IR-1 Approved, very smooth process.

[DeadFish 1]

I am thankful for this community - you answered allot of our most stressful questions, visajourney.com is a fantastic resource and community.

 

With that, our journey to my wife's greencard is nearing full completion.  Yes, it did take almost an entire year  ( even though we lost 3 months to USCIS incorrectly putting half of our mailing address on their first letter of action to us. )

 

The interview in Taiwan was uneventful, the staff was friendly, it took about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

 

They asked questions about me (the husband and my parents), how we met, what are we going to do for work, all seemed pretty standard... only one minor trick question that my wife breezed through because the interviewer called my mom by her middle name... and asked if I met her.... my wife corrected her with the proper first name. 

 

If you are organized everything is very smooth:

 There were 3 checklists to deal with.. one being in mandarin we received in the mail, we had one envelope for what the mandarin checklist wanted and another for what the US embassy checklist online wanted... the third ( the  other online one is just really an overview, which is understandably so.)

 

The confusion is in both mandarin and the other checklist want the same items - which can make people nervous as to where is it located - in the envelope you put with the mandarin checklist of items.. or in whatever else you are carrying everything in.  This needs to be addressed, but thats the problem when you have two countries involved in immigration - no way around it.

Other small issue:

 

Online and checklists said that spouses are not to come to the interview, during the interview my wife was asked where I was?... ( down the street.)  I guess I could have gone inside if I wanted to. Glad, I went to starbucks instead and watched a movie. ( interviewer, said it would take too long for me to get there.)

 

Regardless, it was a great experience. 

 

Looking forward to selling all our stuff and flying to USA.

 

 

 

[KULtoATL 1,551]

Congratulations and kudos to your wife for acing the interview Have a safe journey back to Stateside.