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| San Francisco CA |  Review #6221 on June 17, 2010: |
Winterjade_SF
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: Naturalization
Interview in San Francisco 16 June 2010... here's what happened:
Arrived around 2:05, interview scheduled for 2:15pm.
* Was given a passport application and was instructed to read the top sheet and complete the applications at home.
* Waiting room sparsely populated and very quiet. I remember waiting in this room for my AOS in 2007 - back then, my appt. was in the morning and it was a lot more crowded.
* I & my husband waited until 2:35/ 2:40pm or so until I was called in.
* My interviewer greeted me warmly and apologized for keeping me waiting so for long, murmuring something about running very behind. She swore me in, and proceeded to go through my application very fast - asking me to confirm the information in my application (name, where I live, who I live there with, SSN, etc...). She confirmed the length of my marriage and the anniversary date of my permanent residency. She seemed very harried and definitely was rushing, and kept apologizing since she was occasionally seized by coughing fits... She asked me to turn over my "evidence" but ended up just confirming that I had brought my husband's US passport, my passports, my green card and that I had already provided copies of all our tax returns for the past 3 years, and she also confirmed that a copy of our lease was already in the application.
Finally - the test questions:
* What does the Cabinet of the President do?
* What did the Declaration of Independence do?
* We elect a Senator for how many years?
* Name one of the branches of gvt.
* How many justices are there on the Supreme Court?
* If both the President and Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
My written test:
I was asked to read, "When is Columbus Day" and to write: "Columbus Day is in October."
And, that was it - she congratulated me and said, "wish all my interviews were like you" or something like that... she gave me a piece of paper which indicated that I had passed English, History & Gvt tests, and:
"Congratulations! Your application has been recommended for approval. At this time, it appears that you have established your eligibility for naturalization. If final approval is granted, you will be notified when and where to report for the Oath Ceremony."
| | | San Francisco CA | Review #6095 on May 19, 2010: |
perhonen
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My interview was 17th May 2010. A office was easy to find. We did use Bart so we didn't need to worry about the parking.
After the security we waited about 15 extra minutes. A interview was easy and short, about 15 minutes. He only wanted to see my passport, my husbands drivers license and some pictures of wedding. He was not interested to see a rental agreements or other documents. He did ask some questions like about social security number and home address, how did we meet, my earlier trips to Usa, how i get along with his parents, what kind wedding was and how many people was there and where we did go for our honeymoon. We did not get approved right there because he was not done reading my application but i saw next day online that it was approved. Now i am waiting for paper notice of approving and also actual Green card. Easy experience.
| | | San Francisco CA | Review #5379 on December 10, 2009: |
Ellsinlove
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Our I/O was super nice (& great to chat with)! We were called in right on time for our 9:05 interview appointment time. Before we could have a seat she had us both stand, raise our right hands & do the oath to tell the truth. We sat & the first thing she asked my husband who is from Jamaica was, "How's the weather?" and he of course answered, "COLD!" which made her laugh. She explained she was a Florida gal so she knew what he was going through coming from a warm place to a cold place. She then explained that there would be two portions to the interview, the first would be HIS interview & all about him, the second, about our marriage. God was smiling on us this day & we had the good fortune to get her because since her husband is also from the Caribbean, she already had a good understanding of some of the things we were telling her. The very first thing she wanted was his EAD & his California ID. We handed that over & then she proceeded to go over the information on the I-485 (as seems pretty standard during the interviews) & asked about his address which he knew except for the zip code. Again, seeing that she knows how things work in the Caribbean (many people don't have specific home addresses or things like zip codes), she was very understanding that he didn't have that memorized yet. He did struggle with a few of the answers regarding dates (even his own birthday) & she allowed me to rephrase or re-ask the question(s) so that he'd understand & answer correctly without me giving him the answer. He was VERY nervous at first & she asked him if he wanted to step outside for a minute to calm his nerves & he declined but asked her to take time with him. Another question he struggled on was WHEN he entered the country & she even gave him a choice of a few months. She said, "June, July or August?" and he quickly came back with, "I got married in August, I can't forget that!" She laughed a little & I said, "I know you know this, just think a minute....did you get here in June, July, or August?" and he finally blurted out, "OH, JUNE!"  She then proceeded through the information about me & his daughter & I provided her with a copy of his daughter's birth certificate. Next came the long list of questions about any past crimes or future intent (which is kind of funny because even if someone had intent, I wonder who would really admit it...gotta love the U.S. gov!). He answered NO to everything & wasn't even sure what a 'communist' was when that question came up. She had marked a few additions/changes to his form & once that review was done, explained what they were & he signed the stamp she put on the form acknowledging those changes. During that initial review, he told where his parents were & explained he'd recently met his father who he'd never known since we discovered he lived in the same state we were in & not even that far. Somehow, we also got to talking about the things he misses & most of that was the FOOD! It seemed like we spent at least as much time chatting with her about the island life as we did interviewing. We even had to be mindful of the time we were taking knowing she had interviews waiting because we were enjoying talking to her. After his interview, she then began to ask us about our marriage, directing many of the questions to him. He answered where we got married & I confirmed & ever-so-slightly expanded on the info. She asked what our living situation was & if anyone lived with us. I explained we rented an apartment & when she asked again who was in our household I answered, "Just the two of us...and some raccoons [that like to visit]." She asked what I did for work & asked if he was working & we explained he was going to school & told her about my job & that I went to college part-time & almost done with my AA. She even asked if we were trying to have kids yet & we said not yet but will before I get much older. It was nice when she told us about her two young children & that she is an older mom...I told her that was reassuring. Finally, we got to the part where she asked if there were any documents I'd like to submit. (The remainder is coming tomorrow....just realized it's 5:00 & I have to get to class!)
