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Yes, it can happen, but it is not typical. If they were called back for a second interview, then I would suggest they seek a lawyer and prepare for a Stokes.

It seems the OP strongly reluctant to mention which visa she/he adjusting was from. Actually it is an easy question, really. No need a rocket science to figure it out.

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It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop

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I adjusted from J-1. It was so long ago they never asked my about my visa on the interview anyway.

What I am strongly reluctant to is the unnecessary attitude resulted from desire to get information totally unrelated to the thread topic. Unless you didn't bother to read it, you would know I mention on numerous occasions that this thread is about list that is related to ALL Family Based AOS interviews regardless of the visa you are adjusting from.

To everyone else:

Your interviewer simply assumes that you should know the answers right away to all of these related questions since you are one family unit. It is not uncommon for a beneficiary as well as petitioner to be nervous during the interview for various reasons, and it is much harder to recall the information you've rarely discussed with your spouse under such conditions and simply doesnt make any sense.

We are memorising every little thing when we are getting prepared for any useless exam or test, but when you go to the immigration EXAMINER, to the one of the MOST important interviews in your life - thats when you choose to proudly ignore all the prepping since "we have a real marriage anyway"? This kind of approach many times resulted in second stokes interview.

Please, use this list for your reference, as a checklist for preparations for interview, or just look through it out of curiosity - don't be intimidated, these are all easy questions.

Hope it will help you feel more confident on your interviews and to get your residentship in no time at all ;)

Good luck

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Actually IT IS related question. There is a big different between adjusting from family based visa and adjusting from work, student, and tourist visa. That's why there are different forums for each category - if you care to read- from send the application to the interview experience. I've always told people to post to the proper forum to avoid confusion but they did not listen.

Anyhow, congrats for approval. Again, if you are really wanted to help - which reflects to your screen name- please fill your timeline in. Thank you.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat

- Sun Tzu-

It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop

-Confucius-

 

-I am the beneficiary and my post is not reflecting my petitioner's point of views-

 

                                       Lifting Condition (I-751)

 

*Mailed I-751 package (06/21/2017) to CSC

*NOA-1 date (06/23/2017)

*NOA-1 received (06/28/2017)

*Check cashed (06/27/2017)

*Biometric Received (07/10/2017)

*Biometric Appointment (07/20/2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Okay, then I moved this thread to the correct forum, but I had already assumed that. It was not unrelated.

Unless you did not bother to read, not all interviews are the same, and it can depend on the visa type you are adjusting from. Someone adjusting from a family based visa has already had their relationship validity vetted at their visa interview. That is why only about half of those adjusting from a K-1 even get an interview. The others are approved without the need for an interview. When they do get interviewed, the interview is usually fairly short and easy going. Sure, it can happen where an IO will suspect something fishy with a K-1 case, but not typically. This is what I was saying before. This is what others that adjusted from a K-1 also stated in this thread about their interview experience.

If someone is adjusting from a student, work or tourist visa, then they have an interview. Their relationship has not yet been vetted. They may need to answer more questions about their relationship than someone adjusting from a family based visa.

If people want to go over questions they might be asked before having an interview, then they certainly can. My husband and I did not, as we had known each other for years and knew each other well. Yes, we had/have a real marriage and were not worried about anyone thinking otherwise. Our interview lasted about 5 minutes.

Wanting to help others is good. Scaring people is not. Most people do not get a Stokes interview, no matter which visa they are adjusting from. You even stated you were not asked nearly as many as were on the list you posted. Sharing your list in case anyone else wants to look through the questions is fine. I put it in the forum that applied to your AOS interview, and others that will definitely have an interview, those adjusting from visas other than family based.

Link to K-1 instructions for Ciudad Juarez, Mexico > https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/K1/CDJ_Ciudad-Juarez-2-22-2021.pdf

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We were asked about 8-10 questions ( mostly from I-485) and it seemed like were already approved before interview. IO barely looked at pictures and didn't even ask for USC birth certificate, divorce decrees or our marriage certificate. We were approved on spot and we were not drilled with endless questions. If I had read this post before my interview I would be freaked out. The list of questions looks scary, but I am glad you were approved.

