AOS Interview - Help please-

[Gandamu 0]

Hello everybody,

My wife and I just sent out the paperwork needed for Adjustment of Status with their respective fees(money orders) etc. And as I was told the next step would be the biometrics and fingerprints appointment after I get the receipts of my 3 forms via Mail then an Interview appointment.

1. Would anyone give me a link to a site or a thread in this forum with a list of the interview Questionnaire please? I just want an idea on what those questions will be like please.

2. For the bona fide process: I have a bag of letters and my wife has a bag as well of Letters we wrote to each other during high school. We kept them for memories.. Can I just take the originals? or should I make copies of every single letter?

3. For the Bona fide process picture part: If I take my original albums. Will they keep them? My wife is very creative and made scrapbooks of them and they are very nice so shes worried they would want to keep them. Do they? Just to know so I would just print them out again and make a different album.

4. I read we need bank statements with both our names in the same account: She added myself on her account like 5 months ago considering the interview could be my way in 5 months that would be 10months worth of statements: Is that enough ?

5. I was told to take Family Letters having them say they know we are married etc.. What is this exactly? Does it mean like having her grandma/mother/father make individuals letters saying like "I approve this marriage, they have been together for this long and etc etc? also this letter could easily be made by me which I'm not, BUT I know an IO wouldn't believe any letter like that, So I would like to make them see this is real. How do I proof to the IO that this family member did indeed write the letter? make a copy of the family member's ID included with the letter maybe??

6. Will the first interview be together? or will they separate us? I thought the 2nd was the one where they would ask you things separately. I'm a bit confused.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

[SF2007 48]

I am guessing you are adjusting for a K1? A basic research on the site will give you tons of information about AOS interviews. There is no way to know the questions ahead. If your case isn't complicated and doesn't have any kind of red flags, you shouldn't expect it to be hard. However you do need to show up prepared.

For a K1 interview, you do not need to prove the whole relationship, just evidence that you married within the 90 days and the bona fide relationship since the wedding. This usually includes: marriage certificate, wedding/honeymoon pictures, both names on utility bills, joint bank account, driver's license with same address, letter from employer saying your wife is beneficiary of your 401k and is on your emergency contact list, common health insurance, common car insurance, cards from friends & family, lease/property in both your names, etc.

Reviews of interviews are found in the Reviews: Embassy/USCIS & POE. You can search for your local USCIS office.

For the family letters, you can do that or friends. You can ask them to write and sign a letter that states they've known you and your wife for X amount of time, see you regularly and believe you are a legitimate couple that you are in a loving relationship and live under the same roof.

You should bring copies of everything. If you bring something they want to keep and you have not brought copies, they may keep the originals. For your pictures, you can make color copies of a couple pages of your albums and bring the albums as additional evidence.

Edited February 27, 2012 by SF2007

[mjkj 14]

Hello everybody,

My wife and I just sent out the paperwork needed for Adjustment of Status with their respective fees(money orders) etc. And as I was told the next step would be the biometrics and fingerprints appointment after I get the receipts of my 3 forms via Mail then an Interview appointment.

1. Would anyone give me a link to a site or a thread in this forum with a list of the interview Questionnaire please? I just want an idea on what those questions will be like please.

There's no link, what are the possible interview questionaire, anyway, not everybody got pick to have an interview for AOS the computer randomly pick, but its good to prepare.

2. For the bona fide process: I have a bag of letters and my wife has a bag as well of Letters we wrote to each other during high school. We kept them for memories.. Can I just take the originals? or should I make copies of every single letter?

Take the originals if she got the interview, you can make some copies too, to make sure if they need it in the file they can have the copies.

3. For the Bona fide process picture part: If I take my original albums. Will they keep them? My wife is very creative and made scrapbooks of them and they are very nice so shes worried they would want to keep them. Do they? Just to know so I would just print them out again and make a different album.

I took all different kind of pictures when i have my interview for Removal of status,( they dont pick me to interview on my Adjustment of status) i took our wedding albums, vacations albums, scrapbooks, they dont wanna keep pictures, usually they only keep documents, but i sent some pictures also when i file AOS.

