Does spouse get interviewed separately?

[Aiya 6]

Hello! My marriage-based AOS interview is in a week and I'm preparing for it.

Do my spouse and I get interviewed together or separately and does the officer ask us both questions? Any tips would help! Thank you!

[AJ2019 58]

Hi, we got interviewed last week. We were interviewed together, but I heard that it's up to the USCIS officer to decide the day of how they want to interview.  My husband got asked all the questions really. He was asked on how we met, how long we were engaged, married, etc. That was the longest narrative question we were asked.

 

I was handling the documents and evidence we brought. You definitely need to bring originals of all documents, and copies of your IDs (including any EAD/AP you received) front and back. Hard copy of pictures, they keep some. We brought a ton, but they wanted the ones where we had no masks on. Also, ones where we had our families in. We were asked to identify the family members in the pictures, as well. 

[AJ2019 58]

Btw, good luck!  I noticed you are having interview in NYC, we did too. Hopefully, you will have the nice lady we had!

[AJ2019 58]

One more thing, I just recalled. Remember to bring your latest Tax Return / Tax Transcripts with supporting documents. They take that. 

[Aiya 6]

Thank you so much for sharing your tips and experience! Hopefully, it'll be good for us too.

[SuznAaron 121]

21 hours ago, AJ2019 said:

Hi, we got interviewed last week. We were interviewed together, but I heard that it's up to the USCIS officer to decide the day of how they want to interview.  My husband got asked all the questions really. He was asked on how we met, how long we were engaged, married, etc. That was the longest narrative question we were asked.

 

I was handling the documents and evidence we brought. You definitely need to bring originals of all documents, and copies of your IDs (including any EAD/AP you received) front and back. Hard copy of pictures, they keep some. We brought a ton, but they wanted the ones where we had no masks on. Also, ones where we had our families in. We were asked to identify the family members in the pictures, as well. 

This was exactly our experience to a T in Virginia. 

[johnsonalfred 0]

Yes, depends on the situation. I found an interesting link for you. https://www.kolinsky.ca/child-support-and-spousal-support/

Hope this will help.

Edited April 26, 2021 by johnsonalfred

[Dashinka 24,593]

23 hours ago, Aiya said:

Hello! My marriage-based AOS interview is in a week and I'm preparing for it.

Do my spouse and I get interviewed together or separately and does the officer ask us both questions? Any tips would help! Thank you!

I would say most of the time you will be interviewed together, but occasionally they may separate you.  I have been hearing a few stories of spouses being separated for the interview not necessarily to conduct a Stokes Interview, but rather due to Covid restrictions.  I know when we had our interview (some time ago) we were interviewed together.

 

Good Luck!

[SalishSea 17,928]

We were interviewed together. 
 

Don’t forget to bring an updated I-94.