AOS interview further review

[Devkpaik 1]

Hey guys,

I posted our interview experience on Nov. 2nd but I was not too thorough with the experience and it was sort of jumbled, so I'm trying to do a better job to explain the situation, etc.

My wife and I had our interview on November 2nd, 2009 and it seemed to go really smooth (I hope it did, it seemed as though it went great haha! )

Anyways, we brought a BUNCH of things. We went above and beyond what was needed.

We prepared two different packets. One packet with the technical stuff such as all notices sent from USCIS, tax returns, I-864, etc. The second packet contained all bonafide marriage proof. We also had two photo albums stuffed full of photos with captions next to each photo explaining where we were/what we were doing!

She asked us standard easy questions like:

"Where did you guys get engaged"?

"How did you guys meet"?

"What's your love story", and that was pretty much it. The rest was small talk.

She also seemed to be looking for something in the file that the USCIS has on us and she said "Oh, we seem to be missing some stuff on you, such as your G-325a, etc." Then I said "Oh, well I submitted that" and she said "Oh yea I know, because otherwise you wouldn't have been approved for an interview".

The interviewer only glanced through the first packet and took a little longer look (by little longer look I mean about two minutes) at our second packet.

She was smiling the whole time, laughing, joking, making personal comments about each photo, etc. We also attached some birthday cards from my family as well as my extended family wishing my wife a Happy birthday. The cards were from a family birthday party we had for my wife and for others in my family.

Anyways, we glued the birthday cards to a piece of blank white paper and wrote a caption explaining who the cards were from, etc. The interviewer said

"I love how you guys glued the cards to a piece of paper! That's cute. You guys are so organized!"

She then spent about two minutes looking at the photo albums we had. She saw a picture of my wife and I in the snow and she asked my wife (who is from Thailand) "How did you like the snow? I bet it was really cold for you huh!"

Both my wife and I explained how she LOVES the snow and how surprisingly she wasn't as cold as I thought she'd be!

Then the interviewer asked us if she could keep some of the evidence we had in our second packet and I said "Of course, you can keep anything you want in our packets". She then said "Oh, well I can't keep everything because you'd definitely want your passports, social security cards and debit cards back!" We all had a laugh at that. Then she proceeded to take out some email messages from friends/family addressed to Pai. She took an email from my mother which was sent to everyone in our families personal email accounts including my wife's email address and mine (of course) inviting us all to Thanksgiving.

That's about all she took.

Then she said "Well everything looks great! You guys were really organized! But unfortunately I can't give you an approval right now because we're missing some documents regarding you (me). They probably just got lost somewhere along the way when they were transferred from NVC or the embassy or something, so it's our mistake not yours".

I then asked her what the documents were so I could prepare them if they weren't able to track them down and she said "Well, they're documents you wouldn't personally be able to obtain such as your original I-129f petitions, etc."

So then I asked her "Okay well out of curiosity, when you guys find these documents, will be get an approval", to which she responded "Yes! Well assuming nothing crazy happens or something!"

Then she handed us a paper with a checkmarked box the case is being continued due to further review. The only options available to check mark are "Fingerprints" "Security clearance" "Relating A-File" "Further review" and "Visa availability".

So anyways, she walked us out and the entire time she was extremely friendly, jovial and outgoing.

My question to you guys is have ANY of you ever heard of them misplacing papers, etc. or have any of you actually been in this situation before?

I'm freaking out because I just read a horror story and have read many regarding people having to wait for MONTHS or years to hear back from USCIS and the initial interviewer forgetting how simple their case was and rescheduling them for a following interview.

This case particularly had me freaking out!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=226994

Anyways, any information from you guys would be great!

Thanks a lot!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hey guys,

I posted our interview experience on Nov. 2nd but I was not too thorough with the experience and it was sort of jumbled, so I'm trying to do a better job to explain the situation, etc.

My wife and I had our interview on November 2nd, 2009 and it seemed to go really smooth (I hope it did, it seemed as though it went great haha! )

Anyways, we brought a BUNCH of things. We went above and beyond what was needed.

We prepared two different packets. One packet with the technical stuff such as all notices sent from USCIS, tax returns, I-864, etc. The second packet contained all bonafide marriage proof. We also had two photo albums stuffed full of photos with captions next to each photo explaining where we were/what we were doing!

She asked us standard easy questions like:

"Where did you guys get engaged"?

"How did you guys meet"?

"What's your love story", and that was pretty much it. The rest was small talk.

She also seemed to be looking for something in the file that the USCIS has on us and she said "Oh, we seem to be missing some stuff on you, such as your G-325a, etc." Then I said "Oh, well I submitted that" and she said "Oh yea I know, because otherwise you wouldn't have been approved for an interview".

The interviewer only glanced through the first packet and took a little longer look (by little longer look I mean about two minutes) at our second packet.

