Removal of Conditions on Green card for K-1 interview.

[lotusrose1987 11]

Next summer, my husband and I will be putting in for his removal of conditions. I am wondering what the interview experience has been for people if you had to do one. We have joint bank accounts, credit cards (I added him to mine, he added me to his when I got one), our lease(s), car insurance, I am on his medical insurance from work. We are mostly homebodies, but I have a few pictures of us when we went to museums and stuff like that. We do not have children, but we have three cats (two he went with me to adopt the cats) and my horse. I was working until we moved for his job, and I am currently still looking.  My worry  is they will questions the state of our "Wedding" at the interview. We were married at town hall on St. Patrick's day in 2017 because that was the day I could get off from one of my jobs, because I had two jobs at the time he came over. We told everyone we were going, but my mother did not come because she was taking care of my disabled sister and most of my friends had to work, so nobody was in attendance. I do have a picture the Justice of the Peace took for us. Should I be worried about this at all? I do have he wedding cards my immediate family gave us and couple of my friends. 

[Ketsuban 1,034]

22 minutes ago, lotusrose1987 said:

Next summer, my husband and I will be putting in for his removal of conditions. I am wondering what the interview experience has been for people if you had to do one. We have joint bank accounts, credit cards (I added him to mine, he added me to his when I got one), our lease(s), car insurance, I am on his medical insurance from work. We are mostly homebodies, but I have a few pictures of us when we went to museums and stuff like that. We do not have children, but we have three cats (two he went with me to adopt the cats) and my horse. I was working until we moved for his job, and I am currently still looking.  My worry  is they will questions the state of our "Wedding" at the interview. We were married at town hall on St. Patrick's day in 2017 because that was the day I could get off from one of my jobs, because I had two jobs at the time he came over. We told everyone we were going, but my mother did not come because she was taking care of my disabled sister and most of my friends had to work, so nobody was in attendance. I do have a picture the Justice of the Peace took for us. Should I be worried about this at all? I do have he wedding cards my immediate family gave us and couple of my friends. 

We got married in a styrofoam chapel above a Subway restaurant with three people in attendance (none of them were our parents) and I removed my conditions earlier this year. On that front, you'll be fine. It's kind of hard to arrange a massive wedding when you only have 90 days to plan it I didn't even have that reason to have such a minimalist wedding, we were just lazy and wanted to get the paperwork out of the way.

 

For removal of conditions, joint finances, joint living quarters (lease/mortgage/deed) and joint everything ever are your key to getting the 10 year card. They can't get enough of the stuff. Where some people trip up is sending only recent evidence. USCIS wants to see stuff spanning your entire marriage, or as far back to your wedding date as possible. Obviously no one rushes out to the bank on the day of their wedding to set up an account, but even a month or two after you get married and onwards from there is great.

[lotusrose1987 11]

16 minutes ago, Ketsuban said:

We got married in a styrofoam chapel above a Subway restaurant with three people in attendance (none of them were our parents) and I removed my conditions earlier this year. On that front, you'll be fine. It's kind of hard to arrange a massive wedding when you only have 90 days to plan it I didn't even have that reason to have such a minimalist wedding, we were just lazy and wanted to get the paperwork out of the way.

 

For removal of conditions, joint finances, joint living quarters (lease/mortgage/deed) and joint everything ever are your key to getting the 10 year card. They can't get enough of the stuff. Where some people trip up is sending only recent evidence. USCIS wants to see stuff spanning your entire marriage, or as far back to your wedding date as possible. Obviously no one rushes out to the bank on the day of their wedding to set up an account, but even a month or two after you get married and onwards from there is great.

Thanks for the tip to include stuff all the way back. I will definitely will make sure I get the joint bank account statements going back to when we opened our first joint account together. I can't really show anything for our car, we have Progressive too, but I can at least show he is on the car insurance for my car. And that the rent is paid from our joint account. I'm really lazy and still have a personal account linked to my other bills (including car insurance) for auto payment, so I just transfer money from our joint account to mine to pay car insurance and my student loans and the car payment as we use the checks I still have from my personal account to pay the car bill. I guess I can highlight on the statements showing the transfers between our joint to my personal and include an explanation.  

