Interview just took place (yesterday), Please note below

[russian_armenian 4]

My impression is that she wants to take your case to her manager-that is why she asked for tax transcripts (maybe she felt sympathy and really believed your story). But she doubt that your case will be approved (even if she presents it with more docs) since she would note on your file that separation came before conditional GC (how on earth they have learnt about it since you moved back together later?) That is serious. You should have stressed that it was not a real separation. I guess, you both were living together at I-485 interview-(otherwise, the whole process could be canceled and interview answers could be deemed not reliable).

You need a laywer. Pay for consultation-ask about separation before GC and how to get around. Maybe you can write something on cover letter about your case to make separation look less serious (like argument, I dont realy know).

I guess to take your case to judge is not a bad idea. But you will need a lawyer.

If you have time check field officer mannual on USBIS web-it should have some paragraphs about separation before GC.

The other thing, I think that officer should not mention about finding a woman from the same cultural background. She might tryed to be nice to you and just let you know how you should continue with immigration

or she might just felt that you dont belong.

Anyway, if you are not planning to get married soon again-you really need a lawyer (he might tell you that you have a good chance with IJ in court). Anyway, at least you know that even if you denied, it is not going to be because of fraud. So, you would be able to adjudicate though other marriage or work or just through judge.

Just keep in there

Well, I had my interview yesterday, I was there for over an hour

The officer was better than the previous one, at least gave me much more feedback

It did make me upset how she kept referring to that maybe we should let an immigration judge decide this and that they tend to be nice so i have options. I asked her flat am I being denied she said I did not say that, but you have a bad case

Basically

the first separation took place in july 04, green card came in the mail in October of 2004, then we went back and forth and she eventually took all her stuff out. She said she understands the financial trouble, but the initial separation came too soon, and I dont have much documents to provide jointly after the greencard arrived

I have car insurance bill that got cancelled,

joint tax returns for 2004

bank statement showing what we owe when we went in over draft

joint bankruptcy filed February 2005

I told her I understand the marriage went bad, but we had a terrible time, and I could not be asking my ex-wife to keep more and more things jointly when bankruptcy was at our door.

She said I should of stayed together longer before getting separated, I begged her to see that its NOT a scripted story, I was not going to ask my ex-to stay a little longer with all the fighting just so we look more joint on paper, i knew i was doing the right thing and all my worrys at the time was the unhealthy relationship.

She then said, and I SWEAR word for word, "well, if you have a girlfriend now that comes from a similar cultural background, marry her and she can sponser you, better than this case.

at the end she gave me her fax number and asked me to get an official transcript of 2004 taxes from IRS and fax to her, and the she stamped my passport for one year

It was devastating, I got my conditional back in 04, and now i am suppose to start allover again and file an i-485 like the one i did back in 2003

any thoughts

P.S.. she said she will check the LAW, but she does NOT believe that I was suppose to be granted Conditional residence since the separation came too quickly, even though divorce took place over a year later

[Poker_Pro 0]

hey, where can I find that field officer manual? so I can review some of that information

thanks