Mr&MrsR

Thank you all :dance:

Yes, it was pleasant and a positive experience

We arrived at the Chula Vista office 15 minutes early, carrying 2 fat foto albums, and 2 folders full of papers

After we checked in, we didn't have to wait much, cause at 3:05 (our appt time) a middle-aged mexican gentleman called my name and walked us to his office.

Then we had to take the oath and were told to take a seat.

He let us sign a paper which stated that we wanted to take the interview without the attendance of our attorney and another one which said that we applied for the conditional green card and will have to go through removal procedings..

He started to ask me a lot of questions about the content of our papers like my full name, current address, when I entered the states on vwp, the POE, the I-94 (I told him I didn't get any, cause they only do it electronic now. He then checked my passport for stamps), if we got married, if we have been married for 4 months (I was too confused to calculate, so I said the date we got married ) and which address I resided before I came to the USA.

Then he asked me a bunch of those no-questions from the... I think i-485 or sth..

and it was like "no.... no.... no.... no.... no.... no.... no.... no.... no.... no...." - "are you in a genuine relationship, you entered in good faith?" - "..... (we both:) yes!" - nice try, Mister!

Then he asked if he had a paper about our mortgage or lease. I said "no, cause we live in his mom's house."

Him: "Do you have any documents to proof this?"

I handed him a huge pile of letters of family, friends and others addressed to our both names to our address and he looked at it like o.O "#### I don't wanna look through so much stuff"

But I gave him the rest of the evidence for our shared address, so he was glad he had an excuse and could put the letters and cards to the side

When I gave him an affidavit of my mother-in-law + other family members, he read it all slowly. And we were sitting there for maybe 4,5 minutes...

After he finished, he asked my husband: "So your godfather still lives with his mother?" (which he does again, cause she needs help) and my hubby said "no" and I said "Yes, he does! Uncle ... and Mama ..." to which my husband said "oh yes.... sorry, I got confused. They live together."

IO asked me: "So you are attending the ..... school (what was mentioned in the affidavit)? Why?" I explained it to him. After that he asked if I had school papers and which address they would state - of course ours...

We also showed him the papers about the health insurance + bank account.

He asked us a few questions about our joint stuff...

and then he asked my hubby if he met my family and was kinda acting weird when he said, he hasn't yet and also asked if they even are aware of our wedding - which they are of course... But after we explained why not and that we are gonna go to Germany later - cause obviously we couldn't while the AOS was pending and he couldn't come in Winter, when he wanted to - the IO seamed ok with it. And I told him that my whole family can't really speak English, so they can't skype with my hubby. But that I am sending them pics of us and tell them about things we do, etc. He seamed to be pleased with that.

And I gave him 5 affidavits from 2 German and 3 American friends, which he really liked, cause he seamed to like it better that they are no relatives. And he could see that my friends are aware of our wedding and that they - cause they speak English - stated they had talked to my husband/joined me talking to him several times.

After that he asked for pics. When he saw the 2 huge albums, he made the same face he did when he saw the many letters

He then said he wants to see only pics with us and the family. I started taking examples out of the albums for him to copy. I wasn't half through the pics, when he said "ok ok... that should be enough!!!!!!!!!!!" lmao

And then he looked at one pic of me + hubby with his cousin's baby in my arms, pointed at it and said "what is this!!??" I was like o.O "what...... uhm.... a baby??!!" and he was like "nooooooo" and pointed on my husband. Then we had to laugh, cause on Christmas he had very long hair and now he has it really short. And I told the IO "That's my husband....." - "Really?!?!?! *holding up the pic and comparing it with him* WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!" hahahahahhahaha

Then I told him that his grandma gave my husband 500$ so that he would cut his hair, cause she said he looked like a girl (I think he rather looked like Jack Sparrow ) which made the IO be like "o.O no way!!!! I wish someone would give me 500 for a hair cut!!!"

