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| Nigeria |  Review on September 13, 2006: |
CFO
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
My fiancé arrived at the embassy around 5 AM. There were approximately 10 to 15 people already waiting, but he was able to arrange it to where he was the first person in line. About 6:30, a security officer checked everyone's paperwork and verified it and then issued yellow slips based on the type visa the person was there to receive. Around 7AM an attendant came out and led the line of interviewees into the embassy. After inside, another set of security officers collected the yellow slip of paper after separating K-1 visa applicants to another line. Within 10 minutes a black lady called his number and she asked for his documents and collected them (approval forms, medical, and affidavit of support) and instructed him to go and sit down. Within a few minutes, a white lady called his name and then at a counter while standing she asked his name and she asked my name (fiancée’s name). She asked how we met each other. She asked him about my line of work. She asked where I lived, my favorite foods and how many times I visited Nigeria and the dates. She also asked where he took me during my visits after looking at our pictures. As he was answering the questions, she was writing them down or taking notes. She requested pictures and she collected our emails and read them. She asked my fiancé his profession. She also asked him why he didn't find a Nigeria woman to marry (trying to trip him up). He answered this question from his heart. She then told him to go and sit down. After a few minutes she was typing on the computer and she stepped away. He noticed that she passed off copies of our emails to another white man working there. My fiancé says he was all prayers at this point because the two were going back and forth. Then she went to the printer to collect what she was typing (2 yellow papers). She gave him one of the yellow copies and told him come back on Tuesday. The paper was his approval letter for his K-1 Visa. The lady never uttered with her mouth his visa was granted, but the paper said so. The following week, he returned to pick up his visa. They told him to by 2 PM and he arrived around noon. After waiting a while, a security officer came to lead to line of waiters into the embassy well after 2PM. A number tab was given to each. Over the microphone, they started calling names. When his name was called he went to pick-up passport w/visa and a brown paper package. They asked him to verify the spelling of his name and informed him not to open the brown package to be given the custom officials at the airport in US.
Please be organized when you go to this embassy. Make sure to create multiple copies of everything. I sent my fiancé a big binder with colored and labeled tabs with emails, pictures, written letters, phone bills, calling cards, engagement announcement, financial information, employment verification, Tax Returns. I am thankful this part is over. Now the issue of getting everything here in the states...things I never thought of. Best of luck to everyone going through this. It is definitely worth it for the one you love! 
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