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05/29/14 (day 6) emal/txt message NOA1

06/03/14 (day 11) paper NOA1 arrived in the mail

06/07/14 (day 15) Biometrics notice in the mail/ appointment June 19, 2:00pm

06/19/14 (day 27) Biometrics done

06/26/14 (day 34) email notification I-485 case status "Testing and Interview"

07/18/14 (day 56) email/txt notification Interview letter was sent on the mail. Interview date 08/20/14

07/21/14 (day 59) hard copy in the mail for AOS interview date

08/05/14 (day 74) email/txt notification EAD card is in production (59 days after Biometrics)

08/08/14 (day 77) email/txt notification EAD card has been mailed

08/09/14 (day 78) EAD in hand (4 days after "card production" notification)

08/20/14 (day 89) AOS Interview -APPROVED!!! 2 hrs after interview received text/email notification "card in production". 5 hrs after interview received text/email notification I-130 has been approved/notice of permanent resident status has been registered

08/28/14 (day 97) NOA2/Welcome to USA notice arrived in the mail

08/28/14 (day 97) email/txt notification Green Card has been mailed with tracking # -sent priority mail 2-Day

08/29/14 (day 98) GREEN CARD in hand delivered at 1:17pm . Yes it is green! :dance::D:dance::D:dance::D:dance:

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08/06/16 (Day 5) NOA I-797 Received on the mail dated 08/02/2016

09/20/16 (Day 50) 45 days after receiving NOA -1yr permit extension- I filed service request to inquire about Biometrics appointment letter

09/29/16 (Day 59) Biometrics appointment letter received dated 9/24/16

10/11/16 (Day 71) Biometrics completed. *Also, received on the mail response letter from previous service request filed with copy of Biometrics appointment letter.

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WOW seriously! These are all the questions you guys got asked???????????? That's insane. For us they asked for our driver's license, went over the yes/no questions on the AOS form, and then asked if we can show something. We told we brought what we filed, plus a photo album. Photo album was the winner: we started showing some photos, and who is who and 5 minutes later the IO was like "okay that's enough. You guys are approved". By the time we got home (an hour later) online said card production ordered, and a week later the card was in the mail. I'm suprised you got so many questions....insane...

I recently passed AOS interview and wish the same to everyone in community!

I thought some people would find it helpful if I post my list of questions that I used for preparation. It is also available in .doc format attached on the bottom of this post.

