Consulate Review: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Review Topic: K3 Visa
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| Review Date : |
October 18, 2016 |
| Embassy Review : |
My experience was pretty good at RDJ Consulate. My interview was scheduled 10:20AM, but we were there at 9:00AM. There was a small line to access the facility, but people on the line were there for mainly for Tourist/Business visas, and we used another entrance ahead this line, since our request was for a K3 Visa. We crossed the X-Ray area (bags and ANY electronic devices are not allowed) and we were oriented to go upstairs at the 2nd floor. Once there Alex asked us to sit down and wait. 15 minutes later, he called us and gave a checklist form and oriented to put the documents in that order. 15 minutes later he checked if all the documents were there and in order. Everything was ok, and he asked us to wait. After 20 minutes, a woman called us to pre-check the documents. She returned the copies of the documents, opened the Medical Exams and gave to me my vaccination certificate, because it is valid in USA and I will need it. She also collected my fingerprints and asked me to wait for the CO call in the same auditorium that I was before. We waited around 2 hours to have our interview, because the CO was interviewing other visa requesters. We were called and the interview didn’t take more than 5 minutes. He just asked:
- Where do I live?
- Where does my husband lives?
- If I will move to USA
- When we got married
- Where we got married
I answered all the questions promptly, but I confess I wrongly said my Marriage date, what I corrected immediately, and he made a joke saying that all Brazilians don’t remember dates… we all laughed and he said the magic words “I will proceed with your visaâ€. He wished us good luck in USA and I left the room. After this, I just went to the post office near the Consulate, I paid the delivery, and went back to Consulate to deliver the post office document.
Some tips:
- Take all the original documents that you sent the copies to NVC with you and the new ones requested on the letter that you received scheduling your interview;
- Take copies of all documents, even the one that you sent to NVC. Just in case…
- At the document check moment (not the one that Alex did), they probably will return a lot of documents copies to you. Keep them and do not complain that you have now more than 1 copy of some documents… it is better you have to copies instead of have none and have your interview rescheduled due this.
- Take the requested photos, otherwise they will not collect your fingerprints and you have to reschedule your interview;
- Follow all the instructions given and wait for Alex orientation. I saw some people talking a lot and not putting the papers in order.
- Eat something before go to the consulate. I was prepared to stay all the morning there. I arrived at 9:00AM and I just left at 1:00PM.
- Consulate is very close Cinelandia Subway Station. Around 200m.
(updated on October 17, 2016) |
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Very Good |
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