ivanmladek
Registered Users (C)
A few days ago I went for my interview at the US Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic. After a medical I had to do in Prague and which was just a formality, I finally went to the embassy at 130PM. Since Czechs no longer need tourist visas to the US, the embassy was completely empty. Not a soul.
I had a pile of papers with me:
-birth certificate in czech and english
-police certificates from Czech and the UK
-letter of employment from my university in the US
-bachelor's and master's degrees all in English
-tax documents from the US for the past 5 years
- and most importantly a "2-year home residency waiver" from the USCIS because in 2002 I was in the states on a cultural exchange visa J1.
I got to the window, paid the $785, they looked at the documents and the immigration official came right away. The pleasant and very polite lady did not ask a single question, just piled through the papers, said: "Good, I see you got your 2-year home residency waiver, so we are all good. Come tomorrow morning for your visa. It will be a pleasure to have you. Thank you."
And that's that. It seems as long as all your papers are "clean" and translated, no criminal offences, no typos on the birth certificates, no overstaying of US visas or illegal employment, you should be fine.
So finally a massive thanks to all the people on the forums who have helped me tremendously and good luck to you all.
I had a pile of papers with me:
-birth certificate in czech and english
-police certificates from Czech and the UK
-letter of employment from my university in the US
-bachelor's and master's degrees all in English
-tax documents from the US for the past 5 years
- and most importantly a "2-year home residency waiver" from the USCIS because in 2002 I was in the states on a cultural exchange visa J1.
I got to the window, paid the $785, they looked at the documents and the immigration official came right away. The pleasant and very polite lady did not ask a single question, just piled through the papers, said: "Good, I see you got your 2-year home residency waiver, so we are all good. Come tomorrow morning for your visa. It will be a pleasure to have you. Thank you."
And that's that. It seems as long as all your papers are "clean" and translated, no criminal offences, no typos on the birth certificates, no overstaying of US visas or illegal employment, you should be fine.
So finally a massive thanks to all the people on the forums who have helped me tremendously and good luck to you all.