AOS Interview - Chicago - 2 hours ago

Octa · May 15, 2006

SOOOO we were approved BUT we almost did not make it....... (really long post .sorry)

Our interview was at 9:15AM, it takes us 30 mins. to get to downtown so we left at 7:30AM just to make sure. Traffic on the way, I was driving....Well we were almost there when I felt my hand weird, as I turned the wheel I saw NO WEDDING BAND ON, NO ENGAGEMENT RING ON...I never< NEVER get out of the house without them and now here I was going to an interview where we had to prove that our marriage was legitimate and I had no wedding band on. It was 8:00AM allready., I called my mother, she called my brother to come bring the wedding band..HE could not find it, he had no gas in his car blah blah blah, my mom had to go give him the wedding band because he is 19 and you know lives in another world and doesn't really care about anything. I was freaking out, it was a nightmare. Well, he came we got there, looked for parking.

At 9:03AM we were parking, at 9:08AM we entered the building, security check..at 9:14 we were at the 2nd floor. We gave the NOA, sat down. We heard them call a name we recognized, it was some family friends that came to our wedding. Well after them, they called us and gave us the NOA back. WE were sent to the 23rd floor where we had to show them the NOA again and to sit down. We sat next to our friends, started talking (they were pretty scared had a lawyer with them, he lived here for a few years without paperwork). Barelly said anything to them, 1 minute later a lady came and called my husband's name.

She did not tell us her name! no introduction, It made me more nervous. On the NOA it says on the bottom 17 maybe that has something to do with whom interviews you., SHe was blonde really tall and slim with glasses. SHE LOOKED SO FAMILIAR. We went to her office, She made us raise our right hands and asked us if we swear to say the truth and blah blah. She then asked us to sit down and to get our ID's out. We put them on the desk, SHE DID NOT LOOK AT THEM. Then she asked my husband to remove the I94 from the passport and give it to her, he did just that. After that she said "Nicolai get your paperwork out". Well when she said that I got the paperwork out because I am the one who took care of everything, he has no idea all I had to do. SHe looked a bit surprised. THen she got a papercut blah blah.

As she was looking at her computer I kept on looking at her engagement ring, SHE LOOKED SO FAMILIAR. SOOO FAMILIAR, even her ring was familiar, I had seen that BIG BIG ring before. :yes: AND she was so quiet and it made me so worried and I had felt the same feeling before with the same person.

She just asked my husband those same questions that I saw others from this forum were asked. Your date of birth, were you arrested, etc. THen how did you guys meet? .She then asked for Income Tax for 2005. We were worried about the proof, but we were okay. She asked if we have something together, I told her we just had savings/checking accounts, health insurance, car insurance. I explained to her that we live with my parents. She asked if our two cars are on both our names. I told her they were both on my name since I had bought one before I even met him and the other before he had any paperwork here. She then said. OKAY YOU GUYS ARE APPROVED. Stamped the passport she made a mistake, restamped it and rewrote all. She said she had not done this in 6 years. "DOn't worry guys I know how to process K1s" She called someone to ask about the stamp, if she wrote all correct. Gave us the passport back then asked for it again because she forgot to write the 6 in CHI CF - 6. THAT was it

SHE LOOKED SO FAMILIAR??? exactly 2 years ago I became a US citizen. I had an interview then too, Guess who it was? HER. same lady. I was so worried then and now, because she does not look very friendly, she does not do any small talk.. She does not talk to much and is always in a hurry. I told her we brought the picture for nothing. She replied by saying "I could take a look at them, but I am busy. Bye you guys, good luck." She kind of threw us out :lol: We didn't mind We went to the interview without submitting the vaccination supplement. We were pressed for time then and figured we will just get a RFE and send them the supplement then. We just sent in a vaccination sheet that they gave to my husband in Romania. Now we figured, they should not call us to an interview if something was wrong so we did not do them. We were willing to take a change but I have to say that we were pretty nervous about that. I would not recommend not doing them and then feeling that way at the interview.

Long post SORRY again. Even like this I did not write all that I wanted to. If there is misspelling and sentences that do not make sense I apologize, I was trying to write fast.

Octavia

forgot to mention that she did not look at ANYTHING. She just took the income tax and put it in the files. I asked her, you don't want to see our bank statements, health insurance cards or car insurance? she said "No, I just put down here that I saw the originals" ... She did not even look at them, I had them in my hand the whole time. :yes:

Edited May 15, 2006 by 1 lady in red