Then he saw our pic from TJ on those stereotype waggons with the donkeys painted like zebras and sombreros and colorful mexican stuff everywhere... and started to laugh all crazy. He said "of course you had to take a pic on this thing!!!!!! and then we were talking about our day in TJ and I told him how everyone was running to me like "you are so white!!!!!! buy this and buy that!!! and take a pic with our donkey-zebra!!!!! eat in our restaurant........." which made him laugh even more.

And I told him, that my friends all felt pity for the poor painted donkey, when I showed them the pic and that my mom said she wants to take a pic with it, when she will visit us later.a

He took copies of the pics and stayed away kinda long, while we were just talking about what we were gonna do later that day...

When he came back, he handed me the original pics and pointed on one of his copied ones and asked "so who is this other baby??" We got confused, cause on the copy you couldn't really tell which baby was which, cause it was kinda dark.

But we noticed when it was taken and who it was and my husband told him "my cousin's daughter... so is that my nice or what?" IO got confused... he said "Idk... uhm... *thinking for a while* I don't think so. Then he was going through some weird family relations trying to figure out what it is, but didn't know it in the end and started to joke and laughed a lot again.

And then he said out of no where "I recommend your approval blah blah blah 60 days blah blah green card in mail after 15 days blah blah"

And we thanked him and couldn't believe what he just said - but were still confused about if that meant 100% approved - as you know.

Then he walked us outside and it was over yeeeyyyy

:dance: :dance:

.... and the status update says:

On June 1, 2012, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service at ......

I guess we are approved :dance:

I will tell you later about the whole interview...

but in the end our officer said he recommended us for approval and sth about we have to wait up to 60 days for a final decision and will get the green card 15 days after the final decision. so could they still deny us or what does that mean?

Also thank you too guys

We also noticed that many ppl seem to be envious, cause they had longer processes. But they should not be hatin cause other ppl have different lives and possibilities.

3 days left.. we will tell you about our experience.

listen to me, you r in a good shape , so don't get confused with 2 many opinions

Thank you really for your positive words...

We just wish that those pessimistic people would not post things like that if someone only has a few days till the interview cause it just leads to people trippin.

You didn't explain how you changed your mind. The changing flats, university study, new job, insurance, bank accounts, etc. are relevant and would certainly have gotten you in on the VWP before the marriage, but the circumstances are different now since you decided to stay. You will need to explain how that happened and why you were willing to give up all of that in Germany.

I doubt the affidavit will be relevant. Your explanation is the crucial thing here and I wouldn't be surprised if you're asked about it during an interview.

I guess if we are asked for an explanation, it will be enough if we just tell our whole story and how everything happened. We really didn't have any intent. My husband surprised me with his proposal on New Year's Eve and before we didn't even think of marrying. Actually my husband was about to visit me in Germany over the holidays...

Also I got to know my husband's whole family over Christmas and they all welcomed me into the family as his gf. That was also a factor why we were so happy and why our plans changed.

The officer at the interview should understand that.

But it is really confusing that we read so many different opinions on the internet about this intent and vwp topic, although our lawyer seemed not to see any problem. We would never have filed on vwp if he haven't had said that he sees no problem.

+1 to the above.

I think you have actually overdone it a little bit. The movie tickets and ATM receipts and list of movies watched together...that is all vey vague to be considered usable evidence - they aren't going to care about it and probably won't even want to look at it.

My advise is always to keep it simple. Give them what they specificall ask for and maybe a wee bit more - don't overdo it.

Don't stress too much over the process and do not worry about the VWP thing...people rarely even get asked anything about it and if it does get asked it is one or two simple questions and they move on as intent alone cannot be used to deny.

thanks for your reply

That's what we were thinking about, too.

So, when the officer asks for proofs, we planned to give him only the papers about the joint bank account, the shared cell phone plan, the two insurance plans, the affidavits, letters and cards from and to friends and family, and photo albums

and then we would ask if he wants to see the many email, skype log, etc examples, flights tickets and other stuff we have from between 2010 and now.

