Greencard Finally Approved!

Sarah08 · February 6, 2008

Hi everyone!

We had our interview yesterday and Ede's GC was approved! For those who are going to have the interview in the near future, I'll tell you all what happened!

Our interview was in Chicago, and we got there ~1 hour early. It just so happens that they were behind, so we were waiting there for over 2 hours, but at least we had a chance to relax for a while before we had to go in. They finally called Ede's name and we went back and sat down. The guy who was doing our interview asked for our IDs, asked Ede where he was born, when he came here initially, etc.

Then he goes "Have you ever been arrested or convicted of any crimes?" And Ede kinda of grins and says "No, never" to which the interviewer responed "you're smiling. That gives me a reason to believe that you are lying to me." Ede says "Well, I just think it's interesting that you would ask me about this since I have already declared in my paperwork that I have never been involved with any of that" And the guy goes "So you think it's funny that we ask people this?!" Well, it ended up all right in the end.

I brought with us the pictures from when I went to Hungary to visit Ede's family, so he was looking thru those and asking questions about the trip. Then he asked a few questions about the civil marriage and he was kind of concerned about the fact that we are so young, but we convinced him that we have been together for 3 years now and that we don't want to be with anyone else because we have been thru so much together already.

So that was basically it...he asked about our living arrangements, some about our I-864 and commented that it looked good, and then told us that we are approved! He didn't ask to look at any other forms, so that was good. He took Ede's EAD and I-94 and said "you won't need these anymore!" Then explained about lifting conditions in 2 years, and that we should have the GC in 2 weeks! The whole thing took about 15 minutes.

Thanks everyone for your support through this whole process, and if anyone has questions about the interview, I will be glad to answer!

-Sarah

Malarie · February 6, 2008

Hi everyone!
We had our interview yesterday and Ede's GC was approved! For those who are going to have the interview in the near future, I'll tell you all what happened!

Our interview was in Chicago, and we got there ~1 hour early. It just so happens that they were behind, so we were waiting there for over 2 hours, but at least we had a chance to relax for a while before we had to go in. They finally called Ede's name and we went back and sat down. The guy who was doing our interview asked for our IDs, asked Ede where he was born, when he came here initially, etc.

Then he goes "Have you ever been arrested or convicted of any crimes?" And Ede kinda of grins and says "No, never" to which the interviewer responed "you're smiling. That gives me a reason to believe that you are lying to me." Ede says "Well, I just think it's interesting that you would ask me about this since I have already declared in my paperwork that I have never been involved with any of that" And the guy goes "So you think it's funny that we ask people this?!" Well, it ended up all right in the end.

I brought with us the pictures from when I went to Hungary to visit Ede's family, so he was looking thru those and asking questions about the trip. Then he asked a few questions about the civil marriage and he was kind of concerned about the fact that we are so young, but we convinced him that we have been together for 3 years now and that we don't want to be with anyone else because we have been thru so much together already.

So that was basically it...he asked about our living arrangements, some about our I-864 and commented that it looked good, and then told us that we are approved! He didn't ask to look at any other forms, so that was good. He took Ede's EAD and I-94 and said "you won't need these anymore!" Then explained about lifting conditions in 2 years, and that we should have the GC in 2 weeks! The whole thing took about 15 minutes.

Thanks everyone for your support through this whole process, and if anyone has questions about the interview, I will be glad to answer!

-Sarah

Congratulations!!! And Thank You for the details above.... my husbands and my AOS interview is March 26th in Chicago -- we also had our biometrics in Waukegan!!

Malarie