AOS - Philadelphia District Office - Successful

[chuckandkim 0]

Dear all,

GREEN means GO!!! We got it!

Thank you for all who have been supporting, advising, constructive criticism, coaching and reminding Kim and I that VJ is a family who loves you no matter what

Kim and I arrived at Philadelphia District Office at 8:45AM, found a street parking on the side street, awesome, costs $1.25 for 2 hours We’ve gone through the metal detector, have our duffle bag scanned, then took the elevator up to the 3rd Floor, handed in our Interview Appointment letter, the clerk stamped our letter (8:50AM) and gave it back to us with a GREEN instruction sheet to how to get to the actual interview room.

We go back down the 1st floor, proceed thru the InfoPass area, and walk up to the Mezzanine level where the actual interview will be. There was a security guard who sitting right at the top of the staircase when we approach the Mezzanine, directing us to take a seat in these roles of dirty old chairs outside the two small offices.

Waited for 10 more minutes, a female Hispanic USCIS officer walked out from her office, collecting our appointment letter and the "green" instruction slip with her and returns to her office. There were 4 couples including us, sitting in the waiting area. She then called in her first case, a Russian couple; they were in and out for no more than 10 minutes. Second couple, supposedly us, nope, a Cambodian couple, who came after us, in and out no more than 10 minutes. Now it was really our turn, but nope, she called an Indian/Sheik couple in her office. This became very interesting. Within 5 minutes, She took the husband outside, grabbed a chair from the waiting room, pulled it across the room to the far corner, instructed the Indian husband to sit there and wait for her to come back. Now she returned to her office and continue the interview with the wife and their lawyer (yes, this couple had a lawyer with them and an old man came along with them to the interview, not sure why, but I noticed the husband and wife did not sit side by side, the Lawyer was sitting between them)

The second male Caucasian officer came out from his office, after already approved 3 cases and turned away one case because the couple LOST their AOS Interview Letter, asking the other office to give him our appointment letter and file so he can conduct the interview. Mind you, the female office was still interviewing the India wife in her office (20 minutes passed). The male officer called Kim and I in his office, sat us down and started firing:

- What is your name? (who me or Kim, I was wondering) Kim answered the answer.

- How did you two meet? Kim answered again

- Have you ever been married to anyone? We both answered NO

- Have YOU ever married to anyone? Question was directed toward KIM

- Have you received any welfare or become public charge since you arrived in the US? Kim wasn’t sure what the hell welfare was… I explained and she answered NO

- What is your social security number? Kim couldn’t remember but showed him her SSN Card.

- Do you have any children? (what the hell? We both were irritated by now) We answered NO

- Anywhere in the world? We answered, not that we know off (laughing)

- Where do you work? I answered

- What do you do? I answered

- How much you make a year? I answered

- Any bonus? I answered

- So how much you make after bonus? I answered

- Where do you work? (asked Kim) Kim answered,

- What do you do? (asked Kim) Kim answered

- Do YOU have any children? (asked this question again) Kim answered NO

- Do you have… your marriage certificate? We gave him our certified copy; he returned it and asked for a PHOTOCOPY of it.

- When were you born? Kim answered

- When did you get married? Kim answered

- Do you have any “Health Insurance”, “Life Insurance”, “Bank Statement”, “Tax Returns”, “Credit Cards” or ANYTHING to show me? We gave him Health Insurance document, Tax returns, Bank Statement, and credit cards.

- Do you have an Employment letter? I gave him one

- Do you have any pay-stub? I gave him 10

- Do you have any pictures? We gave him 20 pages with 4 photos printed on each page, on regular paper from our digital photos “vault” at home. He flipped through, no commend, but ask “CAN I KEEP THEM?”, we answered “SURE”

- Your green card will be mailed to your home address within a “couple weeks”

- Good Luck! We packed our stuff and left his office.

Ok, this seems like a lot of question? Yes it was a lot, but he did them all within 8 minutes (I timed it). The interesting part is that he didn’t bother to look at us. He just stamped away in our 3 inches thick of files from previous (stuff we sent in before and from the famous BROWN envelope, I recognized some stuff from 2004 when I sent in with the I-129F), checked off stuff in our file with his red-ink pen, clicked and more clicking on his computer mouse while staring at the computer screen. He finally looked up and told us GOOD LUCK at the end. He was very busy clicking, stamping and checking off stuff from our pile of papers from the last 2 years.

We are now waiting for Kim’s GC to arrive, should be any day now…. I checked my Online status, is it normal to have the following message:

Case Status

The status for this Receipt Number cannot be found at this time in this automated system. Please check your case receipt number to see if it is correct. If you have questions or concerns about your case status, please contact the National Customer Service Center.

National Customer Service Center (800) 375-5283

The case was “touched” yesteready 3/8 and now it disappeared.

If you know what happens please share

Again, THANK YOU THANK YOU...

[john_and_marlene 162]

yay

[pax 0]

Congratulations! I'm glad to hear a Philly story.

And yes, from what I've read, approved I-485s do drop out of the system briefly while the welcome letters and green cards are generated, so nothing to worry about.

[raymaga 25]

Congrats on a successful AOS interview.

The Green Card should arrive in less than two weeks.

[zyggy 9]

Congrats on a successful AOS interview.

The Green Card should arrive in less than two weeks.

Yep... right after our interview, I checked on the online status and the same message appeared. So it's normal when one has been approved. It should be about 2 weeks to get your GC...

[Marie1123 0]

congrats. I wish mine would disappear from the system.

[Dixie_Peach 1]

yay for the GC

[bettenan 1]

Dear all,

GREEN means GO!!! We got it!

