AOS Interview Cincinnati

bly · November 16, 2006

We had our interview this morning in down town cincinnati. After spending 30 minutes finding somewhere to park my over sized truck we were one minute late to the AOS interview. (Note to self: drive wifes car not F-350 Crew Cab long bed down town. I was refused parking at 4 lots!)

10:00 AM interview time.

9:55 Arrive and clear security, luckily no line.

10:01 Waiting room, we are literally the only people inside, go to the window and check in.

10:10 called back by a very nice woman, Mrs Bennett (Maybe her name??)

Raised our right hand and we were sworn in.

Checked our ID (passport both me and my wife).

She asked my wife about 10 to 15 questions, nothing besides what was already on the I-485.

Asked my wife how we met.

Asked if I still had the same employment but didn't ask for verification.

Asked me what proof we had of a real marriage. I explained this was hard for us because our bank wouldn't allow my wife to join my accounts until she has a SS#. She said she hears that alot. We had our health insurance card with both of our names on it and I had several pictures of us together which she didn't even look at. She kept a copy of the insurance card for her records and then said we were approved.

My wifes EAD card was approved yesterday and she told us to shred that the day we get the green card. She told us if we can wait to get our SS# with the GC so we wouldn't get the restriction (already knew that).

She explain about the 2 year GC condition and told us to bring a lot of proof to that interview. (knew that!)

We should have our green card in 2 to 3 weeks (so she says!).

I asked about getting a stamp so my wife would visit home and was denied. We were told we were approved and everything was in order, we'd have the GC in a couple weeks, if we don't have it in 30 days we can infopass and they will stamp us at that time.

All in all like everything else besides the waiting it was really a breeze, we left the office at 10:22.

Now just waiting on the email updates, welcome to Amercia letter, and the white/green card.

Brad