Ho Chi Minh City B2 Interview

[No name 88 48]

This week my wife is going for the B2 interview at HCMC. The consulate web site says no extra people at the interview but I'm going with her with our baby. Does anyone no if the baby and I will have to wait outside or will they just let us in at this consulate.

Don't responded telling I'll get denied. That's not what I asked. It's only a $160 and I don't see the harm in trying. I got a new baby and the family in the US doesn't believe that the CR1/IR1 takes a year. At least a denial will keep the family in the US quiet for a while.

[Anonymous885 44]

If you bring your US Passport, then you can get inside with her. I think they mention that to prevent vietnamese citizen to get inside. My fiancee 's mother was staying outside because she is vietnamese citizen.

You should not bring your child going inside the Consulate because it is crowded and hot in the waiting room of Embassy.

Good Luck.

[vbtbmrt 2]

i filed a cr1 before and yes it took exactly 1 yr from file to when she arrived here

[Chris & Trinh 15]

This week my wife is going for the B2 interview at HCMC. The consulate web site says no extra people at the interview but I'm going with her with our baby. Does anyone no if the baby and I will have to wait outside or will they just let us in at this consulate.

Don't responded telling I'll get denied. That's not what I asked. It's only a $160 and I don't see the harm in trying. I got a new baby and the family in the US doesn't believe that the CR1/IR1 takes a year. At least a denial will keep the family in the US quiet for a while.

As I mentioned before on one of your other posts......I went done this exact same road you are about a year or more ago...

At that time I was NOT allowed into the Embassy to wait with my wife. My son and I waited at a coffee shop across the street. They have completely different rules for the tourist visa and the immigrant visa, which you can attend the interview. I was pretty mad they wouldn't let me into the Embassy to wait with her even though I am an American citizen with my US passport in hand. After I complained they said I could enter in to the US services area of the Embassy if I had some business to take care of, but I couldn't not enter into the area that my wife was having her interview. Anyway, good luck let us know the outcome.

[Chris & Trinh 15]

If you bring your US Passport, then you can get inside with her. I think they mention that to prevent vietnamese citizen to get inside. My fiancee 's mother was staying outside because she is vietnamese citizen.

You should not bring your child going inside the Consulate because it is crowded and hot in the waiting room of Embassy.

Good Luck.

This is FALSE information. Doesn't matter what nationality you are, American, Vietnamese etc......you can NOT attend the interview with the person being interviewed for a tourist visa

[Anonymous885 44]

They have different rules between tourist and immigration visa? That is weird.

As you mentioned above that you had gone through the same process as OP, then I believe your info.

I was assumed that it is the same rule as immigrant visa.

Edited February 16, 2014 by Anonymous885

[RhettVoe 282]

The tourist visa interview is a PRIVATE one, solely between the CO and the applicant...no one else is allowed to stand around and 'make sure my gf/wife gets a visa'.....while you might be allowed into the American Citizens Services section, that area is not a waiting room.

Tourist visas are not granted so a beneficiary of an immigrant visa petition can chill out waiting out the processing time.

[Boiler 45,499]

You can not in London, apart from anything else you need an invitation to get in, which you presumably do not have.

How would you get through security?

[No name 88 48]

You can not in London, apart from anything else you need an invitation to get in, which you presumably do not have.

How would you get through security?

I've been in a half a dozen different consulates and have found that there is no consistency with regards the way that they operate. That's why I was specifically asked what they do at HCMC so I can prepare the wife with what to expect.

I'll just wait down the street at the coffee shop while the wife is inside. Either way afterwards we'll go out for a nice diner downtown.

[RhettVoe 282]

for immigrant visa interviews, specifically based on marriage, and K1 interviews, the USC spouse is often encouraged/invited to the interview...but not for other types of nonimmigrant visa interviews. Your presence (or attempts to be present) will not add any positive value to the outcome of the interview.

[JRF 117]

Todd good luck. At least the weather is relatively cool now so waiting at a coffee shop with a baby won't be too bad (assuming the little one is in a good mood).

JF

[Mark88 183]

Since you are all making a family trip to the consulate, you could consider filing a CRBA for your child at the same time.

http://hochiminh.usconsulate.gov/report_of_birth_abroad.html#5

[No name 88 48]

Todd good luck. At least the weather is relatively cool now so waiting at a coffee shop with a baby won't be too bad (assuming the little one is in a good mood).

JF

Thanks. The baby is always in a good mood. We got lucky on that front; he hardly ever cries but just laughs and smiles.

I got the idea of providing the wife with a letter from me stating to the consulate our intentions of returning to Vietnam after 28 days as I have to return to India for a work contract and the wife's family has been helping with the baby.

[No name 88 48]

Since you are all making a family trip to the consulate, you could consider filing a CRBA for your child at the same time.

http://hochiminh.usconsulate.gov/report_of_birth_abroad.html#5

Read my signature. It's not a big deal for us to go to the consulate. I live downtown in District 1. The consulate is a $3 cab ride away.

The only hazard are the con artists across the street.

[T&T&T 31]

I also went down this road, I was refused entry to the consulate when my wife interviewed for her tourist visa, later I was told that they had already decided to deny the visa long before she ever arrived. But as you say it only cost 160 dollars to quiet the family back home. On the flip side of the visa process I have been encouraged to attend my wife's I-130 interview by the consulate people. Lots of Luck.....

Edited February 17, 2014 by T&T&T