4. I read we need bank statements with both our names in the same account: She added myself on her account like 5 months ago considering the interview could be my way in 5 months that would be 10months worth of statements: Is that enough ?

Yes you need the joint bank account, both your names, you can bring your drivers license coz you got the same address with ofcourse, im sure you got all identification with the address where you live together.

5. I was told to take Family Letters having them say they know we are married etc.. What is this exactly? Does it mean like having her grandma/mother/father make individuals letters saying like "I approve this marriage, they have been together for this long and etc etc? also this letter could easily be made by me which I'm not, BUT I know an IO wouldn't believe any letter like that, So I would like to make them see this is real. How do I proof to the IO that this family member did indeed write the letter? make a copy of the family member's ID included with the letter maybe??

You can ask some friend that knows you from the time you meet until now, or from the time you got married, to approve that they write that letter by themself not you, they need to put their phone number and address and signed, and it must be notarized.

You can ask your in-laws to write a letter close friend who are present when you got married. for me i did pass 5 notarized letters from the reverend that marry us, my in-laws, mom,dad,sis, and we write one from us we both sign and state their that they can call us anytime they want in our house phone or work, or they can visit us if they need.

6. Will the first interview be together? or will they separate us? I thought the 2nd was the one where they would ask you things separately. I'm a bit confused.

I'm not sure about AOS interview coz i dont have one, but the Removing of condition we got interviewed together it only took 3 minutes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Hope it help you gathering some ideas.

Goodluck!

[CharlineLP 3]

Hello everybody,

My wife and I just sent out the paperwork needed for Adjustment of Status with their respective fees(money orders) etc. And as I was told the next step would be the biometrics and fingerprints appointment after I get the receipts of my 3 forms via Mail then an Interview appointment.

1. Would anyone give me a link to a site or a thread in this forum with a list of the interview Questionnaire please? I just want an idea on what those questions will be like please.

Here's a link to all the interview experiences that the other vjers had http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/ , just select the city where your interview will take place. Just had my interview last week and thats what i did. It was a big help to have an idea on what to expect.

2. For the bona fide process: I have a bag of letters and my wife has a bag as well of Letters we wrote to each other during high school. We kept them for memories.. Can I just take the originals? or should I make copies of every single letter?

Take a copy of few. That way you dont have to give the original if they want to keep. Remember, its always better to come over prepared.

3. For the Bona fide process picture part: If I take my original albums. Will they keep them? My wife is very creative and made scrapbooks of them and they are very nice so shes worried they would want to keep them. Do they? Just to know so I would just print them out again and make a different album.

You can take the album with you because that'll show some sentimental value to them. Like the letters, just print some copy of your wedding pics just in case they want to keep some pictures with them. I dont think they'd want the whole album.

4. I read we need bank statements with both our names in the same account: She added myself on her account like 5 months ago considering the interview could be my way in 5 months that would be 10months worth of statements: Is that enough ?

Thats a good start and you dont need all those months of statements, my hubby asked our bank for a letter verifying that we have a joint account with them, but is there anything else that you can add like utility bills, insurances and other documents that has both your name in it besides your marriage certificate?

5. I was told to take Family Letters having them say they know we are married etc.. What is this exactly? Does it mean like having her grandma/mother/father make individuals letters saying like "I approve this marriage, they have been together for this long and etc etc? also this letter could easily be made by me which I'm not, BUT I know an IO wouldn't believe any letter like that, So I would like to make them see this is real. How do I proof to the IO that this family member did indeed write the letter? make a copy of the family member's ID included with the letter maybe??

Sorry, no idea on this one. However, you can bring some of those congratulations letter/cards when you got married.

6. Will the first interview be together? or will they separate us? I thought the 2nd was the one where they would ask you things separately. I'm a bit confused.

They will call you together. If the co for some reason had some doubts, they might seperate you which i seldom see on the interview experiences.it all depends on the officer conducting the intervew.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Answers in purple. Best of luck. Dont forget to pray!

Edited February 27, 2012 by CharlineLP