vladek15425
Well-Known Member
Fantastic experienceMy CN is 2014EU396**, so most of you exactly know the things that I went through in the last few months and how blessed/lucky we are that our number became current. We had our interview yesterday (according to the ceac data and my cn, we were the last ones in our country who had dv interview) and our visas were approved.
I was in read-only-mode till this moment, but have spent dozens of hours reading your comments, advices etc., so first of all: thank you guys for the huge help you have provided for me and for the „hidden” folks like me. As someone wrote in the other thread: your help was one of the main reasons I was well prepared for the interview. So: simon, susie, vladek, mom, franko, sloner: thank you very much!
Yesterday was a tough day, and in the morning it seemed, that everything could go wrong… First, between the subway station and the embassy a horrible and sudden monsun rain caught us. We had to hurry to be there in time, so decided to walk there in the rain, but our umbrella was only enough to protect the bag with the documents. When we arrived the entrance of the embassy all of our clothes were soggy. (Of course 5 minutes later the sun was shining again.) Then I told the guard my name and the appointment date, he checked the list and told me that my name is not on the list… I had a little heart attack, and showed him my appointment letter. (In the meantime my wife tried to dry our wet birth certificates with a tissue.) He called the office and after a minute he told me that they have just updated the list and now my name is on it… After 30 minutes of waiting we handed in our documents and paid the fee – this part went smoothly. After another 30 minutes the CO called us to the desk and our interview began. But when taking our fingerprints something went wrong with their system and it collapsed. The CO (a very kind woman) asked us to wait a little bit till they fix it. After 45 minutes she informed us that the system still doesn’t work, but they’re trying hard to fix it. So, could we come back on another day? I told her that we are from a city from the other part of the country, so we would like to come back that afternoon. She promised me she will call us as soon as the system is OK again. She told us not to worry, because our documents seem fine. Despite of that I had 3 very stressful hours with daymares about visas running out and rescheduled interview dates, but then they called us back. The interview was about 10 minutes long, the CO asked us about our present occupation and our future plans with these abilities in the US. The next question was about our relatives living there (we both have a lot of family members: bothers, sister, uncle and cousins int he US). And then she asked my wife about her 10 months long stay with a tourist visa back in 1999. She explaned it (we have prepared for that question and had the right answer to it), and then the CO told us the our visas are approved. My status is still ready on the ceac site, but I hope it will be changed soon.
Sooo. If everything goes as planned, at the beginning of next year we will fly to CA and stay there for a while
Thanks for sharing.