| | | San Francisco CA | Review #5189 on November 4, 2009: |
supermoth
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We walked in about 10 minutes early for a 1:25 appointment for Angelo's AOS/green card interview. We were called in no later than 1:30pm. Officer Quezon was super friendly, asked us a few questions about how we met and our life together, mostly to corroborate what we had written in our applications. He gave us good advice for what to do to prepare to remove conditions in two years. He gave Angelo his approval letter, and we were out the door in 20 minutes!
| | | San Francisco CA | Review #4929 on September 3, 2009: |
Koakland
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Yesterday Jeremy and I went to the SF USCIS office for his AOS interview. Our appointment was at 1:55pm but we arrived around 1:30pm. The office was very nice; not your typical 1970s, 1980s shabby government office décor. We turned in our appointment letter, showed the receptionist our passports and waited in the lobby for about 50 mins (about 20 – 30 mins after our 1:55pm appointment time). The office was fairly busy – they were calling people in every 7 – 10 minutes.
Eventually an officer called Jeremy’s name and I followed in. The officer was very very formal. I smiled at her and she gave me a face of stone. In her office, we swore to tell the truth during the interview. She asked to see our passports, my CA ID/DL, Jeremy’s EAD, Jeremy’s AP documents, Jeremy’s social security card (which he didn’t have with him but luckily he memorized the number). She then, very formally went through Jeremy’s AOS application – asked if he had ever committed a crime, joined the Communist party, etc. etc. She asked if we had ever been separated/had any martial difficulties since being married. She went over Jeremy’s G325a biographical data form that we submitted with the K1. Then she turned towards me and asked how we met, when we met, when we got engaged, where we got engaged, if we had an engagement party, when did we announce our engagement, if our families’ were ok with our engagement, if we had met each other’s family (specifically if I had met Jeremy’s family), when did I meet Jeremy’s family, who was at our wedding, why didn’t Jeremy’s family come to the wedding, where did we get married, where we’re going for our honeymoon. I thought that she’d ask Jeremy these questions but they were mostly directed towards me.
She then asked for all of our joint documents. We gave her: our lease agreement, our rental insurance, letters from my job showing that Jeremy, my spouse, is my dependant for medical, dental and vision coverage, bank statements from our joint bank account for the past 3 months, our family cell phone plan with both of our names on it. She left to show our documents to her supervisor. 7 minutes later she came back and asked to see photos. So we gave her a stack of pictures from our wedding and various pictures from this summer. She started to soften while looking at the pictures. I felt a little better after that. Then she said, “You guys don’t have enough evidence…” I thought “Wtf?!” but she pulled out a paper, stamped it, wrote Jeremy’s alien number on it and said, “You have to remove conditions on your green card within 90 days from your 2 year anniversary.” She also took several of the pictures and put them in our file. They were pictures of us embracing, pictures from the wedding with all of our guests, pictures from this summer of us, together, smiling and pictures of us with family and friends. I asked her what kind of evidence should we bring in 2 years and she said joint tax returns, joint credit cards, more bank statements, etc. She then told Jeremy that he couldn’t leave the country until he got his green card without having an infopass appointment. We talked about the honeymoon. And then she left to consult with a colleague. She came back and gave Jeremy his AP documents back and said only use them if we somehow are forced to leave the country during our honeymoon and border patrol specifically asks for it. Otherwise she said it will look suspicious for him to have an AOS approval in the computer and still have AP documents. She closed with, “It was nice to meet with you and Congratulations.”
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