marriage based green card interview

[chelseakhan 0]

i just got the letter in the mail for the aos interview (marriage based)its on 13th janurary at 12:45 pm ... i am the applicant my wife is the petitioner... i cam on f1 visa 8 years ago . met my wife in 2010 and got married in june 2011 now i have aos interview ...we have got wedding pictures and pictures with family and friends .. bank

statments for last six months joint bank account and joint lease . car insurance together what else document do i need to take regarding bona fide marriage.....

is it a good idea to take my lawyer with me or is just waist of money .. please any suggestion and advice would bw gr8 ... one more thing i am kind is of nervous

is it normal to be nervous or i am just being paranoid.?

[Little_My 464]

Is there any particular reason you feel you might need a lawyer present at the interview?

Being nervous is normal, I think everyone is nervous before the interview no matter how solid or simple their case seems to be. I know I was. Your evidence seems to be pretty thorough, I doubt you would need more. Except for the original marriage certificate of course. Just have all your documents in good order so you can easily find whatever the IO may ask for, remember to bring all originals of copies you submitted, and if you have an SSN number bring the card - they often ask for that.

Have you been an F1 the whole 8 years you were here, or did you fall out of status at some point? Overstay and unauthorized work will be overlooked as you are adjusting based on marriage to a USC, as long as you did not use anyone elses SSN or present yourself as a US citizen at any point during the years you've been here.

[ceadsearc 516]

Agree with Little_My. In terms of documents, the ones you have look good. The only other thing I recall being asked for by our IO was if we had copies of our receipts for our rings.

[akkk 1]

the reason i am being nervous because i have been out of status for a while now and have also been working illegally .. the reason i asked about the lawyer because i heard stories that some times IO ask lawyers to sit in the lobby while interviewing husband and wife if that happens with ujs then why take a lawyer .... i cant pay him 1500 just to sit in the lobby .

[ceadsearc 516]

Working illegally is overlooked for spouses of USCs as long as there arent other issues like claiming to be a USC to work. You probably don't need your lawyer there because honestly, he can't change the facts anyway.

[Pupsik 4]

sounds like you dont need a lawyer. We did it on our own and we had more issues than you do. Just relax and be yourselves. its more of a conversation than an interrogation.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

the reason i am being nervous because i have been out of status for a while now and have also been working illegally ..

Working without authorization is not being made an issue of at the AoS stage or thereafter.

What matters is that you did not claim to be a U.S. citizen (i.e., on the I-9 form), did not provide false documents, did not use somebody else's SSN, and that you did file your income tax return.

Again, the I.O. knows that you worked, so I would just add my income tax return to the package, which would pretty much eliminate any question from him or her if you filed. Not filing taxes is tax evasion, and while it's not directly an immigration issue, it's closely related.

[akkk 1]

Agree with Little_My. In terms of documents, the ones you have look good. The only other thing I recall being asked for by our IO was if we had copies of our receipts for our rings.

i didnt keep the reciept for wedding ring i bought for her .. but she just told me that she got the receipt somewhere for my ring that she bought it for me its been about 8 months when i bought it .. i'll go back to the store and see if they have that transaction in their record and i can get a copy of it

[ceadsearc 516]

i didnt keep the reciept for wedding ring i bought for her .. but she just told me that she got the receipt somewhere for my ring that she bought it for me its been about 8 months when i bought it .. i'll go back to the store and see if they have that transaction in their record and i can get a copy of it

It's not the end of the world if you don't have it, just a nice addition if you do.

[jojolicious 38]

We took our ring receipts to our interview but we were never asked for them. I don't think that's a biggie...

[chelseakhan 0]

ok here is the new problem i have pictures of us with family and friends in my computer i was going to get them printed from cvs in few days .. but last night my

niece spilled some soda on my laptop and i have lost all my data .. i am freaking out 23 days left in interview and all i have is the wedding album..

[Pupsik 4]

ok here is the new problem i have pictures of us with family and friends in my computer i was going to get them printed from cvs in few days .. but last night my

niece spilled some soda on my laptop and i have lost all my data .. i am freaking out 23 days left in interview and all i have is the wedding album..

im sure you can recover the data. open the laptop and let it dry out(take the battery out, take all the screws out and open the cover and remove any components that are attached to it. Let it air dry overnight. Use some alcohol on a Q-tip to remove any sticky residue. If all else fails you can bring it to a shop and they can pop out the hard drive and recover the data.

my wife did the same with her laptop and thats what I did. it wouldn't turn on and she thought it was toast. Took it all apart, let it dry, reassembled it and it fired right up.

Edited December 20, 2011 by Pupsik

[chelseakhan 0]

im sure you can recover the data. open the laptop and let it dry out(take the battery out, take all the screws out and open the cover and remove any components that are attached to it. Let it air dry overnight. Use some alcohol on a Q-tip to remove any sticky residue. If all else fails you can bring it to a shop and they can pop out the hard drive and recover the data.

my wife did the same with her laptop and thats what I did. it wouldn't turn on and she thought it was toast. Took it all apart, let it dry, reassembled it and it fired right up.

yeah i just called best buy i talk to the tech rep he told me the same thing ...it always happens with me ..at every important moment of my life some goes wrong . at my wedding i forgot her ring at the house .... she still pull my leg on that .... i hope every thing goes fine at GC interview ..

[Nina~ 431]

Just take your wedding album. I took my wedding album plus some extra printed pics, but the IO just wanted to look at the wedding album and didn't want any of the extra pics for the file.

[Pupsik 4]

Just take your wedding album. I took my wedding album plus some extra printed pics, but the IO just wanted to look at the wedding album and didn't want any of the extra pics for the file.

i disagree and say bring everything. Our IO didnt even look at our wedding album and only looked thorough our personal photo album. our theory was bring as much proof as we possibly could. when the IO asked for something, we kept handing paper upon paper until she said stop.