Info about US Embassy in London

Mine was over 4 hours i think!

 

bit of advice.

book the latest slot and you'll be rushed through. 2.30 pm is the latest slot and i was out by 5, only 2 and a half hours later, yet the woman sat next to me left the same time as me and she had been in since 11.30.

And with regards to phones, food and ipods... phones and ipods were put in a plastic bag and you kept them off whilst in there and if they said you weren't alowed them in you left them behind. Food, someone behind me practically had a picnic with her.

Oh and the photo booth in the embassy is broken at the moment so don't leave your photo til last minute!!

 

you've gone recently and this is what happened? Only the station I'm coming in at doesn't have left luggage so if I can't take my phone then I'm going to have to traipse around trying to some office my Dad's got links with to leave it in! And there's no way I can go without my phone..!

 

Do i have to do that internet application thingi before i book my interview???

 

yes

 

well on oyur head be it if you take your phone in and use it-wheni was there someone was usig it after being repeatedly told not to and was kicked out

 

best advice i can give (and ive said it before!) but - go to the embassy in Belfast! It really was so fast there,i was in and out in just over an hour! I guess if you want to make a trip of it and stay a few days in London thats cool but i really do think that having to wait for like4,5 even 6 hours there is pretty crazy,i wouldnt have had the patience!!!!! In Belfast we were not allowed to take phones/ipods etc in at all - if you had them on you you had to hand them in at the security desk on entry and collect them on the way out.

 

only problem with that is, in the letter thats come with the visa info, it says u have to attend the emabssy u told them in ur interview....so if uve already said london then u cnt go to belfast.

 

yeah that is a bit of a pain i know,but just for anyone who hasnt already said at the interview!!! i totaly forgot about that actually! damn it!

 

can you go to the belfast one even if u live in england? i live in liverpool but have friends in belfast an it takes me like 35 mins to get there on easyjet haha last year i went to london an it was such a pain in the ass! i assumed u had to go to the one in your own country....

 

niki-you live in liverpool? me to-what programme you doing-the summer one or the year long-when u goin?

And yes, it would be so much easier for me to go to Belfast as well-the flight is less than an hour and id imagine Belfast isnt that hard to get around compared to London

 

you can you to either the embassy in London or Belfast it makes no difference where you live! you have to say which ione you want to go to at your interview tho!

 

On the DS 156 form, it asks "have you ever been in the US" and "Have u ever had a VISA" and add all additional information. I've been to florida loads, so do I have to give all information, and exact dates ect??

 

i just put the years i went and where in america i went, cos it's a pretty small box.

 

Hey i go 2 liverpool Uni, and im from liverpool. Wer do you both live?

 

during uni i live in grand central in the city centre-out side Uni time i live over the other side of the river from Liverpool-i go to JMU

 

wow really? thats so cool lol my mate lives in grand central too he lives in the one that overlooks the adelphi. im sure u wud know of him cus hes a dirty little boy! i go to jmu an live in birkenhead/wallasey. im goin for 6 months on the j1 academic programme. what dates are you guys leaving? we should meet up?

 

we should indeed-m doing the year long-leaving in december-so youd still be there i think. I live ont he wirral as ive said, near Bebington. In Grand central i live in the building over looking Lime street-its a pain, every morning you get woken up at 6.30 by "the 6.40 train to sheffield is now boarding"-no need for alarm clock lol

 

i live in grand central n am in JMU doing biology. u both in ur first year?

 

no last year