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| Chicago IL |  Review on March 30, 2010: |
MARM
Rating:  | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
We arrived at 101 W Congress Parkway at around 7:45 AM for a 9:00 AM interview appointment. Screened through security, and up the escalators to the receptionist on the second floor, who took our interview letter and gave us a beeper/pager with a unique # and kept and wrote the same # on the interview letter. We sat down in a room that wasn't so full of people but did have the capacity to hold about 100 interviewees. At 8:08 AM, our pager buzzed and as we stood up to head for the door which led to the adjudicator's offices, the IO officer walked out with a sheet of paper in our hands and confirmed my husband's last name. Then instead of going through that door, she walked us toward the back, which was the "restricted entrance/exit" marked for personnel only. She led us both into her office and had us both swear an oath to tell the truth with our right hands raised before we sat down. Then we sat down and she immediately asked for our gov issued IDs and passports and my husband's I-94. We presented the documents to her and she shuffled through some paperwork in our huge, thick file (which I was surprised to see had all my husband's K-1 interview forms in it as well). She handed us an official copy of the appointment notice for our records (we already made a copy of the one we submitted to the receptionist beforehand, but gladly took it from her anyhow). It was silent for a while as she searched for some information, and then she asked only the following questions of my husband:
The formal "have you ever been..." questions (not all of the ones on the page, just 3) And then she asked my husband and I to sign and date a form.
Were you born in Pakistan?
Were you a resident of the UK?
When did you last enter the US?
Have you gotten your EAD? (no, he has not)
And then she asked a few more questions, not specifically directed at either one of us so we answered together:
So you met online?
Did you have a big wedding?
Do you have any children?
Who is first name, last name? (my mother, my husband's mother-in-law)
And after shuffling through some more paperwork, she asked of my husband, "So you had your medical done at the time of your visa application?" Which he did, but he had his vacc.s done later and transcribed here in the US by a CS. She thought she couldn't find the medical so she asked me for a copy and just as I was about to give her a copy of the medical I had brought with me, she found the medical in his file. So nothing to worry about.
Then after going through our file again, she asked, "Is there anything you would like to give me to add to your application?"
At this point my husband showed her our photo albums, but she merely glanced at one of them, she didn't take them into her hands at all, and she declined to take pictures out of there for our application when I told her she could take pictures out of there for our file. I proceeded to give her copies of our 2009 joint tax return, bank statements, safety deposit box accounts, living arrangements affidavit, and showed her proof of joint address (in the forms of letters addressed to both of us and my husband). She only took copies of the 2009 tax return, living arrangements affidavit and the bank accounts, safety deposit box accounts, nothing else.
Then she told us,"Today, I am approving your(my husband's) residency in the United States. Two years from now, you will be eligible to lift conditions. You will be able to apply for a new SS card once you get the green card in hand. Expect to receive your green card within two weeks at your home address. If you get the EAD document at home, send it back to us and you no longer will be needing it." And we said, "thank you" (We were so happy!) and she led us out back to the main waiting area.
The actual interview part took literally 5-6 minutes of time in total.
We were home by 9:45 AM  
(updated on March 30, 2010)
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #5858