Our AOS interview

[ecce 20]

We got approved for the GC! But at this point we've learned to wait for the actual document before opening the champagne. Hopefully it'll come in the next few weeks. Looks like we might get the GC before the EAD or AP, but such is life.

Here's what happened at the interview: We got called almost on time, but it was only me (the U.S. citizen, not the petitioner) who got called in - the woman asked my husband to wait outside. I figured that wasn't a good sign - that they would interview us separately, but it turned out to be fine. She just asked me to describe in detail how/ where we met and became a couple. Then she asked about a previous incident he had had at the border where he was questioned. (He had trouble coming in on a tourist visa to visit shortly after we got engaged. He mentioned to them at the border he was visiting his fiance and they thought he was likely to stay...) So I had to explain that, even though we hadn't broken any rules, they just decided he was suspicious. After asking me a lot about that (I had to assure her that he didn't coerce me in to applying for the fiance visa), she called him in.

The only things she was interested in seeing was:

1) My driver's license (I got a loooong lecture because it's an out of state license, because I am a grad student...so it doesn't have our current address on it)

2)Our lease. This was a problem because the management company refused to put my husband's name on it because he doesn't have a job (because he doesn't yet have the work authorization). So we just explained that - we tried to get her to look at bills with our name on them but she wasn't interested. It turned out ok, but she kept asking if we lived in student housing (we don't) and she seemed confused by our address for some reason.

3) My husband's second passport.

She didn't want to see any pictures or bills or financial info or anything else we had prepared. She asked for awhile about my husband's studies in the U.S., and his mandatory army service, and she went through the AOS form, question by question, to make sure he answered no. Then she said she was approving the case, to make sure that the post office had his correct address (whatever this means) and we didn't have to wait for anything else.

[Adilet&Venera 2]

Congrats!

[mike_d_godfather 3]

Congratulations! Ours is next week hope we will have the same result.

[lovenow 2]

WOOOHOOO! see you are getting compensated for the long visa wait! seems like she was kinda tough on you though.

Never mind, so happy you were approved!

[melissahinds 0]

Congrats!! So happy you were approved!!

Congrats!! So happy you were approved!!

[faithinGod 8]

Congratulations!!!