Interviewer asked for items not on I 797C and did not pass because of it

[nadjaj 0]

We just had our interview and it did not go well. I'm really confused about what happened and I'm curious if this has happened to anyone else:

We went for our interview and we brought our I 797C, and everything listed under "You must bring the following items with you". We arrived early, and when we were called into the meeting the woman asked us general questions and then looked through our file and said, "want to hear the bad news first?" And my heart sank. She then said, that we did not have passport photos (which were not listed on the I 797C). My husband luckily had one with him but she said that since I didn't have any and the office had "lost" the additional passport photos that we had previously submitted, I would need to get some taken across the street.

She then said that my husband's medical was expired. We were both very confused by this because it was the medical he used to enter the country and then we sent in his medical information right after we got married and then they set this appointment. The I 797C stated that if the medical was already submitted, it was not needed for this appointment so we were very confused. Why would it matter if it were expired now, if it was already submitted? We had brought the copy of the previously submitted one, just in case, but the form said it wasn't needed.

She then said that our taxes were not previously submitted (at this point my head was swimming and I didn't even realize until we had left, that yes we had submitted this already, but it was "lost" from our file according to her), then she said that our previously submitted G25A form is no longer good (from a few months ago) and must be resubmitted. She said that if we had had all these forms, she would have approved us on the spot. Then after she told us were weren't approved, she went right back to interviewing us which was very unsettling, I was trying to be upbeat and answer the questions well all while I really wanted to cry.

So my question is, were other people asked for passport photos even though the I 797C did not request it. And were you asked for the medical again, and your 1040 again, and asked to resubmit your G25A? I'm just really frustrated because we would have brought all these things if we understood that it was needed, but based on the I 797C it did not appear that we needed to bring all these extra items.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Our AOS was pending 16 months before the interview and no none of it was asked for. Strange that they lost all of it. Maybe she didn't have time to find it.

[nadjaj 0]

Yeah, I have no idea. It was so weird that she was insisting only on the documents we had already submitted and said that she couldn't approve us. I was just so startled by the whole thing. Everything that I've read or watched about what would be asked for never mentioned any of the things she wanted. We're very frustrated.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

It is not unusual to not be instantly approved and it can take 2-4 weeks, just strange that she asked for those items.

I have never heard that a G325a is not good anymore unless you filled out an expired form when you submitted it initially.

For adjusting from a K1 one doesn't need a new medical if it was submitted within a year and no additional vaccs if the DS3025

is marked complete / waiver request. Some newbie IO's get it wrong.

If they lost it I can see it but sometimes they are too busy/lazy (pick one) to go through a big stack of papers to look for it if your

file was large. Ours was an enormous stack ( K1 file ) on her desk with added AOS and she said we do not have this or that

and she can't find something and I said oh yes it is there, we submitted it. Then she looked again and said ok I found it.

We weren't approved instantly and she said it can last a months until she is finished with our file.
It was a long interview, we were separated and asked questions for one hour each.

[TBoneTX 45,328]

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