E2 Visa interview in Toronto

Here is an email we received from one of our clients who had his interview at the Korean Consulate in Toronto. He has some helpful advice for anyone needing to do their interview at this location. As you know, every consulate has a different way of doing things with the new E2 visa rules. Thanks for the help Andrew!

Hi everyone hope you've all had a good weekend,

There were about 8-10 of us visa seekers awaiting our
interview times in the conference room at the consulate and just before
the interviews were to begin, one of the women conducting the interview
informed us all that our passports/visas would be sent to us abut 3 days
after the interview. So what I had been told on the phone didn't really
matter apparently.

I had been talking to a number of the others in the room and they were not
surprised at all by this. It seemed that everyone I'd talked to had been
through weeks and months of delays for their whole visa/job process as
well.

The interview went well though. They had me fill out one form which I'm
sure i had already filled out before. It asked such things as employer
address, education info, university address, passport info, medical info,
criminal info., etc.

Luckily I'd printed off a page with such things as the school's address in
Korea, contact there, etc

The interviews lasted maybe 3 minutes consisting of maybe 5 or 6 basic
questions such as: why Korea? what experience do you have? what age will
you be teaching? etc. The man asking the questions did stump me however
with his last one; "Who is the President of South Korea?" ... honestly no
clue, definitely not a question I was anticipating. (editors note: Lee Myung Bak)
I could give you the North Korean leader but thats about it. I told him that I actually didn't know but I did however know a fair bit about the city I was going to. The fact that I didn't know didn't seem to be any problem at all.


Any advice I'd give for anyone having their interview at the Toronto
consulate would be to bring a page of your education info, Korean school
info, and your own passport info so that they could fill out the form
there and probably one of the most important things, PARKING. You are not
allowed to park in the consulates parking lot apparently and seeing as
it's winter most parking spaces along the road anywhere near the consulate
were completely blocked off with snow. I did manage to find a public
parking lot about a block away behind an office building near a cemetary
on St. Clair St W, it's a little hidden but it's there. One of the guys in
the room said he had been stuck looking for parking for 45 minutes and
there were a couple of other's that arrived late because they had the same
parking problems. So make sure to be plenty early.

All in all a pretty painless process that for sure could have been done
via telephone but that's all part of the experience right?

Thanks everyone and just let me know of any of the new changes whenever
you know,

--Andy M

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