The penultimate moment of an emotionally exhausting 5 months hard work climaxes today. Sleeping in, I suddenly realised it was do or die. I had to get there.
Traversing the London underground, there was no margin for error. Yet, I kept missing connections, and panicking that I'd blown the whole interview, I finally arrived fully suited at the embassy over 25 minutes late.
Thankfully, it didn't matter.
After being shepherded through security I took a number, sat down, and then sat some more. My advice for anyone about to go through these interviews: bring a good book!
So how does it work? The whole process has two stages.
The first is to check you have the correct documents, passport photograph and everything outlined in the interview letter. Once this has been submitted you are told to take a seat while the information is processed.
Take a seat and get comfortable, you'll be waiting another hour.
When you're number is called again (in a vein not too dissimilar to a doctors surgery) you meet a clerk through a glass window that brought memories of banking at Natwest. I was asked some very straightforward questions, job title, where I went to college at etc. And then I was good to go!
I submitted my passport, stood in line to pay the mandatory additional fee to have it mailed back with my visa stamp and I was good to go.
It took the whole afternoon for less than 10 minutes of interaction, but who cares. My US H1-B Visa is now APPROVED!!!
Time to Celebrate!!! :D
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