K1 AOS GREEN CARD INTERVIEW

[LarryHickman 181]

Hi fellow VJ friends, I noticed in my email future USPS  mail I’ll receive my wife is getting the AOS interview notice and I checked and yes we have an interview scheduled and I’ll know the date once I get home and open the letter. 

 

Just as a reminder...any suggestions for our green card K1? 

[LarryHickman 181]

What is a list of things I need to bring to the interview? 

[Dashinka 24,592]

2 minutes ago, LarryHickman said:

What is a list of things I need to bring to the interview? 

The letter should outline what to bring, but I suggest bringing a copy of your K1 package with you as well.

 

Good Luck!

[LarryHickman 181]

16 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

The letter should outline what to bring, but I suggest bringing a copy of your K1 package with you as well.

 

Good Luck!

Thanks I just need to freshen up I didn’t expect green card interview so soon.

[Pitaya 2,577]

We luckily took those rather cryptic instructions on the ASC Appointment for AOS interview very literally. We brought with us to the interview every shred of paper that we had received from USCIS/NVC/DOS, and all original certificates/documents/paperwork that we had amassed thus far in your immigration journey. 

 

It was a good thing that we did. During the AOS interview, the IO wanted to see the my original divorce decree, claiming that he didn't have a copy of it in his files. I know that I had previously sent a copy of the divorce decree with my initial I-129F visa petition, the prior year. With all of our original, hard to replace documents I had individually placed them in plastic page presentation sleeves, and had made good color laser copies of this documents. So, I was able to show the IO the original and the copy for comparison. I asked him to compare the two, he could keep the copy for their records, and we kept the original. I am pretty certain that helped avert us from getting an RFEfor a document, and an associated delay in processing. He could have asked for many of documents or papers. 

 

HTH, YMMV

Good luck on your immigration journey.

[LarryHickman 181]

27 minutes ago, Pitaya (火龙果) said:

We luckily took those rather cryptic instructions on the ASC Appointment for AOS interview very literally. We brought with us to the interview every shred of paper that we had received from USCIS/NVC/DOS, and all original certificates/documents/paperwork that we had amassed thus far in your immigration journey. 

 

It was a good thing that we did. During the AOS interview, the IO wanted to see the my original divorce decree, claiming that he didn't have a copy of it in his files. I know that I had previously sent a copy of the divorce decree with my initial I-129F visa petition, the prior year. With all of our original, hard to replace documents I had individually placed them in plastic page presentation sleeves, and had made good color laser copies of this documents. So, I was able to show the IO the original and the copy for comparison. I asked him to compare the two, he could keep the copy for their records, and we kept the original. I am pretty certain that helped avert us from getting an RFEfor a document, and an associated delay in processing. He could have asked for many of documents or papers. 

 

HTH, YMMV

Good luck on your immigration journey.

Thanks Pitaya, I have no idea yet what is in  the letter or what states i need to bring but I’ll check mail tonight...I know interview is scheduled definitely. This was fast I just married in March and mailed AOS in May and I was hearing a year maybe two for greencard interview. I’m happy to get this moving. I to have been married before and I sent my original divorce decree to the Embassy interview in Bolivia for my wife then fiance and a copy with the I 129F initially ...I no longer have a certified copy maybe I should get another?

Edited July 19, 2019 by LarryHickman

[Pitaya 2,577]

8 minutes ago, LarryHickman said:

Thanks Pitaya, I have no idea yet what the letter states but I’ll check mail tonight...I know interview is scheduled definitely. This was fast I just married in March and mailed AOS in May and I was hearing a year maybe two for greencard interview. I’m happy to get this moving. I to have been married before and I sent my original divorce decree to the Embassy interview in Bolivia and a copy with I 129F....I no longer have a certified copy maybe I should get another?

Oh wow! The Bolivia consulate wanted the original divorce decree document? They all seem to have their own little quirks and requirements. 

 

You may want to get another certified copy for your files. You never know when you will need it. You could try filling out this USCIS form for return of you original, https://www.uscis.gov/g-884.  Not sure, how well or prompt that works.

 

Good luck on your immigration journey.

