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| Dallas TX |  Review on September 18, 2009: |
naksah
Rating:  | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
We had our interview today at the Dallas office in Irving and we got approved....Thank God.
I was really nervous about this whole thing but i tried to take as much evidence as i could find. Babe was so calm the whole time but i wasn't.
Anyways, this is how everything went down.
I couldn't sleep well so i was up by 6.00am. Our interview was scheduled for 9.00am and since we leave about 30min from the place, i figured leaving an hour earlier would be best. Not a good idea. The morning traffic on I-35 was insane, it was raining, so it took us a little over an hour to get there. I couldn't hold my nerves in the car....i kept going off for stupid reasons but like i said, babe was so calm.
We get there and the whole place is full of people. They have 2 lobbies, upstairs and downstairs so after the security check, we were sent upstairs. We turned in our interview letter and were handed one of those buzzers.
We waited for about 50 mins before our buzzer went off. Meanwhile, the whole time we were waiting, babe was complaining of hunger.....we didn't have breakfast coz i can't eat when im nervous and he didn't want to eat by himself. To calm my nerves, i decided to start small talk with the guy next to me....his story wasn't a good one. He told me that he had been there since 7.30am, he had been separated from his wife, and his wife was being interviewed. Theirs must have been one of those Stoke interviews that i read about. He was 39 and the wife was 26 and i guess the IO was suspicious of something. His wife came out, they took the husband in and i don't know what happened next. The wife tried to come and sit next to us but some lady stopped her....little did i know that this lady would be out interviewer.
Back to me. We got called in at about 9.50am, the IO was an older lady of about 40 something years old. She swore us in, asked for our marriage certificate, passport, Birth Certificate and IDs. She complimented my passport holder...it was pink...so i told her she can get one from Victoria's Secret....she laughed. While babe was getting everything, she asked us how we met. Babe answered that....i was still nervous so babe held my hand the whole time. She asked what places we had traveled together. We love to travel so babe had a long list of places, i kept reminding him of some places he had left out. We took a photo album so she spent sometime looking at the pics. She then asked babe if he had met my parents and it they where happy about our marriage? She then asked for things that proved we lived together.....i had put together so much stuff so she was kinda overwhelmed by the paper work. We had Joint Credit Card statements, Joint Bank Statements, Family plan phone bill, Car Insurance, affidavit from a friend, plane tickets, Electric bill. She said we had way too much info and she added that its good coz it shows your relationship is real but it may also slow down your process because they have to go through so much paper work. I didn't tell her this but i think the more the better.
She asked me what i was studying, when i told her Electrical Engineering, she was like...woow, i guess she couldn't pass her Calculus...lol She asked babe also and he told her IT. Then she started confirming the info on the I-130 and I-485, took my I-94, told me we had been approved and the whole removing conditions after.
That was it. The whole interview took about 20min and we were out by 10.20am. She also complimented my bag while she walked us out but she didn't give us any approval letter or stamps in my passport.
Thanks to everyone on VJ for the support you gave me and Good luck to everyone who is still waiting for approvals.
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