She was smiling the whole time, laughing, joking, making personal comments about each photo, etc. We also attached some birthday cards from my family as well as my extended family wishing my wife a Happy birthday. The cards were from a family birthday party we had for my wife and for others in my family.

Anyways, we glued the birthday cards to a piece of blank white paper and wrote a caption explaining who the cards were from, etc. The interviewer said

"I love how you guys glued the cards to a piece of paper! That's cute. You guys are so organized!"

She then spent about two minutes looking at the photo albums we had. She saw a picture of my wife and I in the snow and she asked my wife (who is from Thailand) "How did you like the snow? I bet it was really cold for you huh!"

Both my wife and I explained how she LOVES the snow and how surprisingly she wasn't as cold as I thought she'd be!

Then the interviewer asked us if she could keep some of the evidence we had in our second packet and I said "Of course, you can keep anything you want in our packets". She then said "Oh, well I can't keep everything because you'd definitely want your passports, social security cards and debit cards back!" We all had a laugh at that. Then she proceeded to take out some email messages from friends/family addressed to Pai. She took an email from my mother which was sent to everyone in our families personal email accounts including my wife's email address and mine (of course) inviting us all to Thanksgiving.

That's about all she took.

Then she said "Well everything looks great! You guys were really organized! But unfortunately I can't give you an approval right now because we're missing some documents regarding you (me). They probably just got lost somewhere along the way when they were transferred from NVC or the embassy or something, so it's our mistake not yours".

I then asked her what the documents were so I could prepare them if they weren't able to track them down and she said "Well, they're documents you wouldn't personally be able to obtain such as your original I-129f petitions, etc."

So then I asked her "Okay well out of curiosity, when you guys find these documents, will be get an approval", to which she responded "Yes! Well assuming nothing crazy happens or something!"

Then she handed us a paper with a checkmarked box the case is being continued due to further review. The only options available to check mark are "Fingerprints" "Security clearance" "Relating A-File" "Further review" and "Visa availability".

So anyways, she walked us out and the entire time she was extremely friendly, jovial and outgoing.

My question to you guys is have ANY of you ever heard of them misplacing papers, etc. or have any of you actually been in this situation before?

I'm freaking out because I just read a horror story and have read many regarding people having to wait for MONTHS or years to hear back from USCIS and the initial interviewer forgetting how simple their case was and rescheduling them for a following interview.

This case particularly had me freaking out!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=226994

Anyways, any information from you guys would be great!

Thanks a lot!

Yes, I have heard of this. Hope they did not lose your medical exam

[Devkpaik 1]

Hey guys,

I posted our interview experience on Nov. 2nd but I was not too thorough with the experience and it was sort of jumbled, so I'm trying to do a better job to explain the situation, etc.

My wife and I had our interview on November 2nd, 2009 and it seemed to go really smooth (I hope it did, it seemed as though it went great haha! )

Anyways, we brought a BUNCH of things. We went above and beyond what was needed.

We prepared two different packets. One packet with the technical stuff such as all notices sent from USCIS, tax returns, I-864, etc. The second packet contained all bonafide marriage proof. We also had two photo albums stuffed full of photos with captions next to each photo explaining where we were/what we were doing!

She asked us standard easy questions like:

"Where did you guys get engaged"?

"How did you guys meet"?

"What's your love story", and that was pretty much it. The rest was small talk.

She also seemed to be looking for something in the file that the USCIS has on us and she said "Oh, we seem to be missing some stuff on you, such as your G-325a, etc." Then I said "Oh, well I submitted that" and she said "Oh yea I know, because otherwise you wouldn't have been approved for an interview".

The interviewer only glanced through the first packet and took a little longer look (by little longer look I mean about two minutes) at our second packet.

She was smiling the whole time, laughing, joking, making personal comments about each photo, etc. We also attached some birthday cards from my family as well as my extended family wishing my wife a Happy birthday. The cards were from a family birthday party we had for my wife and for others in my family.

Anyways, we glued the birthday cards to a piece of blank white paper and wrote a caption explaining who the cards were from, etc. The interviewer said

"I love how you guys glued the cards to a piece of paper! That's cute. You guys are so organized!"

She then spent about two minutes looking at the photo albums we had. She saw a picture of my wife and I in the snow and she asked my wife (who is from Thailand) "How did you like the snow? I bet it was really cold for you huh!"

Both my wife and I explained how she LOVES the snow and how surprisingly she wasn't as cold as I thought she'd be!

Then the interviewer asked us if she could keep some of the evidence we had in our second packet and I said "Of course, you can keep anything you want in our packets". She then said "Oh, well I can't keep everything because you'd definitely want your passports, social security cards and debit cards back!" We all had a laugh at that. Then she proceeded to take out some email messages from friends/family addressed to Pai. She took an email from my mother which was sent to everyone in our families personal email accounts including my wife's email address and mine (of course) inviting us all to Thanksgiving.

