just wanted straight and simple answers, without long stories, and i honestly loved it the way she was handling the interview.
After that, she told me im approved :-)
So there you go ... after all the stress and sleepless nights, i had only to answer 5-6 simple questions, without anyone questioning why or what or who or when....
ITs simple, its not scary at all, so for the future applicants --dont be afraid, make sure you bring the necessary documents and you will simply fly through.
PS: Other applicants said that they didnt take in their supporting affidavit evidence, pictures and emails.... well, they took everything i gave, and they didnt give anything back so, i guess it depends :-)
I hope this will help to ease the stress, and lower the fear.
For the applicants from Kosovo -- dont be afraid cause they have a person who speaks Albanian and he/she will help to those who dont know macedonian or english.
Cheer up - its an easy one!!!
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