Interview Questions

[fullyawake 2]

Hmmm. I've read hundreds of possible questions that the Consular could ask my fiancée during her interview. Several question I find baffling.

Like:

What is your fiancé's religion?

What are the names of your fiancé's siblings?

I'm baffled because I never answered these questions in any of the paperwork that I have submitted. Ever. It just seems odd because how could they possibly verify my fiancée's answer. Why ask a question that they don't know the answer to?

[clive7832 2]

I BELIEVE YOU FILLED THOSE INFORATION ON G-325 I GUESS, BIOGRAPHICAL DATA FPRM

[Shirezu 5]

Hmmm. I've read hundreds of possible questions that the Consular could ask my fiancée during her interview. Several question I find baffling.

Like:

What is your fiancé's religion?

What are the names of your fiancé's siblings?

I'm baffled because I never answered these questions in any of the paperwork that I have submitted. Ever. It just seems odd because how could they possibly verify my fiancée's answer. Why ask a question that they don't know the answer to?

It's more just to see how you respond. If you reply that you don't know those things then they'll probably believe the relationship isn't genuine.

[StarGirl 13]

One might expect to hear all kind of unexpected questions from CO. I would opt for telling a straight: "I am not sure of name of the third cousin of his father's the first wife" rather than making up a name and then test my memory under stress of interview should CO come back to the question in a few minutes to see if I give the same answer. Keep it simple, don't make up stuff, be honest, and learn as much as you can while preparing for interview to avoid unnecessary "I don't know" answers to the minimum.

[baron555 934]

Hmmm. I've read hundreds of possible questions that the Consular could ask my fiancée during her interview. Several question I find baffling.

How so? Don't you think that you would have talked about this information to a person you intend to marry?....regardless if you wrote the info on a USCIS form or not?

Like:

What is your fiancé's religion?

What are the names of your fiancé's siblings?

I'm baffled because I never answered these questions in any of the paperwork that I have submitted. Ever. It just seems odd because how could they possibly verify my fiancée's answer. Why ask a question that they don't know the answer to?

What you don't know is that USCIS and Embassy have access to information about you that even you don't know!

Also some COs like to ask purposefully incorrect questions, just to gauge the interviewee's response.

Edited September 11, 2012 by baron555

[nessmj77 6]

They are just asking questions to see how much your fiancée knows about you. The more times she says she doesn’t know something could raise a reg flag. They want to see if she’s being honest, quick or slow to answer questions, and/or mumbling answers like she’s making something up or possibly lying about it. They might ask the same question in a different way multiple times to see if her answer is the same every time. Or they might make up something that they said you said to see if you’re giving accurate information or correcting their errors.

For example, during my fiancé’s interview. They asked when we got engaged. My fiancé said in February of 2012. Then later during the interview, the officer said, so you said you got engaged in March, when was the last time you saw your fiancée? My fiancé replied by saying, I said we got engaged in February, not March. So they might try to trick her in that sense.

[fullyawake 2]

@baron555: They know my religion??? They know when we plan to get married? Or if we plan to have kids?? I'm telling you they ask questions that they don't know the answer to

Maybe I put my religion on a form when I was in the Army 20 years ago. I doubt those records still exist .. maybe my DD-214 is still in some archive somewhere..

I was just curious. My fiancée knows these answers. No, they don't ask those questions on the G-325 .. they only ask for the mother and father.. but anyway. Thanks everybody. Probably more to see if you say "I don't know."