Uploading additional information prior to I-485 AOS interview

[MollyBob 2]

Hello! My child (16) and I have our GC interviews next week with our US citizen spouse/stepdad. 

 

Just received a "courtesy" email saying we should upload additional evidence prior to the interview, then stating examples under the headings of I-130 and I-485.

 

Our I-130s are already approved as we did not file concurrently, our I-485s were filed after approval. Do we need to upload additional/updated evidence if we're already approved? It's been almost two years since we filed the I-130, it was approved end of April, and we've been married for 2½ years.

 

Under I-485, it asks for immigration documents, we provided all of those with our application, so I assume there is nothing to add here? The other thing it asks for is police records and that doesn't apply either.

[Dashinka 26,473]

If you have additional evidence as described by the example, it doesn't hurt to include it, or bring it with you to the interview.

 

Good Luck!

[Fr8dog 571]

If you're planning on bringing it with you to the interview, you might as well upload it now. Added benefit being they will make the prints for you.

 

You should always bring everything with you to any and all visits to the field office. Just in case they have overlooked something, forgot to print something or decided to turn your file upside-down on the floor and loose all your previously submitted evidence during a time there was no online filing or document uploading (ask me how I know that one).

[MollyBob 2]

Thank you both for your replies. I combed through everything we have and much of it was as originally submitted, I updated things like joint bills and memberships to the reflect the most recent documents to show they remain ongoing.

 

I couldn't actually upload anything anyway for I-130, because they're approved, they're effectively closed on the the petitioner account and nothing can be added there, only to our personal accounts for the I-485.

 

As per your advice, I sorted every document into a multi section folder for each of us and took that to the interview, including copies of every submitted form. Thankfully we needed nothing from that folder (it was bulging and hard to zip-up, there may have been a paper explosion in the office on opening it 😂). 

 

Interview went smoothly, we did run into a rather big issue of our medical forms having expired, frustratingly for us we got them done a few weeks before they became non-expiring. We were told we'd be sent an RFE and to get them redone. We'd already had an RFE for our most recent tax return, so I was surprised they didn't tell us earlier, we could have taken them to interview with us. No matter, new forms arrived at the FO today, now waiting for them to be processed and hopefully a decision made. 🤞