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| Moscow, Russia |  Review on October 15, 2011: |
David and Elena
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Elena and son Ilya arrived early and were number 5 waiting for the interview. When called the interviewer began speaking in English. Elena explained that she wished Russian. The female interviewer switched to Russian, and asked a few questions about our meeting and past, and then about 4 minutes into the interview switched back to English for no apparent reason. The interviewer never asked to see the numerous photos (entire photo album) or emails or telephone records that Elena had meticulously prepared. Then abruptly Elena was handed the Yellow 221g form and amazingly this asked for more photos, emails and so forth. The "and so forth" was particularly disturbing. What does that mean? The 221g itself has another case number on the top which was hand scratched out and then hand written in our case number! Long story short, I used the paid telephone line a total of fours times to gain clarification. Five days after the interview, Elena did back to back 18 hour train trips to hand deliver the 221g requirements. I found out that the American petitioner can wrote the cover letter so I wrote a very detailed letter explaining every 221g submission. The following day, late in the afternoon, Elena received an sms that said. "Passport", ready for pickup. Nothing about "approved" or otherwise. So next morning 4AM I am back on the paid telephone service and asked if indeed the Visa had been approved. They didn't know and told me to call back three hours later. (Note: the people on the paid service line were quite friendly and professional) So asked the key question and that was, "was the Visa approved?" Called back and they reported that all documents had been received in order and the Visa approved and shipped. My rating will be for the interview itself and the unnecessary document requests made and not even looking or asking what "proof of ongoing relationship" documents my fiance had with her, which were more than the woman that had been interviewed before her had! Then Elena having to take back to back 18 hour train trips to comply! javascript:emoticon(' ')
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #8507