The inevitable 'day before the interview' checklist

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So, interview tomorrow. Here is what we are bringing. If i'm forgetting something please please please let me know!

- Appointment letter

- Emails back and forth from us before we got married

- Flight details of flights across the Atlantic (3 or 4)

- Letters we had sent eachother

- Letters from my new niece and nephew to me

- Joint bank statements (Irish)

- Pay checks for both of us (Irish)

- 50+ Photographs

- I-864 Joint sponsor copy

- Joint sponsor BC

- Joint sponsor Passport pic

- Joint sponsor tax for last three years

- Joint sponsor earnings/bank details

- I-130 copy

- G-325A x2 (Blank just incase needs filled out again)

- Marriage cert photocopy

- Birth Certs photocopies

- Police certs photocopies

- Invoices for wedding charges / photographer / hire

- NOA's / Fee receipts

- 2x letters from former employees of my wife in america saying she had a job there when she returned

- Letter from wife's parents agreeing to rent their basement to us

- 5x character references from people we know in the states

- Medical Xray

- 12x14 Brown envelope with 8E worth of stamps...

Anything else?

Thank you all for the help so far!

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Oh, and two Passport photographs of me!

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Oh, and two Passport photographs of me!

Anyone!?!?

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Anyone!?!?

[hdouthit 1]

I noticed no one replied but your timeline says approved. I take it that it all went well?

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I noticed no one replied but your timeline says approved. I take it that it all went well?

In at 1.00 PM, out at 2.15 PM with approval!

[MrsOO 7]

In at 1.00 PM, out at 2.15 PM with approval!

Congrats!!! would love to hear more details as we are going through dublin too!

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Congrats!!! would love to hear more details as we are going through dublin too!

Well ask away I'll see how i can help.

Arrived at about 11, went to get a coffee nearby, kept an eye on the gate though. At 12.20 started to queue and we we let in at 12.30, through security. You should only bring the following with you

- Yourself

- Your documents

Leave phone/keys/drinks/makeup/food etc elsewhere. Keys/phone can be left at the front desk, but the less hassle the better in my eyes.

Once you're in you go get a ticket and sit and wait. We were called at 1pm. We were the first.

We went forward and were asked about our co-sponsor, the lady was nice enough, talked through where we were married and the official documents such as wedding cert and birth cert (this was all already with the NVC) She routed through all the stuff which had come from the NVC, asking me about it, "Is this the co sponsor tax returns?" or "Who is (insert co sponsor's wife's name)?" She also asked me to give her the envelope with the 8 euro of stamps. At the end she asked for the copies I had of the I-864 - i could see clearly that she had the copy which had been sent to the NVC in her hand, but she asked for the copy i had brought with me also...She asked for my medical results.

We sat back down and waited for the interview, we were called at 2.05.

The lady was very nice, asked us

- How did you meet?

- When did you get engaged?

(never asked for any documented evidence / proof of relationship despite us having emails/phone records 50+ photographs/invoices from wedding/bank details dual account/letters of support (5)

She then congratulated us as we'd had a recent wedding anniversary and advised we'd been approved and the visa would be with us in 2 weeks.

TIPS:

Bring copies of EVERYTHING you had sent to the NVC document wise. Their letter to us said they had EVERYTHING already there, yet they requested the same documents again, so i'm glad we brought them.

Get their early and be the first people through, in and out in 2 hours! Ideal!