AOS Interview on wednesday, Have some questions

[Infantry Grunt 0]

We have our upcoming AOS interview, and we have some questions about it.

My wife came here from Canada, as a visitor, we had no intention of marrying at the time. Long story short, we ended up getting married about 3 months later in the USA, and filed our i-130 and i-485.

Ive read some people took their ssn to the interview, my wife doesn't have an ssn is that fine? Does she need one or how does she end up getting one. She has her EAD card, but we never got her SSN from it because we just got it recently, we don't have time to get her SSN before the interview.

What all should i bring with to the interview, originals of everythign we have submitted, id's, photos, bank statements, lease agreements. Is there anything else?

The only forms we filed were the i-485 and what went with it, medical etc. the i-130, the i-765.

I read somehwere to bring a form DS-230, but we didnt do one. Is that for something else completly different or should i print that out.

Anything else I should know?

Interview is in south carolina.

[Hugglebuggles 60]

Congrats on the interview!

If you included all the documents with your I-485 application there is no extra paperwork to bring to the interview. The DS-230 is required at the visa stage, not the AOS stage. Did you receive a checklist with your interview letter? Just go over that and insure you have sent them everything on the list, and bring originals of any copied documents you sent them. I obsessed over that list a million times leading up to our interview!

At the interview I was asked if I had an SSN, I said yes and gave the IO the number. Your wife doesn't have one, so just say no and explain you didn't have the proper identification until very recently. I didn't have state ID when I went to my interview and had to explain to the IO why, but my answer was acceptable and he had no problem with it. If you couldn't get one, you couldn't get one right?

For relationship evidence, just submit what you have. We brought in bank statements from our joint savings and checking accounts, a letter from State Farm declaring me the beneficiary on his life insurance, documents showing joint car insurance and health insurance, and a phone bill showing a shared cell phone plan. The officer hardly looked at it and put it into our folder.

Overall, just be honest and confident and you should be just fine. Good luck!

[Krikit 1,165]

I'm going to move your question from the Canada forum to the AOS From Other Visa forum. You'll find a lot more members over there who have experience with this.

Good luck on the interview!

[Dakine10 5,452]

We have our upcoming AOS interview, and we have some questions about it.

My wife came here from Canada, as a visitor, we had no intention of marrying at the time. Long story short, we ended up getting married about 3 months later in the USA, and filed our i-130 and i-485.

Ive read some people took their ssn to the interview, my wife doesn't have an ssn is that fine? Does she need one or how does she end up getting one. She has her EAD card, but we never got her SSN from it because we just got it recently, we don't have time to get her SSN before the interview.

What all should i bring with to the interview, originals of everythign we have submitted, id's, photos, bank statements, lease agreements. Is there anything else?

The only forms we filed were the i-485 and what went with it, medical etc. the i-130, the i-765.

I read somehwere to bring a form DS-230, but we didnt do one. Is that for something else completly different or should i print that out.

Anything else I should know?

Interview is in south carolina.

Probably goes without saying, but if you knew her for a while before she came as a visitor, don't accidentally take any evidence that would lead USCIS to suspect that she did come here with the intent of getting married, like say pictures from a romantic ski trip 2 years ago or that kind of thing, or a big phone bill from the month before she came etc.

If you knew someone for a long time, even if they just came to visit without intent, the short time frame may lead USCIS to decide they did have intent.

[juliava 80]

Everything ok here?How was the interview?