Thank you for all who have been supporting, advising, constructive criticism, coaching and reminding Kim and I that VJ is a family who loves you no matter what

Kim and I arrived at Philadelphia District Office at 8:45AM, found a street parking on the side street, awesome, costs $1.25 for 2 hours We’ve gone through the metal detector, have our duffle bag scanned, then took the elevator up to the 3rd Floor, handed in our Interview Appointment letter, the clerk stamped our letter (8:50AM) and gave it back to us with a GREEN instruction sheet to how to get to the actual interview room.

We go back down the 1st floor, proceed thru the InfoPass area, and walk up to the Mezzanine level where the actual interview will be. There was a security guard who sitting right at the top of the staircase when we approach the Mezzanine, directing us to take a seat in these roles of dirty old chairs outside the two small offices.

Waited for 10 more minutes, a female Hispanic USCIS officer walked out from her office, collecting our appointment letter and the "green" instruction slip with her and returns to her office. There were 4 couples including us, sitting in the waiting area. She then called in her first case, a Russian couple; they were in and out for no more than 10 minutes. Second couple, supposedly us, nope, a Cambodian couple, who came after us, in and out no more than 10 minutes. Now it was really our turn, but nope, she called an Indian/Sheik couple in her office. This became very interesting. Within 5 minutes, She took the husband outside, grabbed a chair from the waiting room, pulled it across the room to the far corner, instructed the Indian husband to sit there and wait for her to come back. Now she returned to her office and continue the interview with the wife and their lawyer (yes, this couple had a lawyer with them and an old man came along with them to the interview, not sure why, but I noticed the husband and wife did not sit side by side, the Lawyer was sitting between them)

The second male Caucasian officer came out from his office, after already approved 3 cases and turned away one case because the couple LOST their AOS Interview Letter, asking the other office to give him our appointment letter and file so he can conduct the interview. Mind you, the female office was still interviewing the India wife in her office (20 minutes passed). The male officer called Kim and I in his office, sat us down and started firing:

- What is your name? (who me or Kim, I was wondering) Kim answered the answer.

- How did you two meet? Kim answered again

- Have you ever been married to anyone? We both answered NO

- Have YOU ever married to anyone? Question was directed toward KIM

- Have you received any welfare or become public charge since you arrived in the US? Kim wasn’t sure what the hell welfare was… I explained and she answered NO

- What is your social security number? Kim couldn’t remember but showed him her SSN Card.

- Do you have any children? (what the hell? We both were irritated by now) We answered NO

- Anywhere in the world? We answered, not that we know off (laughing)

- Where do you work? I answered

- What do you do? I answered

- How much you make a year? I answered

- Any bonus? I answered

- So how much you make after bonus? I answered

- Where do you work? (asked Kim) Kim answered,

- What do you do? (asked Kim) Kim answered

- Do YOU have any children? (asked this question again) Kim answered NO

- Do you have… your marriage certificate? We gave him our certified copy; he returned it and asked for a PHOTOCOPY of it.

- When were you born? Kim answered

- When did you get married? Kim answered

- Do you have any “Health Insurance”, “Life Insurance”, “Bank Statement”, “Tax Returns”, “Credit Cards” or ANYTHING to show me? We gave him Health Insurance document, Tax returns, Bank Statement, and credit cards.

- Do you have an Employment letter? I gave him one

- Do you have any pay-stub? I gave him 10

- Do you have any pictures? We gave him 20 pages with 4 photos printed on each page, on regular paper from our digital photos “vault” at home. He flipped through, no commend, but ask “CAN I KEEP THEM?”, we answered “SURE”

- Your green card will be mailed to your home address within a “couple weeks”

- Good Luck! We packed our stuff and left his office.

Ok, this seems like a lot of question? Yes it was a lot, but he did them all within 8 minutes (I timed it). The interesting part is that he didn’t bother to look at us. He just stamped away in our 3 inches thick of files from previous (stuff we sent in before and from the famous BROWN envelope, I recognized some stuff from 2004 when I sent in with the I-129F), checked off stuff in our file with his red-ink pen, clicked and more clicking on his computer mouse while staring at the computer screen. He finally looked up and told us GOOD LUCK at the end. He was very busy clicking, stamping and checking off stuff from our pile of papers from the last 2 years.

We are now waiting for Kim’s GC to arrive, should be any day now…. I checked my Online status, is it normal to have the following message:

Case Status

The status for this Receipt Number cannot be found at this time in this automated system. Please check your case receipt number to see if it is correct. If you have questions or concerns about your case status, please contact the National Customer Service Center.

National Customer Service Center (800) 375-5283

The case was “touched” yesteready 3/8 and now it disappeared.

If you know what happens please share

Again, THANK YOU THANK YOU...

It looks like every interview is different. As I said before, our interviewer didn't ask most of those questions, except the standard are you are terrorist questions and he asked Richard if he had kids (yes...grown) and if he planned on bringing them to the US (no). He also asked for updated proof of living together. No insurance or anything like that. Then a little chit-chat and then the UNEXPECTED.... I never approve at the interview BUT tell you friends and family that the interview went VERY well.

On 3-6 the online status was touched and had disappeared. Yesterday I woke up to a 3/7 touch and it reappeared with the message we were waiting for ......approved and your green card has been ordered.

All I can say is wheeew.

[chuckandkim 0]

Bettenan,

YES, I forgot these questions

- Are you a terrorist? NO

- Were you working for any terrorist organization? NO

Funny!

[rbhigday 0]

Congrats

[kerewin21 2]

Congrats! I hope the card arrives soon!

[eau_xplain 2]

Congratulations chuck and kim!!

Yes, the "disappearance" of your case status means that they are now processing Kim's gc and you should see it soon!

[den_y2005 0]

congrats

[Peggy 1]

Congrats Chuck and Kim

[Permanent Ban 0]

Chuck & Kim,

Congrats