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Interview experience - My wife and I went for the 2pm appointment for AOS interview on Sep 18th at Long Island City, NY USCIS office. Surprisingly the waiting room was sparsely populated however we had to wait for an hour before we were called in for the interview. Officer Bodi, a young lady, was our ISO. She was very amiable and friendly. We took the oath before sitting and she asked us to provide all the documentary evidence we have to justify our marriage. I had tonnes of documents, more than needed to prove the requirement however I was still unsure about the I-693. Surprsingly, neither I-693 or I-864 was asked for, at all! She asked to provide the latest tax returns, joint asset statements(bank a/c, investment a/c, phone bills, medical insurance cards, life insurance stmt), marriage certificate, birth certificates, my naturalization certificate, passports and ID's. Questions asked were:
- Where did we first meet?
- Who proposed?
- Where did we get married?
- How big was the wedding and number of people who attended?
- What was our family's reaction when we asked their permission?(We had an Indian wedding, so its more or less necessary to have families involved to arrange the wedding)
- What if your families were not ready for this marriage, what would you have done? (We said that our families are pretty open minded and were always in agreement of life choices we both will make, so it was fairly easy to talk to them)
Then she asked for look at the photographs and kept 2 for records. She had some nice things to say about how colorful Indian weddings are, and boy are they!!
The interview lasted for less than 15 mins and she asked us to keep all the spread out paper work back and very unassumingly she said - "So you will receive your green card in mail in the next 30 days". What a sigh of relief!
There was a lot of small talk which happened disussing wedding traditions in India and my wife also commented on how beautiful her dress was. Couldn't have asked for a better ISO and a better day.
Today the online status shows that the card is in production.
Thankyou for your suggestions and messages. Takeway from the whole process - Be patient and it nevers hurts to over prepare in terms of documents. You just dont want to be missing that one document which is needed.

Interview experience - My wife and I went for the 2pm appointment for AOS interview on Sep 18th at Long Island City, NY USCIS office. Surprisingly the waiting room was sparsely populated however we had to wait for an hour before we were called in for the interview. Officer Bodi, a young lady, was our ISO. She was very amiable and friendly. We took the oath before sitting and she asked us to provide all the documentary evidence we have to justify our marriage. I had tonnes of documents, more than needed to prove the requirement however I was still unsure about the I-693. Surprsingly, neither I-693 or I-864 was asked for, at all! She asked to provide the latest tax returns, joint asset statements(bank a/c, investment a/c, phone bills, medical insurance cards, life insurance stmt), marriage certificate, birth certificates, my naturalization certificate, passports and ID's. Questions asked were:
- Where did we first meet?
- Who proposed?
- Where did we get married?
- How big was the wedding and number of people who attended?
- What was our family's reaction when we asked their permission?(We had an Indian wedding, so its more or less necessary to have families involved to arrange the wedding)
- What if your families were not ready for this marriage, what would you have done? (We said that our families are pretty open minded and were always in agreement of life choices we both will make, so it was fairly easy to talk to them)
Then she asked for look at the photographs and kept 2 for records. She had some nice things to say about how colorful Indian weddings are, and boy are they!!
The interview lasted for less than 15 mins and she asked us to keep all the spread out paper work back and very unassumingly she said - "So you will receive your green card in mail in the next 30 days". What a sigh of relief!
There was a lot of small talk which happened disussing wedding traditions in India and my wife also commented on how beautiful her dress was. Couldn't have asked for a better ISO and a better day.
Today the online status shows that the card is in production.
Thankyou for your suggestions and messages. Takeway from the whole process - Be patient and it nevers hurts to over prepare in terms of documents. You just dont want to be missing that one document which is needed.