Just had our AOS interview today

wintime · February 20, 2009

Finally we had our AOS interview, and we were approved :dance: :thumbs: :dance: :dance:

Here is how it went :yes:

- We arrived in the parking lot of the USCIS building an hour and 20 minutes early

- We would have been let in 45 minutes before our appointment, but we stayed in our car to kinda chat about the possible questions

- We got in half hour before the interview and went through the security check and then to the interview waiting area, were we were asked to drop our interview letter in a small metal tray, and we waited along with about 20 other people

- Our name was called exactly at the time of interview by our interviewer

- He took us both to his office, and started asking my wife (the beneficiary) to confirm all the information on the I-485 form by asking her that verbally as follow

§ Your name, Address and phone number

§ Then the other immigration questions from the form, like have you applied for a visa to US before, have you taken any government aid, have you been deported before.

§ Then asked the rest of the questions that is on form I-485, like have you been convicted before, have you been arrested, are you affiliated with any terrorist group …etc

- Then he asked us if we have a copy a lease together, and we didn’t but I told him I have other documents, and he asked me to present them, so I gave him the following

§ Our shared checking account

§ Our photos from the wedding, and from a trip we made for honey moon

§ Federal Tax return that we filed jointly.

§ Our baby to (be born) ultra sound photos, which he was interested in because it shows my wife’s name on, so he took copy of that

§ Our health and dental and vision insurance showing that my wife is with me on my job’s insurance

§ Showed him a form that shows my wife as beneficiary on my live insurance, and because I filled this form out few days ago I showed him an email from my employer to me that they have received this update.

§ Some letters that my wife received to our home address, and he took only one and made a copy of it

- After that he stated to us that he will approve the case, and that we will get the approval letter within two weeks, and another two weeks we will be getting the GC,

Now this last point is interesting because from all the posts I read here in VJ is that the interviewer doesn’t tell you that you are approved, he or she will maybe give you a personal opinion wither the paper work is complete or not, that is it.

But I like to believe our interviewer :yes: because he was very nice and made our case go smooth.

Please note that our I-485 case is based on K3 (meaning we filed I-130 then I-129F)

Thanks to everybody's help!!! :thumbs: