K2 Interview

RandyW · April 10, 2007

Well, on the trip to the USCIS office the translator fussed that she wasn't allowed to speak last time (at Jiaying's interview last year). So she grilled Jingyu on several questions in English - where do you work, where do you live, what's your phone number. Good practice as it turns out.

When we were called into the room, she had Jiaying and I sit up front, with Jingyu and the translator in the back. She fussed with the Acco clips for awhile, finally got them loose. She got our passports and ID's and looked first at them, then at the person to verify that we were the correct people.

She asked a few questions about our relationship, and did I really want to get married to someone I had known for only a week, how did we communicate, was his father okay with him being in the US, and so on.

"Do you have any proof that you are still living together?" I handed her a stack of bank statements, credit cards, car titles, licenses, insurance, etc.

Then she asked how Jiaying got to work, and found out that she has a car and drove to work every day. That seemed to eliminate any doubt there.

And she asked Jingyu some of the questions that had been reviewed earlier. Some had to be translated for him, most were answered in English.

Then, she asks, "How old are you?" TWENTY ONE. Then . . .

SILENCE (with a noticable Houston, we have a problem look on her face)

(more SILENCE)

and then "I need to look into it, but I think he needs to have been 18 when you were married". I pointed out that was for K-4's and did not apply to K-2's. She said she would have to look into it anyway. No hint of the 21 year old K-2 problem.

Finally, she said that she would lump the two files (Jiaying's and Jingyu's - Jiaying is still waiting on her FBI background check) together, and they would get their green cards at the same time.

And that we would be notified by mail if it turned out that he was ineligibile.

We are keeping our fingers crossed.