GC interview tomorrow

[Jscoope 0]

Hey guys, My wife and I have our Green Card interview tomorrow morning at the Buffalo, NY office. Wish us luck!

I will post an update on how everything goes and the procedure once I get home.

Thanks again for the help from everybody on this board, you've made it so much easier!

[Betti 1]

Good luck!

[summersurf 10]

You have our wish..the wish of all the best lucks!!!

JC.

[Starburst 4]

good luck!

/starburst

[besaangel 17]

All the best Jscoope

[pixie77 2]

Good Luck!!!!!

[Felipe23 2]

Good luck

[danimead 4]

good luck!!

[HisWife 0]

Hope all went well!!

[Jscoope 0]

No good

We need a co-sponsor.

When we submitted our affadavit of support the most recent year was 2008, we hadn't filed 2009 yet. So we just got the tax transcript for 2008 and my wife had made more than enough to meet the requirements. However at the interview they asked for the 2009 tax return which I didn't bring or submit because we hadn't made enough money (my wife was student-teaching as part of her masters in education requirement, so it didn't leave enough time for a job.). So basically the IO said that she needs us to get a co-sponsor, we are going to use my father-in-law/wife's dad. We have a follow up meeting with the IO next Wednesday. She said she anticipates being able to approve it, she just needs us to bring out 2009 tax return, my father-in-laws tax return and W-2's and a new I-864 for him. So hopefully next Wednesday we will be approved.

The finances were the ONLY aspect I was worried about, and that's what bit us in the butt.

Other than that though, everything went well. The lady was nice and matter-of-fact about everything. We brought our wedding album and some photos of us throughout the years. We brought originals of everything we submitted and a few more pieces of evidence of bonafide marriage which the IO made copies of. I told the IO about our travel plans for London on July 5 and how we were worried about not having the AP by then which is why she actually allowed us to schedule a follow up so soon, and she said next week if it's all good she will stamp my passport just in case the GC doesn't arrive in time, she said it will take about 10 days to get the GC once it's ordered though.

[HisWife 0]

No good

We need a co-sponsor.

When we submitted our affadavit of support the most recent year was 2008, we hadn't filed 2009 yet. So we just got the tax transcript for 2008 and my wife had made more than enough to meet the requirements. However at the interview they asked for the 2009 tax return which I didn't bring or submit because we hadn't made enough money (my wife was student-teaching as part of her masters in education requirement, so it didn't leave enough time for a job.). So basically the IO said that she needs us to get a co-sponsor, we are going to use my father-in-law/wife's dad. We have a follow up meeting with the IO next Wednesday. She said she anticipates being able to approve it, she just needs us to bring out 2009 tax return, my father-in-laws tax return and W-2's and a new I-864 for him. So hopefully next Wednesday we will be approved.

The finances were the ONLY aspect I was worried about, and that's what bit us in the butt.

Other than that though, everything went well. The lady was nice and matter-of-fact about everything. We brought our wedding album and some photos of us throughout the years. We brought originals of everything we submitted and a few more pieces of evidence of bonafide marriage which the IO made copies of. I told the IO about our travel plans for London on July 5 and how we were worried about not having the AP by then which is why she actually allowed us to schedule a follow up so soon, and she said next week if it's all good she will stamp my passport just in case the GC doesn't arrive in time, she said it will take about 10 days to get the GC once it's ordered though.

Sorry to hear! But at least you have a solution...you guys will be good by your next encounter with the IO! Good Luck again!

[engineer21 51]

No good

We need a co-sponsor.

When we submitted our affadavit of support the most recent year was 2008, we hadn't filed 2009 yet. So we just got the tax transcript for 2008 and my wife had made more than enough to meet the requirements. However at the interview they asked for the 2009 tax return which I didn't bring or submit because we hadn't made enough money (my wife was student-teaching as part of her masters in education requirement, so it didn't leave enough time for a job.). So basically the IO said that she needs us to get a co-sponsor, we are going to use my father-in-law/wife's dad. We have a follow up meeting with the IO next Wednesday. She said she anticipates being able to approve it, she just needs us to bring out 2009 tax return, my father-in-laws tax return and W-2's and a new I-864 for him. So hopefully next Wednesday we will be approved.

The finances were the ONLY aspect I was worried about, and that's what bit us in the butt.

Other than that though, everything went well. The lady was nice and matter-of-fact about everything. We brought our wedding album and some photos of us throughout the years. We brought originals of everything we submitted and a few more pieces of evidence of bonafide marriage which the IO made copies of. I told the IO about our travel plans for London on July 5 and how we were worried about not having the AP by then which is why she actually allowed us to schedule a follow up so soon, and she said next week if it's all good she will stamp my passport just in case the GC doesn't arrive in time, she said it will take about 10 days to get the GC once it's ordered though.

Sorry to hear that you ran into a bump in the road so close to the finish line.

But it sounds like you got a nice IO and hopefully you can take care of everything before your next appointment

Wishing you the best of luck!!!

[Jscoope 0]

APPROVED!!!

Went back today with all of the required documents for joint sponsorship, the IO reviewed it all and then called me in to the office to say she was going to approve it.

At the initial interview we had talked about an upcoming trip my wife and I are taking at the beginning of July so she stamped my passport with the temp green card just in case the official one doesn't arrive in time.

Just wanted to let everybody know the good news and say thank you again to everybody on here, in all honesty this whole process would have been about 500 times harder without this board.

thanks again.

[engineer21 51]

Yaaaaaaaay!!! Congrats!!

So happy for you guys

[Felipe23 2]

Congrats!!!

Approved dance!! :dance: :dance: