Hi Isito,
Thanks for sharing your experience here. I know these people never ever
can imagine the hardships faced by the prospective immigrants.
Anyway, it's our fate to be on long waiting.
Damodar
Originally posted by Isito
> Guys,
>
> I understand you so well. I think everybody would have bad feelings
> about visa officers playing with people's lives. I realize that many
> people apply to get a visa, but I simply cannot believe the time it
> takes to process one application.
>
> We don't have a consulate in my home country and the residents of my
> country apply to Turkey. When I was getting my student visa I had to
> travel to Turkey to attent 2 minute interview. I mean it! my interview
> took exactly 2 minutes.
>
> I know that many visitors in Canada have problems getting US visa. So,
> when they request an interview in Buffalo the only thing you can do
> (in most cases) is to transfer your files to somewhere you can travel,
> i.e. almost start over. I tried to get US visa in Toronto but I could
> not. Now I have to wait to get an interview notification and ask LA
> office to transfer the files to Istanbul and it will probably take
> more than 2 years to transfer and one more year to finalize
> everything. It frustrates me so much. You should not spend 5 years of
> your life waiting, sending new documents and planning everything in
> your life considering the immigration application. This is too much.
>
> And you know what frustrates me even more? How do they decide which
> applicant needs an interview? They said I needed an interview because
> they had doubts regarding my education. I had undergraduate and
> graduate degrees from the best university in my country and I was MBA
> student at York university - one of the best universities in Canada (I
> am graduating in 4 weeks). Why did they have doubts, what was
> suspisious about my education? I know a person, a former resident of
> my country, who has never attended any class in any university, sent a
> fake diploma (you can get one for very little money in ex-USSR
> countries) and got a visa within 10 months without any interview. O
> yes, his education was not suspisious, mine was. I mean, how do
> officers make decisions? Does their mood have anything to do with it?
WHY ARE THEY PLAYING WITH PEOPLE'S LIVES?
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