Development of Your Relationship
How long have you known each other?
How did you meet?
When did we meet in person?
Where did you meet the first time?
Who approached the other and how?
Did you make arrangements to meet again?
Did you exchange phone numbers?
When did you meet next?
Where did you go? How did you get there? Describe it.
Did you and your spouse go anywhere together at that time?
Where did you go for dates?
Where were you living at the time? Where was your spouse living?
Did your wife visit you before the marrige and where?
What did the two of you have in common?
When did your relationship turn romantic?
When was the last time you had sex with your wife?
where was the last place you had sex with your wife?
What kind of birth control do you use?
What color is your wife underwear today?
How long was it before you decided to get married?
Who proposed to whom?
Why did you decide to have a [long, short] engagement?
Did your parents approve of the match? Why or why not?
What do I love about my fiance?
The Wedding
Why was my fiance's first marriage not working out?
When did my fiance propose?
When did you decide to get married? Where were you at the time?
Did you live together before marriage?
Where were you living at the time? Where was your spouse living?
When did you decide to get married? Where were you at the time?
Where had you purchased these rings? Did you and your spouse purchase them together?
When and where did you get married? How did you and your spouse get to the church, courthouse, etc.?
Was there music or other entertainment?
How many people attended your wedding?
Who were the witnesses to the ceremony?
Who were the bridesmaids/groomsmen?
Did any of your, and your spouse's, family members attend? If so, who?
Did each of your parents attend?
Did you exchange wedding rings?
Do you have any photos of the ceremony and /or reception?
Did you have a reception after the ceremony?
Where was it held?
Describe the reception.
How late did the guests stay?
If you did not have a reception, what did you do after the wedding ceremony?
Describe the place where you lived right after the marriage. Number of bedrooms and bathrooms; furnishings; color of walls, floor coverings, appliances, etc; type of air conditioning, heating, etc; # of telephones, televisions, etc. Do you have cable television?
Did you go on a honeymoon? If so, when and where?
Regular Routines
Who gets up first? At what time?
How many alarm clocks do you set in the morning?
Who makes breakfast?
What do each of you eat for breakfast?
Does your spouse drink coffee in the morning?
What day is your garbage picked up?
Who cleans the house?
How often do you have to do laundry and who does it?
When do you do laundry and when was the last time it was done?
Who takes care of paying the bills?
Do you have a cat, dog, or other pet? Who feeds it? Who walks it (or cleans its kitty litter box, cage, etc.)?
Do you and/or your spouse attend regular religious services? Where?
Where do you keep the spare toilet paper?
What time do the working spouse or spouses arrive home?
The Cooking
Where do you shop for groceries? Do you go together with your spouse? How do you get there?
Who cooks the meals at the house?
How many times a week on average do you eat out?
What is your favorite restaurant for special occasions? For weekly outings?
What is your spouse's favorite/least food? What is your favorite/least food?
Is there a particular food that you eat every week?
Does your spouse drink coffee? If so, does he or she use cream and/or sugar?
Do you have a barbecue grill? Do you use it?
Other Family Members
What are the names of family members: parents, brothers and sisters?
Have you met each other’s parents?
How often do you see each other’s parents?
When was the last time you saw them? Where? For how long?
How do each of you get along with your parents-in-law?
On important holidays, do you buy individual gifts for your parents-in-law? Do they buy individual gifts for you?
Home Technology
How many land-line telephones are in your house? Where are they?
Do you have an answering machine on your home telephone? Who checks the messages?
How many televisions are in the house? In which rooms? Do you watch shows together, or separately? Name one show that you always watch together.
Do you record any television shows?
Do you subscribe to a DVD rental service?
Do you have internet? Who is your provider?
Does your spouse listen to the radio? What station?
Do you have a camera? Who uses it most often? Who takes pictures at important family occasions?
How many cars do you have?
Do you have a garage? Who parks in it? Do you use a garage door opener?
In the Bedroom
Describe your bedroom. Where do you keep your clothes? Where does your spouse keep his or her clothes? Where are the bathroom towels kept? Where do you keep the dirty clothes?
Do you have closets in your bedroom and how many?
Are the closets built insede the walls or not?
Do you have a regular mattress, futon, or waterbed?
What size is your bed (Twin, Queen, or King)?
How many windows are there in your bedroom?
What color are your spouse’s pajamas?
Who sleeps on each side of the bed?
What form of contraception (birth control) do you use?
When was your wife’s last menstrual period?
Do either of you read or watch television before going to sleep? Do you have lamps next to your bed?
Have you ever had an argument that resulted in one of you sleeping in another room? Who, and which room?
Do you leave any lights on when you go to sleep at night?
The Rest of the House
Do you have windows in the kitchen and in the bathroom and how many?
How many keys opens the doors to your appartment?
Do you live in a home or apartment? Who pays the mortgage or rent? How much is it?
How many people live in the house?
Is there a carpet in your front hallway? What color?Is your sofa a regular one or does it have a pull-out bed?
What type of curtains or window coverings are in your living room? What color?
How many staircases are in your house?
How many sinks, toilets, and showers are there in your house or apartment in total?
Where do you keep extra rolls of toilet paper?
Where do you keep your dirty clothes?
What is the color of the laundry bag?
Do you have a shower curtain or a glass door?
Where did you get the furniture? Was it already there, did you buy it, was it a gift, or did it come from your, or your spouseâs, previous residence?
Have you ever had houseguests sleep there?
Where is the garbage kept in the kitchen?
Do you have any pets? What kind, what are their names, and describe them?
What public means of transportation is closest to where you live?
How many floors are in your building and what floor you live on?
Do you have a fire escape where you both live?
What color is the microwave?
What colors are your: refrigirator, kitchen table, coach, computer, etc?
Celebrations
What is husband's birthday?
What is wife's birthday?
What did you do for your spouse’s last birthday?
What did you give/get as a gift for a birthday?
When is your wedding anniversary?
When is your first date anniversary?
What religious holidays do you celebrate together?
What’s the most important holiday of the year in your household? Where do you typically celebrate it?
What did the two of you do last New Year’s Eve? Fourth of July?
Have you and your spouse gone to see a movie or other form of entertainment lately? When, and what did you see?
Do you go to church with your wife and where?
Joint stuff
Do you have a bank account together? Where? What kind of account? (Checking, savings).
Did you file a joint tax return this year? Do you have a copy with you?
Do you have an insurance policy listing your spouse as the beneficiary? If so, do you have a copy?
Do you have any utility bills, or receipts from items you have purchased together?
Do you own any property together? What property? Did you bring copies of the documents with you?
Where do you live now? (If different from where you lived right after the marriage, then go over the same questions as above). How much is the rent? When is it paid? How do you pay it?
When did you move into your present appartment?
How long have you lived in your current address?
What kind of automobile do you and your spouse have? Describe them.
Have you taken any trips or vacations together? Do you have photos from these trips?
What other documentation do you have to show that you are living together as husband and wife?
Where did you get the furniture? Was it already there, did you buy it, was it a gift, or did it come from your, or your spouse's, previous residence?
Do you know your spouse's family members? If so, which ones? If your spouse has children from a previous marriage, their names, ages, where they live, and where they go to school, if applicable.
Did you go to the doctor with your spose for medical examination for the interview?
Where was the medical examination done?
How much did you pay for medical examination?
When was the medical examination done?
Knowing each other
How old both of you?
Name and Date of Birth of wife.
Name and Date of Birth of husband.
Where was he born?
Where was she born?
When did my fiance divorce?
Do I have any brothers and sisters?
Does my fiance's have any brothers and sisters?
Do you know your spouseâs family members? If so, which ones? If your spouse has children from a previous marriage, their names, ages, where they live, and where they go to school, if applicable.
Where do my fiance's parents live?
Does he have children? Do you know how old they are?
Do you plan to have children with your wife?
Where have you lived in the past 5 years?
What was your last address outside the USA?
Who are your employers for the last 5 years?
Where does your spouse work? What days of the week? What hours? What is the salary, if you know?
When did your spouse begin working with her present employer?
Where do you work? What days of the week do you work? What hours do you work? What is your salary?
When did your begin working with her present employer?
What is your telephone # at work?
What is your spouse's telephone # at work?
When was the last time your spouse got a vacation from work?
When was the last vacation you and your spouse took together?
Has your spose ever travaled since you got married?
Where and when did she travel?
How long did her trip last?
Do you or you spose smoke and what kind of cigarettes?
Does your wife use any medication?
Do you or your wife have any scars or tattoos? If so, where on the body?
Was your spouse inspected by US immigration officer at the point of entry?
What is the name of your spouse's prior husband and the date their marrige ended?
Day Before
Did you or your spouse go to work yesterday? If so, at what time did you and/or your spouse leave the house and return?
Did you eat dinner together last night? Did anyone else have dinner with you? What did you have?
What time was dinner served? Who cooked it?
Did you watch TV after dinner? What shows did you watch?
Did you have the air conditioning or heater on?
At what time did you go to bed? Who went to bed first?
Did you have breakfast? Where and what did you eat?
Did you or your spouse take a shower?
Did you come to the interview together? Who drove?
I hope this will help in your preparation!
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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Mexico
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WOW seriously! These are all the questions you guys got asked???????????? That's insane. For us they asked for our driver's license, went over the yes/no questions on the AOS form, and then asked if we can show something. We told we brought what we filed, plus a photo album. Photo album was the winner: we started showing some photos, and who is who and 5 minutes later the IO was like "okay that's enough. You guys are approved". By the time we got home (an hour later) online said card production ordered, and a week later the card was in the mail. I'm suprised you got so many questions....insane...

