Consulate Review: Guangzhou, China
Review Topic: K1 Visa
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| Review Date : |
November 21, 2016 |
| Embassy Review : |
The K1 interview wasn’t a hard one. It was more like a friendly conversation than what I thought.
My interview appointment was at 8:15 am and I got to the Guangzhou consulate at 8 am.
I first went through the security check, and then went to the main building. Lesson learned here, you can put your small items in the shelves at the security check for free. I paid 20 rmb at the booth outside the consulate for my phone…
Following the sign and the line I took the elevator to another floor for interview (can’t remember which floor now). There were lots of people there waiting for the immigration interview on different purpose such as family, investment, fiancée and etc. There are three sections in the same room. At the first section I got a number. At the second section, a lady took away my two passport photos, health check report, police report, birth certificate, financial support documents (since we filed a cosponsor, I brought the copy of the passport info page of both my fiancée and the cosponsor). The lady put all in a folder and passed it to the next section where I was interviewed. I got to keep the proof of relationship and my resume.
Actually I felt being asked more questions at the second section. That lady asked me what I apply the K1 visa for, what my fiancée does in China, where she is from, what I do in China, if I have been to other countries and how we met each other. She was very friendly and told me that the passport photos I took at the metro booth in Shanghai were bad qualities and my birth certificate was different for the others’. She helped me pick two better one out of four photos. At that moment, I didn’t think it was a big deal until upon the interview the birth certificate did bring some troubles.
At the third section here comes the real interview. I looked at the clock in the officer’s room and it was 9:35 am already. The interview officer sat down and asked me why I have a passport from Beijing (undergraduate in Beijng), where I live now (Shanghai), when the first time my fiancée and I first met. She was focusing on typing this information I answered into the computer and didn’t even look at any materials. Then she asked me to do my fingerprints. After that she flipped through the materials in the folder and told me that my birth certificate was different and they cannot accept it. I was confused and asked why. She went to ask somebody else and said no again however she couldn’t explain why clearly. She decided to show me someone else’s birth certificate or just a template from the window. By comparing mine with what she showed me, I thought they looked very similar. I told her that I don’t understand what is wrong with mine and I also got my from the notary office. She went away again, came back and decided to accept it. She gave me a white paper and that is it! It was 9:45am when I left that room. |
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Very Good |
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