That's about all she took.

Then she said "Well everything looks great! You guys were really organized! But unfortunately I can't give you an approval right now because we're missing some documents regarding you (me). They probably just got lost somewhere along the way when they were transferred from NVC or the embassy or something, so it's our mistake not yours".

I then asked her what the documents were so I could prepare them if they weren't able to track them down and she said "Well, they're documents you wouldn't personally be able to obtain such as your original I-129f petitions, etc."

So then I asked her "Okay well out of curiosity, when you guys find these documents, will be get an approval", to which she responded "Yes! Well assuming nothing crazy happens or something!"

Then she handed us a paper with a checkmarked box the case is being continued due to further review. The only options available to check mark are "Fingerprints" "Security clearance" "Relating A-File" "Further review" and "Visa availability".

So anyways, she walked us out and the entire time she was extremely friendly, jovial and outgoing.

My question to you guys is have ANY of you ever heard of them misplacing papers, etc. or have any of you actually been in this situation before?

I'm freaking out because I just read a horror story and have read many regarding people having to wait for MONTHS or years to hear back from USCIS and the initial interviewer forgetting how simple their case was and rescheduling them for a following interview.

This case particularly had me freaking out!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=226994

Anyways, any information from you guys would be great!

Thanks a lot!

Yes, I have heard of this. Hope they did not lose your medical exam

Gary and Alla,

Why is it so bad if they lose the medical exam?

ALSO, I FORGOT TO MENTION that the interviewer TOOK my wife's I-94 from the passport. Was she supposed to take this?

[shellyalex 0]

Yeah

[Darnell 8,478]

ya, there's been stories here on VJ about the IO not finding stuff that SHOULD BE IN THE CASEFILE on interview day.

If it goes on for more than 30 days (IMO ) then set up an infopass appointment, and have 'that person' across the window initiate a document search. grrrr.

Congrats on the interview, and good luck with the rest of it !!

[Mountain Climber 186]

Congrats on the interview and good luck with getting your visa soon!!!

[Devkpaik 1]

Congrats on the interview and good luck with getting your visa soon!!!

Hey guys,

So I got a text message this morning from USCIS saying "Your case status has been updated. Please refer to USCIS.gov for details".

I went to check the USCIS site and it said...

Document production or Oath Ceremony

On November 4, 2009, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

This step applies to applications that result in an applicant receiving a card (such as a green card) or other document (such as a naturalization certificate, refugee travel documents or advance parole). Applications will be in this step from the time the order to produce the card/document is given until the card/document is produced and mailed to the applicant. You can expect to receive your card/document within 30 days of the approval of your application.

That's awesome! We're both really happy! I was reading last night about his USCIS doesn't update their site, but I guess they do haha!

[Nagishkaw 510]

Congratulations!

[Devkpaik 1]

Congratulations!

Thanks Nagishkaw!

[trillium13 84]

Yay!!! Congratulations!!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Congratulations! Good to know that they found the rest of your file . (And just in case you were still wondering, yes, they were supposed to take the I-94 - it is a good sign that you are headed to an approval).

[Devkpaik 1]

Congratulations! Good to know that they found the rest of your file . (And just in case you were still wondering, yes, they were supposed to take the I-94 - it is a good sign that you are headed to an approval).

Thank you very much guys, but I am not jumping overboard with this information until my wife gets the welcome notice in the mail, or the green card in the mail.

I was a bit thrown off by this because the interviewing officer said it would take about 2-3 weeks to hear back from them.

I then did a little bit of searching on the internet because I am a worry wort and always find new ways to worry myself and have found out the following information that maybe some of you will be able to shed some light on.

THIS IS MY EMAIL I WAS SENT

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: MSC0930815692

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Card production ordered.

On November 4, 2009, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Check My Case Status and Check Processing Times.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

I read there have been a lot of problems with the USCIS.gov system updates and that a lot of people who weren't current were receiving email messages from USCIS but in their email the "CURRENT STATUS" portion of the email says "Document mailed" as opposed to "Card Production Ordered".

Also, when they checked their status online it read something along the lines of

"On "DATE", 2009, we mailed a document to you, bla bla bla".

On mine it says :

Document production or Oath Ceremony

On November 4, 2009, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

This step applies to applications that result in an applicant receiving a card (such as a green card) or other document (such as a naturalization certificate, refugee travel documents or advance parole). Applications will be in this step from the time the order to produce the card/document is given until the card/document is produced and mailed to the applicant. You can expect to receive your card/document within 30 days of the approval of your application.

