AOS interview question

[Honeybunny818 0]

I just finished filling out my AOS paperwork about to send it off once my husband gets back from deployment. I was just curious of all the things I should take the interview and what sort of questions will they be asking us?

[Leo7777 243]

Here is some info on interviews:

http://www.visajourney.com/content/exampleq

and

From a poster here on VisaJourney

Just sharing my experience in the hope that someone will find it useful.

I (USC) and my wife met about 2 years ago, married in (country) about 1.5 years ago,

traveled to the USA and decided to stay permanently about 7 months ago.

We filed for AOS based on marriage in April 2014; forms 130 and 485.

We received our interview appointment in mid October (for today -- mid November).

We arrived in the San Bernardino USCIS office 1 hour early. I wore a suit and my wife wore a nice dress.

We were called into an office together after about an hour and a half (30min after apt time).

We were asked to raise our right hand and were sworn to tell the truth.

The officer asked my wife to verify all of her contact information and checked her original birth

certificate and marriage certificate. Then she asked my wife all of the Yes/No questions on the

I-485 like "have you ever been a gang member" and so forth (all "no" answers) even though she

already had those answers in writing.

I was asked my name and DOB.

Then the officer said "tell me how you two came to be together" which wasn't directed toward a

particular one of us. I jumped in to answer because I knew my wife was so stressed she was about

to have a heart attack. I made an effort to speak confidently and in a concise manner. I stated

the following: The date and cicumstances of how we met, the date we had our first date, date of

our engagement, date of our wedding, date we last entered the USA.

I had prepared a detailed file showing how I was earning money and supporting my wife (I was her sponsor)

but I was never asked to prove anything like that. The officer simply asked "so, you have been the one

supporting your wife this whole time, right?" I answered "yes" and that was all that was discussed about finances.

The officer then asked me to provide her with any documentation I had showing we had a "real" marriage.

I had originals and copies but she just wanted the copies and didn't much look at the originals. I spoke

somewhat quickly in an effort to explain each item before being cut off (I wasn't). I provided her with

all of the following items:

- Joint tax return

- joint credit card

- joint bank account

- tags from flowers I had sent to her when we first started courting.

- B-day and anniversary cards to us from family (2)

- joint lease

- jointly owned car registration

- joint car insurance

- disneyland annual passes

- cell phone bill with both names on it

- reservations for birthday activity (email)

- Used concert tickets with names on them

- Pictures: I cherry-picked about 30 of our best pictures that showed us doing various things over

a long time (family dinners, birthdays, disneyland, etc.); I had nice color sheets made at WalMart

with 8 pictures printed per 8x10" page and provided those instead of black and white copies. The

officer asked me to explain what was going on in some of the pictures (I had written captions in

magic marker).

Having reviewed everything above, the officer said she would be right back and walked out of the room.

She returned with a "Congratulations you are a permanent resident" letter and told us we were approved

and to expect the card in the mail within 90 days. We couldn't have been happier and were very surprised

at how easy it was.

Basically, I would say that if you prepare well and arrive organized (and really are married) the

interview is very low stress and very easy. We were done in about 20 minutes. We had stressed about

the interview but there really was no reason for it.

Hope this helps someone -- I read a ton of descriptions like this on VisaJourney that helped me a lot.

Thanks to everyone else who shared and gave me advice along the way!

[Mavisgrind 1]

My wife and I had our interview some time ago but it was a lot like Leo7777. We brought original copies of all documents (birth certificates, passports, tax returns, bank statements, invoices and bills, insurance documents, joint property titles, wedding photos and personal photos, etc. We actually had two shopping bags full of documents. We had also spent the previous couple of weeks quizzing each other to make sure that we would answer similarly to most questions. I now know where everything is in the kitchen and what color everything is (I didn't even know that when I lived by myself before we were married!)

The first thing that happened when we were called in for the interview was that we were sworn in just like Leo7777. Then the interviewer asked a number of questions just confirming what was on our forms. He also took some of the documents (passports, birth certificates, etc.) to make copies of. He brought them back and gave us the originals. Then he asked us the usual questions - how did we meet, how long had we known each other before we decided to get married, where did we work. I think I answered a bit more often than my wife but we both spoke for ourselves.

After that the interviewer left for a bit and came back with the "Congratulations" letter and I think he stamped her passport. He never actually asked to see any of our ancillary documentation. I actually told him I was a bit disappointed that he hadn't asked (I think my wife just about fainted then) and so he was nice enough to let me show him some of the photos. : )

I think that if you go in prepared, even if you may not have as much documentation as some others might have, and if you really seem fond of each other (I think we held hands during the entire interview) that you don't need to worry.

Best regards