Cause we were also thinking that if we give him those emails, that he might ask much much more about anything he might be reading.

Would that be good?

you welcome, and it seems you will have a smooth process. just prepare before the interview, and best of luck

thanks again

that's pretty good, you can also make any insurance policies as joint, like auto policy. for example, my wife has one car, and we decided to go to the dmv to make it co-ownership. it's very important for the IO to see trust on the finical accounts, assets or any thing has a real money value, this is a main part of bona fide marriage.

Thanks for your reply.

Right now my husband shares the car insurace with his mother, cause it is cheaper, but it is under her name. We want to share it later under our both names. But we have to wait, as I don't have a CA driver's licence yet.

plus expect to be questioned regarding your VWP. they would suspect that you came her and you have intention to immigrate so be prepared to answer any question regarding that.

We can definitely proof, that there was no intention to immigrate, because I just moved to another flat in Germany, I studied at a university and just broke up my study this March. I actually had planned to end it this summer. I also had a new job next to my study for January, I still have 3 different insurances and 2 bank accounts in Germany and can proof that with recent letters I got to my address in Germany during the last months.

Also one German friend wrote an affidavit stating that my husband actually had planned to visit ME over the holidays.

So the intent question should not be a problem.

Finally I would advice not to mention that you are waiting for the process to complete to do a wedding sometimes this is will rise a red flag. the law says to grant the PRS through marriage there are 2 conditions should apply to the immigrant:

1- the marriage is a bona fide marriage

2- the marriage is not to gain any immigration benefit.

Actually we didn't want a big ceremony, cause we like it rather small. We had the idea to celebrate it with the whole family only later, cause his grandma and everyone would be happy about it. But we don't even know if we will do that.

We just would explain to the officer, that we aren't the type of person who likes big ceremonies, which is true.

also I would recommend you to search through forum, there are a lot of people who posted there interviews experience , so you will have an idea about what you will expect.

Thank you

Hi, we are new in this forum...

We filed for AOS on VWP in February, with the advice and help of our attorney, BEFORE the end of the 90 days.

Our interview will be in a few days and we are getting nervous, cause we don't know what to expect and hope we have all the documents which might be needed.

The interview letter says to bring any supporting evidence of our relationship.

We have:

- our marriage license + certificate -> we only had a small ceremony. Mr.R's mom was the witness and only guest at the wedding. We don't like big ceremonies, but want to celebrate it with the family after the whole process is completed.

- a copy of the application for joining his bank account + the letter with her new debit card on his name + checks with our both names

- bills of our joint cell phone plan - unfortunately only under his name, as he is the account owner + a printout of the profile stating her as the account manager + many other papers stating that the second number is hers

- we could not get a shared health insurance plan, as we live in CA, but we got the same plan for her, both plans state the same address

- affidavit from mother + family, stating that we live in his mom's house and the other bills are on her name + describing the development our relationship, other family members signed that

- affidavits from friends stating that we have a true and loving relationship + how they know about it

- one huge photo album with pics from us + places we visited together last summer + pics from Christmas, Wedding, Easter, etc.

- beginning of a second photo album with recent pics

- stubs card and movie passes, printed list of the movies we watched together

- school papers from an adult school, stating Mrs.R's cell phone number and our address

- flight tickets from both of Mrs.R's visits (+ ticket from planned return to Germany in January)

- his cell phone bill from last year with his calls to Germany

- ATM receipts and bank statements of her German bank account with withdrawals at an ATM close to our house from last summer and recent, before we could share our bank account

- emails, chat log, skype log, fb, text msg examples from 2011 and 2012, with each other and with friends, too

- letters, post cards, and wedding cards from and to family and friends, on our both names to our address

Mrs.R also still has lots of binding ties to Germany.

Sounds like a lot and we hope everything will be fine...

What do you think about it?

Thank you