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| Peru |  Review on February 2, 2012: |
sctdixon
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
DCF - Submitting the I-130 Petition for Alien Relative at the Lima Peru Embassy
Today was the day to submit the petition. I will give the details so others may find it beneficial.
The USCIS window is only open from 9-11am on Tuesday & Thursday. We arrived at 9am to find a line waiting outside at the security entrance. The security guard there acted like he was God and ordered everyone around. Stand here, move there, wait here, etc....
My wife and I went through security and went to the elusive service window. The next "know it all" security guard gave us a numbered card and asked why we were there. My wife spoke to him in Spanish saying we were there to submit the I-130 petition. He said "we should do it in the Us as it will be much quicker". Really?? This security guard thinks he knows anything about immigration to the US and we haven't done our homework at all?? I was not amused. So we ignored him and sat and waited for our turn. When we were called up to the window, the lady was polite and asked me if "have I been to this window before?". I responded "no" then she started to lecture me that I should have come here first so I would know what I neede to know. She obviously didn't know that I frequent this forum and that I actually emailed the embassy and asked for the specific requirements. As she was talking, I pulled out the email they (she) sent me and showed it to her. She then realized that I was orepared and asked for my package I prepared. She was impressed on how organized it was with all my dividers and decsription tabs. she said I must be an engineer (I am) because engineers always are so obsessed with things being organized (haha). So we had everything she needed and she sorted through everything. She returned to us all the dividers, the personal photos (only kept the wedding photos) and the G-1145 Form (said that was for US filing only). We then were asked to go pay the $420 fee at the cashiers window #14 in the building next door and return with both receipts. We went to that building and asked another brilliant security guard standing in a doorway where window #14 was as we could not get into the building. He stated he didn't know so we asked an employee who happened to be near there. She said that it was right through the door where the brilliant security guard was standing and holding it open. Ugh!! We went and paid the fee to the nice man and returned the receipts to the previous lady. She said we should be receiving our "package in 2-3 weeks and have a nice day". That was it. it was relatively painless and were there about 1 1/2 hours total. it was a great day!
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