I am right now led to believe that if it says "we mailed you a document" that it could be anything, including an RFE, or nothing at all but a simple glitch in the system. A lot of the people who had posted had stated that they were NOT current and that they called USCIS and was told it was a glitch in their system, or that they were sent an RFE later, but people were saying that if it says in the email status "CASE STATUS: Card Production Ordered" and in the online status it says "We ordered a production of your new card", that it was INDEED referring to the production of the GREEN card.

Has anyone had any experience with these two separate messages?

Sorry to keep posting guys, my wife and I just got SUPER excited when I got a text today at 12:00 PM saying to check the status online as it has been updated then saw it said "Card production ordered" then received an email saying the same thing.

I am hoping it is the green card that has been ordered!!

Thanks so much!!!

[shellyalex 0]

Congratulations

You greencard is one it's way

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hey guys,

I posted our interview experience on Nov. 2nd but I was not too thorough with the experience and it was sort of jumbled, so I'm trying to do a better job to explain the situation, etc.

My wife and I had our interview on November 2nd, 2009 and it seemed to go really smooth (I hope it did, it seemed as though it went great haha! )

Anyways, we brought a BUNCH of things. We went above and beyond what was needed.

We prepared two different packets. One packet with the technical stuff such as all notices sent from USCIS, tax returns, I-864, etc. The second packet contained all bonafide marriage proof. We also had two photo albums stuffed full of photos with captions next to each photo explaining where we were/what we were doing!

She asked us standard easy questions like:

"Where did you guys get engaged"?

"How did you guys meet"?

"What's your love story", and that was pretty much it. The rest was small talk.

She also seemed to be looking for something in the file that the USCIS has on us and she said "Oh, we seem to be missing some stuff on you, such as your G-325a, etc." Then I said "Oh, well I submitted that" and she said "Oh yea I know, because otherwise you wouldn't have been approved for an interview".

The interviewer only glanced through the first packet and took a little longer look (by little longer look I mean about two minutes) at our second packet.

She was smiling the whole time, laughing, joking, making personal comments about each photo, etc. We also attached some birthday cards from my family as well as my extended family wishing my wife a Happy birthday. The cards were from a family birthday party we had for my wife and for others in my family.

Anyways, we glued the birthday cards to a piece of blank white paper and wrote a caption explaining who the cards were from, etc. The interviewer said

"I love how you guys glued the cards to a piece of paper! That's cute. You guys are so organized!"

She then spent about two minutes looking at the photo albums we had. She saw a picture of my wife and I in the snow and she asked my wife (who is from Thailand) "How did you like the snow? I bet it was really cold for you huh!"

Both my wife and I explained how she LOVES the snow and how surprisingly she wasn't as cold as I thought she'd be!

Then the interviewer asked us if she could keep some of the evidence we had in our second packet and I said "Of course, you can keep anything you want in our packets". She then said "Oh, well I can't keep everything because you'd definitely want your passports, social security cards and debit cards back!" We all had a laugh at that. Then she proceeded to take out some email messages from friends/family addressed to Pai. She took an email from my mother which was sent to everyone in our families personal email accounts including my wife's email address and mine (of course) inviting us all to Thanksgiving.

That's about all she took.

Then she said "Well everything looks great! You guys were really organized! But unfortunately I can't give you an approval right now because we're missing some documents regarding you (me). They probably just got lost somewhere along the way when they were transferred from NVC or the embassy or something, so it's our mistake not yours".

I then asked her what the documents were so I could prepare them if they weren't able to track them down and she said "Well, they're documents you wouldn't personally be able to obtain such as your original I-129f petitions, etc."

So then I asked her "Okay well out of curiosity, when you guys find these documents, will be get an approval", to which she responded "Yes! Well assuming nothing crazy happens or something!"

Then she handed us a paper with a checkmarked box the case is being continued due to further review. The only options available to check mark are "Fingerprints" "Security clearance" "Relating A-File" "Further review" and "Visa availability".

So anyways, she walked us out and the entire time she was extremely friendly, jovial and outgoing.

My question to you guys is have ANY of you ever heard of them misplacing papers, etc. or have any of you actually been in this situation before?

I'm freaking out because I just read a horror story and have read many regarding people having to wait for MONTHS or years to hear back from USCIS and the initial interviewer forgetting how simple their case was and rescheduling them for a following interview.

This case particularly had me freaking out!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=226994

Anyways, any information from you guys would be great!

Thanks a lot!

Yes, I have heard of this. Hope they did not lose your medical exam

Gary and Alla,

Why is it so bad if they lose the medical exam?

ALSO, I FORGOT TO MENTION that the interviewer TOOK my wife's I-94 from the passport. Was she supposed to take this?

Yes, they take the I-94, it is normal. You do not get to keep an I-94, even visitors turn them in when they leave the USA. It no longer has any value, it is expired. The I-797C (NOA1) from the I-485 is now her "permission" to be in the USA.

If they lost her medical you get to have a new one...at your expense.