 

 

 

[LarryHickman 181]

2 minutes ago, Pitaya (火龙果) said:

Oh wow! The Bolivia consulate wanted the original divorce decree document? They all seem to have their own little quirks and requirements. 

 

 

 

Yeah I almost @!@! in my pants they needed it and my wife’s interview was coming up in less than a week in La Paz...I had to DHL it next day air ..very expensive! 

Thank 

Im going to get another certified copy just really interested to see what is requested once o get home and open the letter.

 

thanks!

[Pitaya 2,577]

Maybe they have rewritten the appointment form. But, in our letter, in the section titled "What to Bring".... the amount of potential evidence that they could want to view is pretty thorough. Basically, bring any evidence that you may have related to this endeavor.

 

[LarryHickman 181]

3 hours ago, Pitaya (火龙果) said:

Maybe they have rewritten the appointment form. But, in our letter, in the section titled "What to Bring".... the amount of potential evidence that they could want to view is pretty thorough. Basically, bring any evidence that you may have related to this endeavor.

 

Can you look at what they sent me for the K1 AOS  interview list and tell me if this is EXACTLY    what they sent you or it looks personal to me? Attached is what I received in mail with my personal info removed, thanks 

 

[Pitaya 2,577]

It looks the same, yours is kind of hard to read....upside down, wrinkled, and dark.... It is not personal letter, it is the same form letter that USCIS sends out to all AOS interviewees. 

 

I am referring to checkboxes #4, #10, #15 #16. Basically, those and with the others (as necessary), we interpreted to mean every scrap of paper, notice, etc., that we had accumulated thus far in our immigration journey. Taking that tact, we brought everything we had, realizing that the IO can, and often do, ask for original documents at these interviews. Our tactic worked, we had the document(s) he asked for, likely avoiding a delaying and frustrating RFE.

 

YMMV

 

[C90 376]

12 hours ago, LarryHickman said:

Hi fellow VJ friends, I noticed in my email future USPS  mail I’ll receive my wife is getting the AOS interview notice and I checked and yes we have an interview scheduled and I’ll know the date once I get home and open the letter. 

 

Just as a reminder...any suggestions for our green card K1? 

Just follow the instructions on the interview letter, it's pretty clear what you need. We had my interview last week and got approved. The officer didn't need most of the stuff on there except extra evidence, my passport with visa and both of our DL's, but we did take everything and you should def take everything on the list. As long as you're well prepared you should be fine.

[HRQX 4,145]

5 hours ago, LarryHickman said:

Can you look at what they sent me for the K1 AOS  interview list and tell me if this is EXACTLY    what they sent you or it looks personal to me? Attached is what I received in mail with my personal info removed, thanks 

 

I got the same info:

[LarryHickman 181]

7 minutes ago, HRQX said:

I got the same info:

Thank you HRQX, I’m just a little stressed at the moment we get an interview notice 4 months after we marry and I simply wasn't expecting it. I have most of not all information they need except certified divorce decree.....I had to send that to the Embassy for my wife’s interview for Visa so I need to get another certified copy as I assume a copy will not work for green card interview. It’s incredible it’s this fast so fast we haven’t even got EAD or advanced parole approval and I filled those forms out in May. 

 

All this time the time frame has been up to two years waiting for green card interview and of course being Miami/ Ft. Lauderdale I expected a very long wait but here we are 4 weeks until interview for the both of us. 

 

Sorry guys my notice was upside down and a little hard to read.

[Highmystic 234]

15 hours ago, LarryHickman said:

Hi fellow VJ friends, I noticed in my email future USPS  mail I’ll receive my wife is getting the AOS interview notice and I checked and yes we have an interview scheduled and I’ll know the date once I get home and open the letter. 

 

Just as a reminder...any suggestions for our green card K1? 

We created 2 folders,  one containing all the originals, and one containing the copies of everything included in the original folders.  We  handed the IO the copy folder, and she never asked to see any original.  The reason we did this, we wanted to take everything and anything that has to do with the whole journey, but we wanted to retain the security of the originals that can not be replaced.   The IO folder was pretty large anyways, so she had pretty much everything, but we had whatever she wanted to see if she did not have something.