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| Buffalo NY |  Review on August 7, 2017: |
freshheir
Rating:  | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
My new husband and I just returned from Buffalo (we are about 3 hours away near Ithaca) for our Green Card interview. We knew it would be brief, and were disappointed there wasn't a Syracuse option, but attended anyway. The whole interview took about 10 minutes. 50 minutes from entry to exit.
At 12 o clock we walked in half an hour early to get started. Security took all our stuff and looked at the appointment letter. They told us to check in at the first booth. There was 3 people in front of us, the line was quick. They checked my appointment letter and took my photo (not his) and both my index finger prints. The lady told us to sit and wait for us to be called. About 10 minutes later they started calling ticket numbers and my husband went up to make sure we didn't miss getting a ticket (nobody was going up for the first number called). She said no, by name, and we waited some more.
After about 25 minutes more of waiting (we were there pretty early) a man (Mr. Bruecsh?) called us in to a back office at 12:35 and asked us not to sit so we could do our oath. We swore in, then sat. He took out a giant folder that was all our paperwork, and asked for our IDs and passports.
After confirming our identities, he asked me all the info from my first page of the AoS application to check out my name, address, parents names, and such. When we finished, he told my husband not to speak. He went through his page of the AoS application and asked ME to verify his name, address, place of birth, birth date and other very basic details.
Of course it all checked out so he asked me to elaborate on how we met. I explained online many years ago. He asked how we came to be an item and I said that we stopped playing our main game (he asked what we played now) and then explained our relationship progression. We teased ourselves for being nerdy after we admitted how we met and he agreed with us. He was either deadpan funny or actually put off by how geeky we were.
At the end he said "Well, you can't fake this nerdiness. Your card has been approved." dismissively and went on to elaborate that these days they only do interviews for couples like us because hey HAVE TO for all K1s - I had read sometimes in the past they skip the interview step, but apparently not anymore - after the "San Bernardino Massacre" (I had to google it to know what it was). He seemed very disinterested in the entire process, pointing out the massive amount of evidence within our original K1 application such as physical letter correspondence leaving any doubt of it being bonafide (good to know the early efforts were not wasted). I jokingly offered he see our newer evidence and photos and he kind of coldly said "Not really, I'd rather not". It was clearly all a big waste of time for him, but it was nice it was so easy for us - as it should have been.
In the end we got approved and warned that my employment authorization would probably get denied because my green card was about 3 to 6 weeks away(presumably my travel authorization will be as well)! Looking forward to having an income again.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #22302