They were not asked all of those questions. They said they were asked around 30, and did not specify which ones they were asked, or if they were on this list. They found these through Google.

This is a list compiled of questions found for google search "AOS interview questions", many different lists filtered out and boiled down to one complete list

My timeline is :

June 2 - AOS sent

July 7 - Biomethrics

July 15 - Interview Letter

August 18 - EAD received

August 21 - Interview passed, around 30 questions asked total, despite the fact that interview looked like a simple conversation.

August 30 - GC received

Link to K-1 instructions for Ciudad Juarez, Mexico > https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/K1/CDJ_Ciudad-Juarez-2-22-2021.pdf

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Belgium
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I have my interview tomorrow, so went through these, just in case. Only a few of these I wasn't able to answer, like what color underwear I am wearing. I actually had to take a peek haha.

 

But all the other questions are just simple things you know from each other. I had to practice the names of my parents with my husband as they are very odd names, even for my country, and they are difficult to pronounce so that the officer can actually understand that it's the same as on my documents lol.

 

And I can just imagine them picking out one or two questions at random, no?

 

Someone else reported just a few weeks ago that they were asked what color their microwave was. And some of these things are normal questions like when you met, or when the wedding was, and what it looked like, or who sleeps on which side of the bed.

 

I am not more freaked out, but actually reassured by the fact that these are very normal questions (apart from the sexual stuff, which is none of their business, I would think). I know the answer to all of them apart from the odd one that I assume they will not ask (color of underwear, exact dates of when we met from memory (we had 7 meetings, so I only know the first and the last, ...)

 

So thank you, OP.

I understand you have had some backfire for posting this, but this definitely helped me already. And that was what you were trying to do.

I am more confident about going to the interview tomorrow morning.

 

I understand it could be read as if this is the list to con people, but it's good to go over them to see if there was something I did not know (birthplaces of each others parents might be something for some people, for example).

 

Thanks!

 

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