[Villanelle 4,121]

We were married at local court as well and you do not want to see our wedding pics! I had been married in a court before as well as attended several friends court weddings and they were always done in the judges chambers or an empty courtroom- so when my husband came on the K and we set up the court wedding with the clerk I assumed it would be the same...nope. The local court where we lived at the time did the weddings 'in between' court sessions. So we showed up and there was a FULL courtroom- a blend of traffic and criminal cases along with the front row consisting of an entire row of INMATES in orange jumpsuits and handcuffs.  😭🙄🤣 My mother took pictures but there was no way to avoid the inmates appearing in them. It was all good though! They all cheered at the you are man and wife part and rattled their chains while we kissed. LOL. When I sent the AOS I made a note that said something like we do not know nor did we invite the convicts in the photos to our wedding that it was just how the court was. 

[Jenny17655 283]

On 11/6/2018 at 10:42 PM, Damara said:

We were married at local court as well and you do not want to see our wedding pics! I had been married in a court before as well as attended several friends court weddings and they were always done in the judges chambers or an empty courtroom- so when my husband came on the K and we set up the court wedding with the clerk I assumed it would be the same...nope. The local court where we lived at the time did the weddings 'in between' court sessions. So we showed up and there was a FULL courtroom- a blend of traffic and criminal cases along with the front row consisting of an entire row of INMATES in orange jumpsuits and handcuffs.  😭🙄🤣 My mother took pictures but there was no way to avoid the inmates appearing in them. It was all good though! They all cheered at the you are man and wife part and rattled their chains while we kissed. LOL. When I sent the AOS I made a note that said something like we do not know nor did we invite the convicts in the photos to our wedding that it was just how the court was. 

Priceless

 

[ineedadisplayname 443]

On 11/6/2018 at 9:42 PM, Damara said:

We were married at local court as well and you do not want to see our wedding pics! I had been married in a court before as well as attended several friends court weddings and they were always done in the judges chambers or an empty courtroom- so when my husband came on the K and we set up the court wedding with the clerk I assumed it would be the same...nope. The local court where we lived at the time did the weddings 'in between' court sessions. So we showed up and there was a FULL courtroom- a blend of traffic and criminal cases along with the front row consisting of an entire row of INMATES in orange jumpsuits and handcuffs.  😭🙄🤣 My mother took pictures but there was no way to avoid the inmates appearing in them. It was all good though! They all cheered at the you are man and wife part and rattled their chains while we kissed. LOL. When I sent the AOS I made a note that said something like we do not know nor did we invite the convicts in the photos to our wedding that it was just how the court was. 

That is a very memorable/unique wedding!

[SalishSea 16,818]

On 11/6/2018 at 7:42 PM, Damara said:

We were married at local court as well and you do not want to see our wedding pics! I had been married in a court before as well as attended several friends court weddings and they were always done in the judges chambers or an empty courtroom- so when my husband came on the K and we set up the court wedding with the clerk I assumed it would be the same...nope. The local court where we lived at the time did the weddings 'in between' court sessions. So we showed up and there was a FULL courtroom- a blend of traffic and criminal cases along with the front row consisting of an entire row of INMATES in orange jumpsuits and handcuffs.  😭🙄🤣 My mother took pictures but there was no way to avoid the inmates appearing in them. It was all good though! They all cheered at the you are man and wife part and rattled their chains while we kissed. LOL. When I sent the AOS I made a note that said something like we do not know nor did we invite the convicts in the photos to our wedding that it was just how the court was. 

This is a fantastic story!   ❤️

[Ontarkie 13,922]

~~Moved to ROC from AOS Family- THe OP is asking about ROC~~

[jcra615 53]

I wouldn't be worried, it sounds like you have plenty of evidence...and plenty of time to assemble the petition. Not all I-751 cases have an interview; I have heard that if you didn't have an AOS interview they may be more likely to do an I-751 interview, but I just submitted my husband's I-751 so I can't verify that!

 

Also, one year after you submit the I-751 you can submit the N-400 for naturalization, so you may have just a citizenship interview!