AOS Approved in Seattle

[Yaads 0]

WE WERE APPROVED

This is what we brought to the interview....

- Both of our birth certificates, social security cards, passports, drivers license

- Certified copy of our marriage certificate

- Vaccine Supplement Copy

- EAD Card

- All NOA's from our whole journey (K1, EAD, AOS, Biometrics)

Financial Stuff...

- Updated I-864

- 2005 Tax Return

- Update Employee Letter

- Payroll History for last 4 months

- 3 months of bank statements

Evidence of a relationship

- Lease Agreement in both names

- Lease (rent) reciepts in both names

- Car Title in both names

- 401K statement with Andre as beneficiary

- Power bills in both names

- Phone bills in both names

- Letter from our pastor

- Half dozen mail items sent to our address in both names

- Handful of cards from our wedding

- Wedding Album with 20 or so pics

- 15 random pics from the last few holidays/birthdays

Ok....So we got there about 45 mins early and got through security no problem. Our appoinment was for 9:30 am. There was a lot of people in the waiting room and I could pick out some couples that you knew were there for AOS stuff because they had wedding albums and things like that. The interesting thing was out of the 4 couples that we saw there, 3 of them had lawyers. They were all dressed up like it was Easter Sunday and Andre and I started to panic cause we were dressed casual but nice...but definitely not our Sunday best. There were a lot of people of Russian descent in the waiting room and we didn't understand what they were saying but a lot of them were coming out the doors looking really sad and some were teary so that was a little unnerving...all these sad people who were obviously denied something. We were finally called in at 10:00. The lady was polite but not friendly. We were sworn in and took a seat. She asked to look at both our ID's...she specifically asked for drivers licenses. After that she looked at Andre's passport and took out the I-94. She had a huge file of all our information. She went through asking if things were correct (address, birthday, etc), then she asked all those "No" questions...Andre started to snicker when she asked if he was a prostitue or had ever harbored a prostitute After that she asked how we met, how many time I visited JA, when we got married, where we got married, who was there. Then she looked through our album of our wedding. She asked some questions in the pictures...who is this? who is that?

Then she asked what proof we had of our relationship. I started to give her copies of the things we had and she said she didn't need to see them, she just wanted me to tell her what we had. I listed off a couple of things and she said that was fine. She said we were approved but the FBI clearance didn't come back...when it does the green card will be sent in the mail. Have a nice day! She said the last few sentences as she was ushering us out the door. In all we were in there for 11 minutes. She talked extremely fast and never beat around the bush or cracked any sort of smile...no real emotion at all...It was all business. She didn't say anything about lifting conditions...good thing I know about that from VJ.

I was a little pissed that I spent a million hours getting this HUGE AOS package together and making copies of everything and stressing about getting all this evidence and all this stuff together and she looked at NONE of it. NONE!!! I filled out all these stupid forms, got all this update #######, saved mail for ever and she didn't look at a thing. Honestly she only look at our ID's in the beginning and our wedding album. I am grateful that it was easy but I was so prepared I wanted to show someone I think she knew we were prepared and we weren't sweating it or anything so that she wasn't worried about some sort of scam. She also mentioned that we had one of the most detailed AOS filing package that it made it easy on her.

So that is that...just waiting on the name check to get that green card. I can't believe we are "done" so to speak...what am I going to do while we wait for the next set of forms and petition we have to file???

Thanks for all the help and advice from everyone

See you over in the "Removing Conditions" forum

[Mand 1]

Congrats!! Happy Days!!

(But I bet no one will be able to beat our 4 minute interview

[Autumnal 25]

Congratulations!

[Yaads 0]

Congratulations!

Hey thanks!!! Your interview was today as well...how did it go?

[den_y2005 0]

congrats

[planeobsessed 0]

congrats!

[raymaga 25]

Congrats on a successful interview. Hopefully the GC won't be too long in arriving.

Both myself and my daughter went to the Seattle office and were in and out in 10 minutes too.

[Dixie_Peach 1]

congrats!

[Jasman0717 8]

Congratulations

[Yaads 0]

Thanks everyone

[SanDan 0]

Great! Congratulations

[iceyspots 0]

congrats !!!!!!

[sukie175 0]

Hey don't be pissed just be happy

Hang on to that file for sending in with the removal of conditions in 2 years - from what I read you need to send lots of evidence

[idocare 3]

Congrats on your approval !!!!!

[snz1802 0]

Congratz