Wow, first thanks for everyone's help and advice.
I attended my wife's interview, I think it helped, for sure it did
not hurt. We arrived about 5:45AM for our 8:30 interview. I feel
we could of arrived at 6:30 or 7, for the 8:30 interviews were not
called to line until after 7AM.
The pre-screener was nice and the interviewer was nicer. The reason
i attended was mostly because i had all the supporting docs. I
really think it helped having it very organized. She (the pre-
screener) flipped through each booklet i supplied. She accepted
each thing I brought, but declined my I864, saying they had my copy
already. She asked, 'do you have pictures?', where did we
meet?', 'when were we married?' and she requested proof of ID from
my wife. Then she said that I may attend the interview and 'good
luck'.
The interviewer, was very friendly. He swore us in, asked 'where we
met', 'how many times I visited', 'where my wife planned to live in
the US' and asked me, 'where I worked and my job title', he joked
around asking about my states minimum age requirement for driving (I
don't know why), maybe just chit-chat, then he asked my wife 'how
many people attended our wedding' and then followed with 'for sure
you had lechon then'. He then, placed a rubber band around our
stack of folders, stamped something and said 'OK, your approved.'
That was it, very pain free. Seems I was asked the same amount of
questions as my wife. We are currently waiting for Delbros to
deliver, the man at the Delbros counter told my wife, that we should
get it in 1 or 2 days since we are staying near the Embassy.
Our CR1 timeline started about January 26th 2007 and ended November
9th. So about 10 1/2 months total, we are very fortunate for how
quickly it went.
So again, a sincere thanks to all who have helped here, I will
continue to lurk and help others if I can also.
Martin and Amy
Missouri