AOS APPROVED!

onesassygirl · March 22, 2007

Hello all,

I haven't been posting in a VJ for a while but I just thought I'd share my interview experience.

We arrived 10 minutes before our scheduled time of 8:30 am. (Husband and I took the wrong exit on the freeway and kicked ourselves because we'd already been to that office twice so we should have known better!). The security guard took our interview notice and handed it to someone at the info counter while we sat ourselves in the little waiting area. We sat and waited for nearly 30 minutes, then the door to the inner offices opened and a lady called out my name.

She took us to her office and were sworn in before we were told to take a seat. She opened my file and asked me my name, address and DOB. Then she went through that list of things asking if I'd committed a crime ever since entering the States, been a part of a Communist party, will engage in polygamy, yadda yadda yadda. To which I all answered "no" to.

Then she asked me a few questions about our wedding, and asked Husband a few questions about himself (where he was born, where he worked, etc.)

And then she asked if we had any joint accounts of any sort since after being married. I gave her joint bank account statements, a utility bill with both our names on it, a letter from my husband's employer stating that I was a beneficiary on his company life and health insurance, a letter from the management of our apartment complex stating that I'd been living with him since so-and-so date and that we'd applied for a lease renewal together (which is currently pending a credit report check). I also gave her a receipt (showing the same address) from the optometrist my husband and I got our eyes checked at together and where we bought glasses and contacts from.

After all that, she asked if we had any questions. Of course I asked, "Are we approved today?" and "Yes" was her answer! I asked her if I'd get a stamp in my passport and she had said no, that the card should arrive in 2 weeks. But that if I had to travel out of the country on an emergency, that I could get an Infopass to get my passport stamped. She advised me to do an Infopass if my card does not arrive in 3 weeks.

I surrendered my EAD card since she did not ask for it. She gave me the impression that I didn't need to... she said that all they'd do to it was destroy it. She didn't ask me for my I-693A Vaccination Supplement (I had originally submitted a DS-3025 with my application). She also didn't ask me for my updated I-864, which was a bummer because I had stressed so much about getting all the supporting documents together. The original I-864 only had Husband's 2005 income tax return and W2 as the supporting document.

And she also didn't even ask to see the photo album I had nicely put together.

All in all, the experience wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Sure I came over-prepared, but I'd rather be that than under-prepared!