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| Chile |  Review on March 20, 2012: |
Kay&Jon
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
Jon's (Chilean beneficiary) review of the embassy...
I got to the embassy at 1:20pm my interview was at 2:00. I was by myself waiting outside. At 1:30 two couples showed up to get in line for the K-1 visa as well. The security guy opened the door at 1:35. He asked me to go in and told us to take out any cell phones or electronic device and I had to give it to them. Then I had to walk through the metal detector. He gave me two numbers. One was red for my locker number one was yellow (Number 1) for the number of my place in line for the interview. Then I went outside to the courtyard. It was a huge place but there you can see a path to the consulate. In front of the door that says "Consulado" there was another security guy who told me to take a seat and wait for my number to be called. After I walked into the room nobody was there. There were just three girls (Chilean) at a desk working quietly on paperwork but it had nothing to do with me. I took a seat in front of window number 8 and waited there for about 20 minutes (In the room they have a TV playing a video provided by the USCIS I assume talking about America. There is also a bathroom and a vending machine!) Then other people started getting into the room, they were applying for other kinds of visas. The girls at the desk started taking their papers and then they opened the curtains and a Chilean girl said "Number 1 to Window 8". I went to the window, the girl said do you have all your paperwork? I said yes. Then she asked me if I had the receipt for the visa, I also said yes and she asked me for the receipt. Then she asked me for my DS157. Then she gave me back some papers saying I gave her too much. Then she asked me for my DS156 and my DS230 (part 1 only). Finally, she told me she was going to ask me some questions. The first question was "How did you meet your fiancee?" I told her the whole story of how I met her. Then she asked me if I knew my fiancee's parents. I said yes. She saw that I had been in the United States twice (on a work and travel visa) and asked what I was there for. Then she asked me how many time my fiancee had been in Chile (like 10!). Then, what is the language you use when you speak to each other (I told her she speaks Chilean very well!) :P When I was giving my answers, she was typing them into a computer. Finally she said, ok everything looks alright take a seat and they will call you to window #6.
I waited 5 minutes and an American man called me to window #6. He said "Ok I am going to ask you some questions. I need to know if you understand everything on the DS156K, I said yes and signed it in front of him. He then had me raise my right hand and swear this.
Then he started with the questions (in Spanish, he never asked me which language I wanted to do the interview in) Tell me how you met your fiancee? I repeated the answer, he asked if I had met my fiance's family, I said yes (again). He was very nice with me for the entire interview.
Then he said "Ok all your files look in order so that's it, do you have any questions about the process?". I said, no, sorry that I wasn't speaking in English to you I just wanted to be sure of my answers. He said "Its ok I'm not sure of my Spanish sometimes either" Finally he made sure that I knew I had 90 days to get married once I arrive in the U.S. I said ok and left.
The whole process was 1 hour and 25 minutes. Everybody was really nice to me, it wasn't a bad experience at all! 
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #9352