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| Norfolk VA |  Review on February 2, 2005: |
DSAlecca
Rating:  | Review Topic: General Review
Ever since Norfolk went under the INFOPASS system, it seems to be much less chaotic once you get inside......however!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a line outside to get in...it's kinda silly, specially when it's cold out.
At any rate...
Steve had his AOS interview yesterday. We were called in ON TIME for our interview (how freaky is that). We were interviewed by Agent Carter. She was actually very personable. She walked us back to her office (they have pretty big offices btw). The first thing I noticed is that she has a wall of Barbie dolls. I remarked on them, saying that I used to collect Barbie's and the only one that I still had was Indian Barbie - and she said that she's been trying to find Indian Barbie on EBAY. (Immediately I start thinking - hmm should I bribe her and offer her the doll so we can get approved hehe, but I didn't! Steve told me later he was thinking the same thing, I'm sure she was too, wanting my Barbie doll).
She had all our paperwork from the K1 there, so all she wanted was proof that we lived together. We showed her our Dominion Power bill and the home ownership documents (we didn't have copies, but she made them for us - everything we copied, she didn't want!). She asked for my four latest check stubs. Didn't need copies for those, she just tore off the part where they say how much they deposited to the bank. The only marriage question she asked us was the date we got married. I was pretty surprised at that.
Then she went into a very impressive question and answer session for Steve. She asked all the questions that we've answered before (e.g. are you a terrorist, prostitute, bigamist, etc). The funny thing is she was reciting it from the list that we filled out (DS231 I believe from the Embassy interview). You could tell she did it alot because she had it all memorized. Steve and I couldn't help laughing at those questions once again, mostly because they are so inane.
Then, wondering what more she wanted, she took her red stamp and stamped Steve's passport and explained our next steps (have to apply to remove conditional pr in 18 months, etc).
All in all, it was a very easy interview. She was nice and personable, which was a pleasant surprise. I had a coworker go through the process at the Norfolk office about 8 years ago, and the USC was called an outright liar and they are still mad about it (and they are still together - go figure).
Anyhow, hopefully this will help some of you who have to go through the process of AOSing in Norfolk!
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