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|  Review on June 16, 2012: |
mzeewakazi
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Ok, so let me share our experience through this journey. I received notification on 5/4/12 that NVC was done with our case and transmitting documents to Nairobi and Visa interview scheduled for 6/4/12 at 6:30am. Called my wife and shared the news, right away we started preparing. Thanks to VJ we learned alot from here. I requested 1 week off from 6/1 so i could travel and attend interview with my wife. Bought ticket on Egypt air a few days later leaving JFK on 6/1 and arriving in Nairobi 6/3 4am. We gathered all possible questions from VJ from all consulates around the world and I drilled my wife on them for the next three weeks. My wife gathered all evidence on her end like boarding passes for Kisumu, Mombasa, Malindi during our holidays, hotel receipts, amboseli receipts, chat logs for 4 years, emails, cards, and pictures. We had so many pictures over 5000 spaning 4 years. We did a small civil wedding at the AG's office in Kisumu that only my wifes sisters attended, this was in Ausust 2011, this was because i wanted to file for her right away and not wait for Dec 2011 when we did a huge garden wedding at Safari Park Hotel that 250 guests attended. My wife had pictures from both ceremonies, the Safari Park was quite huge and the album enormous. I told her to pick only the best pictures and put them in an envelope, the ones that shows our families together and friends. So she had 5 envelopes 1. First meeting in 2009, 2. vacation and safari pictures, 3. Engagement pictures from 2010 we had a nice cartered for event at the marble arch with family and friends, 4. AG's civil wedding in Kisumu, 5. Big wedding celebration at Safari Park Hotel dec of 2011. Before I left for Kenya I made sure I had ordered my call records from T-Mobile for the past 3 years, T-Mobile said they would give me actual bills for every month for the past three years at a charge of $5 per bill, I agreed. The bills arrived and they were quite a huge and heavy amount, now the next task was to go over each bill and highlight the calls and texts to and from my wife, quite a task that took a whole week. 6/1 arrive and I left for Kenya, this was my 6th time going there in 3 years so i was used to it, had a 10 hour stop over in Egypt and i did not waste it coz I visited the pyramids, was quite nice. I arrived in Kenya on 6/3 at 4:00am to the arms of my loving wife. We spent the day on Sunday preparing for the interview. Monday morning we left our place at 5:00am and the drive to the embassy is only 10 mins coz we were staying in Ridgeways next to Runda. We got to the embassy at 5:10am and there were only 4 people lined up waiting, we joined the waiting line. At 6:00am the guard came and asked us to form 2 lines for males and females. At 6:30 they started letting people in, one had to have an appoitment letter which I did not have, I told the guard im going in for American Citizens Services and he told me I need an appoitment for that too but he let me through, at the second check point I was not allowed in because I did not have an appoitment. US citizens can now only walk trough on Wednesdays from 8am-1pm, so I gave my wife my passport coz it had all the stamps and visas for amount of time Ive been to Kenya. I kissed her goodluck and sat at the benches out there. 2 hours later my wife emerged from the embassy smilling and I knew that is a good sign. She told me the man that interviewed her was nice and patient and waited for her to answer questions before he asked the next. She was the 1st person to be interviewed that morning, The CO asker her the following
1. How did u meet your husband
2. Where does he work
3. What kind of work does he do
4. Where does he live
5. What is his cellphone number
6. Do you have any evidence- My wife handed him our engagement pictures, AG's wedding pictures and Safari Park wedding pictures, he looked through them and said "i believe you", then he said "congratulations you are approved", he handed her a form with instruction on how to register for DHL courier service, he then said your Visa will be ready in 1 to 2 weeks. I was so happy, we went to artcafe in village market and had breakfast as we registered for courier service. You have to be very prepared and have all your paperwork right, all the questions my wife was asked we had reharsed several times before, she was confident. Now shopping for cheap tickets.
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