Consulate Review: Montreal, Canada
Review Topic: K1 Visa
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| Review Date : |
January 24, 2011 |
| Embassy Review : |
We had a strange and scary experience at the interview. We had an interview at 8:30am, we got there at 8am. My fiance and I decided that it did not make any sense for us to stand outside in the freezing cold just to be able to leave the consulate early.
Everything up to the interview was fine, normal, as everyone has put it.
At the interview, I, the USC was asked the first question, I was stumped. I did not expect this at all. I was asked how me met, which I told the officer, and I don't think he believed us, because he asked again, then he asked us exactly where and when. Then he went on to ask me about my work, and my income. He asked my fiance for her marital status, status in Canada, which countries I have visited, any relatives in US. He asked us to sit down for a while, and then called us back up.
He took her fingerprints at the beginning of the interview, and he ended the interview with an orange card and said that the fingerprint machine is not working, and asked us to return at noon.
For us it was difficult to wait such a long time for the interview, and then another two hour wait, this is what was torture. We left the embassy at 10am and went back to the hotel. Those two hours my fiance and I just kept on wondering if it was truly the fingerprinting machine, or did something go wrong.
At 11:50am, we went to the embassy again. This time we waited for almost 1 hour before we were called up at the window again. When we both went up, they asked me to sit back down, and said wanted to interview my fiance. At that point, everything happened so fast, and yet not, because every minute seemed like an hour. They grilled us, separately, interviewed both of us. Asked her about her ex, and a few other people from her life. Asked me about how many times I visited, my fiance's family, the color of her couch, color of dining table, etc. Even when and where we consummated our relationship. It was unreal, I thought something like this would happen to us at our adjustment of status interview. My fiance and I, somewhere had lost any hope of her getting the visa. The officer was brutal, we understand it is part of his job, but I still do not understand why we went through this. None of my fiance's documents were looked at except affidavit of support. We had over 200 photos, at least 50 pages of phone records. I visited my fiance 8 times. I don't know where we went wrong, of if we were a test case of some sort. I cannot put my finger on this, we still wonder about what happened till today. After they interviewed me, and tallied my answers with that of my fiance's, and then called her back in, and sent me out. At that time, the officer told her, that after conducting all the research, he is granting her the visa. She did not know how to react, we were just trying to still sink this all in, she still thanked him, and we then left.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I can't really rate the consulate. For us, the consulate was not like what others had described, but we are still very happy that it ended well. We are now worried about her POE and our AOS,if we will be treated the same way.
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Not Rated |
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