AOS Interview Experience - Lawrence, MA

[engineer21 51]

We're approved!!!!!

We literally just got back home and had a champagne toast

The interview was fairly painless.

Our interview was scheduled for 1:30 pm.

We parked at the court house parking lot down the street ($4) and got to the Lawrence Service Center at about 12:50pm, gave our interview letter to the front desk and were told to sit in the waiting area. (Different waiting room than for my biometrics last time)

We didn't get called in until around 1:50pm.

We had to spit our gums out into the IO's waste basket because we forgot(eventhough I had set aside two pieces of paper for both of us earlier )

Then he swore us in and asked for both our passports and birth certificates.

He asked me for any and all passports and other USCIS documents ever issued to me.

I handed my one and only passport and my $320 replacement I-94 and he added my I-94 into our file.

And then I told him that I had lost my old passports and I-94.

He asked me if I had my previous EAD with me and I said I lost that too.

He asked me: "Do you lose everything ma'am?" and laughed a little.

Then the interview started:

Questions to hubby (as far as I can remember-- it went really fast!):

My full name, My maiden name, Where I was born, Where and how we met, My previous address before we moved in together, What major I was studying when we met, Have we ever travelled together and where.

He asked hubby and me if we have proof that we live together, any joint finances, and pictures.

Hubby took out the photo album and I started taking out all the other papers.

He looked at some pictures and then told me I can keep all the documents I had just pulled out.

He didn't look at any of it, but we could tell he appreciated that we were so prepared and it seems he just wanted to see that we had other things besides pictures.

Questions to me:

Who is the mutual friend who was the reason we met (hubby had said we met at a halloween party through a mutual friend), Where hubby lived when we met, Where did he work then, Where does he work now, Where did he move to after that before we moved in together, Have I met his parents, what is my GPA and do I have my college transcript (Panic!! -- then he said he was only joking )

Then he went through the rest of my info on my g-325a and i-485 (including all of the yes/no questions), joking around here and there as he goes.

At the end of the yes/no questions he told us he is approving our application.

Then he stood up, got a stamp and put a big red APPROVED Stamp on the front page of one of our forms (couldn't tell which one, I think the i-130)

He said "as of this moment you are a legal permanent resident of the United States of America" I was so happy I could cry!!

Then he gave me the whole explanation of removing conditions and when I can apply for naturalization.

He spent a few more minutes (kinda awkward for hubby and I) just typing some things into the computer and then he told us to make sure my name is on our mailbox and that the GC will come in a couple weeks.

And then we were done! The whole thing took less than 20 minutes..

Hubby told me to tell all of you on VJ: thank you for all the support, advice, and keeping me sane during this journey!!

[Nwanyioma 11]

Wow!!! Congratulations!!! Just sent my package on Friday July 23,2010. Cant wait to be done with the USCIS. All the Best.

Nwanyioma

[BethandBilly 86]

So happy for you guys, seems to have gone smoothly for you, great feeling isn't it :-)

[USUY2010 4]

Congratulations!! It's nice to hear happy endings like yours! Looks like you have plenty to celebrate!!

[engineer21 51]

Thank you guys!

We are still celebrating even today!