Interview Experience - Salt Lake City, UT

[kieron2401 0]

Hi everyone,

This is my first post here, but I have been an avid viewer of this site for the past few months. So, I thought by me telling my story about my arrival/interview experience it may be able to help others the way I have been helped by some of the posts on this site. So here goes....

I arrived in the States in August '06 on a B2 Visa. I had a bit of trouble coming in through immigration at my P.O.E., and had my 1 year visa cut down to 6 months, with no Adjustment of Status or Extension of Stay stamped on my I-94 due to the fact that I only had a single fare and not a return. I had originally entered the U.S. to spend some time with my girlfriend. One thing led to another and we were married in December '06, so obviously I wasn't too confident when applying for an AOS due to the circumstances that made entering the States look like I had intent to stay, even though that was never the case. After we were married, we decided to hire an attorney and find out what our options were. Our attorney told us that we had a strong case and that I should file for an AOS which was back in early February '07.

Fast Forward to today;

Our appointment was at 8.00am in Salt Lake City. We arrived there at around 7.50am and met with our attorney in the waiting room. The attorney spent most of his time checking through our folder and re-arranging the documents we had from most important to least important. Then we waited to be called in for the interview. We were finally called at around 8.25am. On first impressions, the officer who was interviewing us seemed to appear a little unfriendly, but as the interview wore on we found that wasn't the case at all. He turned out to be an extremely nice guy. Me and my wife were both sworn in, then we took a seat. The officer spent the first 10 minutes or so looking through his paperwork, not really speaking, just asking confirmation of D.O.B.'s, address, etc. After that he took our folder and browsed through it, taking my copy of my arrest record from back in England and my I-94. Then he asked me if i'd entered the country with the intent to marry, to which I said no. I provided him with a letter from my previous employer which stated that they expected me to return from my 6 month sabbatical in January to resume my postion. After that he asked a couple more questions, like how did you and your wife meet, what type of business did my wife own and then went on to making small talk with my wife about Web Design. While the officer was talking to my wife, he reached behind him, pulled out a pink slip which he then put in front of me and said "welcome to the United States, you have been approved." He reminded me of the conditions of the Permanent Residency and then said that I would receive my Green Card in the mail by next week. I must say, it wasn't how i'd imagined it at all, and the only advice I can give to future interviewers is to just to go to your interview and be honest. Good luck to everyone going through this process and thanks to everyone else for providing some great advice.

[StormnRolly 0]

Congratulations.... a big relief on that being finished eh.... Take care,

Kristina

[Jashley820 0]

Wow that sounded like it went as smoothly as possible! Congrats!

[Emancipation 2]

Great news!

[John & Annie 0]

That is a great story and one that will probably help a lot of people.

Congrats!!!

[~krakatoa~ 27]

Great post! Congratulations!

[TracyLuis 0]

Congratulations....now you can relax!