Eleanorbiyi
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Its my prayer that we all get the interviewsYou really do need to pay close attention to every word I say in my posts Susie IF you want to reply to them.
I said it was poor form by the Sydney consulate IF the married couple’s story was true.
Are you saying it’s not poor form to collect over 1K USD in interview fees, from A FAMILY, and as soon as the interview commenced, before any questions were asked, they were told they were disqualified?
If the case was so obvious for disqualification that no questions were asked at the interview, the disqualification should have happened before the interview was even scheduled, if anything, to give the interview spot and the at least 3 available visas to other selectees who DID qualify for a DV, but perhaps missed out because OC didn’t go current that year.
It gives the
Impression to a lay person the Sydney consulate was just collecting “easy money”.
And your continued opinions (which appear correct) that this embassy does it this way and that embassy does it that way doesn’t help.
All embassies operate under the same INA and therefore all embassies (should) be the operating the same. Instead, you have people in NZ stressing because they didn’t post their documents in on time to the Auckland consulate, yet “across the ditch” 3 hours away by plane in Sydney you just turn up on the day with your documents.
Refusals at Sydney due to failing to have the required education? Do you have any links to any posts regarding that? Because you know how subjective and open to interpretation education is? although after the correspondence I have seen that’s about to be sent to the Consul General in Sydney, there may be an amendment to the FAM, or at least Sydney’s “policy” on education requirements for a DV. It may be the case that many Australian selectees got DVs based on their education when they should not have, and in the future, only a year 12 HSC WITH ATAR # will be accepted, rather than the HSC with no ATAR, just like (it appears) the US high school education needs the SAT score to apply for (proper) US college admission, as without the SAT college admission is unlikely.
KCC should not be pre vetting DV cases? Oh of course, what was I thinking, KCC are too busy already, and those BritSimon YouTube videos that allege KCC lose documents, do nothing etc is fake
news.
If there were a DV year where extra pre interview vetting should be done to make sure every one who gets one of the limited interview spots is not obviously disqualified, it is this year.
Oh hang on, just checked the VB, OC and most of the world has (now) gone current, relax, we’re all getting interviews.......