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| Charlotte NC |  Review on February 20, 2009: |
Burnspot
Rating:  | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
NOTE: This review is for the Raleigh-Durham office! There appears to be no category for it yet.
Appointment date/time was 2/19/09 @ 1:30pm for initial AOS interview.
Check In: Arrived at the Raleigh-Durham office at 1:15. Interview check-in is on the first floor and the waiting room is on the 2nd floor. Be sure to leave your phone or other electronics in the car as they're not allowed in the building.
Wait Time: Checked in and received a numbered paper ticket that was stapled to our interview NOA and then was directed to the second floor waiting room. The waiting room is equipped with 2 TV's; one had CNN running while the other displayed the ticket numbers called. The waiting room was fairly full when we arrived. We waited approximately 1.5 hours before our number was called; we waited at the door for the interviewing officer to let us in.
Interview: Officer was probably in his late 20's-early 30's and friendly. Walked us to his office (first door on left), swore us in, and then seated us. We were his 13th and last interview for the day. He started looking through our paperwork, asking my wife questions about her parents and what they did in China (they're retired), remarked about the complete vaccination record we had in our file (apparently, we were the only one out of his 13 interviews to have complete information that day). He verified the birth certificates and marriage certificates he had on file with the ones we brought with us and then asked for our bank statement and any other evidence of our relationship. We handed him 1 bank statement, 1 AMEX statement, 1 phone bill, and our photo album containing 53 photos. He glanced over the statements and browsed the photo album. After some casual conversation about China and the job my wife holds (financing director for a Chinese firm's North American operations), he told us we were approved! He stamped our file and then wrote out a little sticky note for our reference on when we should file to remove conditions in 21 months. Total time was about 15 minutes. My wife asked to have the approval stamp in her passport so she could travel, if needed, and he agreed to get that done for her...that took 15 more minutes as he had to go downstairs to get the stamp done. We shook hands and left.
Overall: Good experience! The wait time was long, but that doesn't hold a candle to the total wait time we've gone through with this whole process, lol.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #3973