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Bangkok, Thailand | Review on October 24, 2011: | khaopat
Rating: | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
My wife slogged through the rain of Bangkok on October 12 for her IR-1 interview. Although she has siblings not too far away she stayed at a hotel near the embassy.
I don't have a lot of detail about the questions from her interview since they focused on the unique details of our situation. I was proud that she was confident enough to do the interview in English. She also did a good job of packaging her backup document pages and photos so that they could be easily turned to as requested.
The only problem was that her given name on her birth certificate didn't match her name on her ID card/passport. I had warned her about not having documentation of her name change from when she got her first ID as a schoolgirl back in the early 80s. She said, "They don't care." She didn't have it and didn't try to track it down at her hometown amphur office.
After leaving the embassy she called her mother who looked for it, found it and mailed it up to Bangkok the same day. She turned in the original name change document on October 17 and went back a third time to pick up her visa on October 19.
It sounded like she felt comfortable with the CO, who was very encouraging to her that day, stating that they believed her and that the name inconsistency was the only minor problem they had.
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