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| Cleveland OH |  Review on July 22, 2007: |
Vijay
Rating:  | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
My interview experience July 20'th 2007 Cleveland, OH
We got there at the immigration office around 10AM and our appointment was for 10:45AM. There were not too many people, may be around 5-6 couples
We put our notice and waited. We were called in around 11:15AM.
The officer was female and introduced herself as Agent simpson and apologized for making us wait and how she was taking care of some business and forgot
our notice. She made us swear to tell the truth and started the videotaping. She looked at our ID's and mentioned how she was a few houses away from our place visiting friends Thursday evening. She asked for my passports and first thing, she took the I-94 and stapled it to her file!. She went through my G-325A information and verified my address and where I work, my school and all my parents details. She looked at my passport and saw all the times I have gone and come back into the country and mentioned that I had successfully maintained my status through my Grad school.
Then she went through each and every one of the Yes/No questions. After that she turned to my wife and verified all her details in her G-325A ( I am changing status from F-1, hence I had an I-130 pending). Once this was all done, she asked us how we met and our dating and engagement!. We told her that we met through e-harmony.com and she immediately mentioned that we were the second couple today to have met that way and I jokingly mentioned that I and my wife were planning to appear in their commercials. I told her how we met, when was our first date, where we went, when we got engaged and we got married. We also mentioned we had two ceremonies, one Indian and one Christian for both our families.
Then she asked us documents proving our marriage. We gave our new car joint title information, joint health information, joint car insurance, joint checking account, saving account statements back from when we were dating upto last month. She seemed to be pleased with all the documents so far. Then I gave her joint house deed, joint credit cards, and joint Goodwill donation papers. Also we provided her with our dog adoption documents with both our names and she liked this a lot, since he had dogs and there were pics on her office wall of her and the dog. We showed album of her pics from dating until the honeymoon and told her she could keep whatever she wanted. She went through all of them and didn't keep any. Also we had brought in our wedding albums (about 800 pics in all). She flipped through about one fill album (400 pics). She also wrote down in paper all the documents we showed her. She said everything looked good.
Then came the worst part, she said she was approving the I-130 right there in front of us on the spot and she did. She said she wouldn't be able to approve the I-485, since they were waiting on FBI Clearance and she didn't mention namecheck right away. I brought it up and she acknowledged it was the name check and she wouldn't be able to promise when that would clear. Once it clears, they would send the card right away. She also mentioned all the pending files would be put aside and some clerks are assigned to check one every week whether the namecheck has cleared or not.
I mentioned to her that we were moving from OH to PA soon at the end of August and what we need to. She mentioned to file the AR-11 form and give them the new address and the file would be automatically transferred to PA (I kind of didn't buy this part totally, but I didn't mention too much). I also asked her whether I would be able to Advance Parole now and she mentioned that since I have always kept status, I am good to use. She also mentioned that in theory, they check all the advance parole applications for overstay before approving. If there was a overstay for someone, the Advance Parole would be rejected in theory (I don't know how they would check completely, but didn't care either).
She also mentioned about removal of conditions and how we need to file again and they won't remind us, but will punish us if we forget. She also said to keep accumulating all these documents for the next two years and send it in with the removal of conditions. She also mentioned about how soon I can file for citizenship after the approval of the green card.
The interview was in all for 25 minutes, since we were chatting for quite a bit. My wife was kind of disappointed, but I had warned her about this happening.
All in all, I was happy but now the wait begins on the namecheck. I wasn't too worried before the interview, since we had accumulated all the documents and with help from this forum.
Just wanted to say to all remaining people waiting to be interviewed, take as much as you can and relax before and during the interview.
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