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Hey guys, 
thank you for all the responses. I actually completely forgot to update my story, so I'll do it now and hopefully it will help others who are in the same situation.
Like I said earlier, my stokes interview happened a year and a half after my initial interview and two weeks after the stokes I got my green card in the mail. 
For the stokes interview we had the following with us: 
our lease, car insurance, photo album, bills under our name, tax returns.
we didn't have bank statements because we didn't have a joint bank account at the time. 
The interview first started with both of us, the officer asked few basic questions, looked at our photos, asked about our travels and kept couple of pictures for his file. Then he separated us and conducted separate interviews, which lasted maybe 10-15 mins each. After that he went over few questions that we answered differently from each other, so he wanted to clarify them. And that was it. Overall I had a very positive experience with stokes interview, much better from the original one and the officer was very pleasant, we even had few laughs when answering certain questions. 
A week after the interview my case status online was updated and I received my green card shortly after. I got a permanent GC right away, due to the fact that by the time we had a stokes interview we were already married for over 3 years. 

Hey guys, 
thank you for all the responses. I actually completely forgot to update my story, so I'll do it now and hopefully it will help others who are in the same situation.
Like I said earlier, my stokes interview happened a year and a half after my initial interview and two weeks after the stokes I got my green card in the mail. 
For the stokes interview we had the following with us: 
our lease, car insurance, photo album, bills under our name, tax returns.
we didn't have bank statements because we didn't have a joint bank account at the time. 
The interview first started with both of us, the officer asked few basic questions, looked at our photos, asked about our travels and kept couple of pictures for his file. Then he separated us and conducted separate interviews, which lasted maybe 10-15 mins each. After that he went over few questions that we answered differently from each other, so he wanted to clarify them. And that was it. Overall I had a very positive experience with stokes interview, much better from the original one and the officer was very pleasant, we even had few laughs when answering certain questions. 
A week after the interview my case status online was updated and I received my green card shortly after. I got a permanent GC right away, due to the fact that by the time we had a stokes interview we were already married for over 3 years. 

I'm a little bit shocked by this, but I need some support/help. So we had our initial interview back in October, 2015. The IO was to be quite honest, not nice at all, which I understand, because they are doing their job, so I didn't take anything personal. We were sure that we would be approved, so I think this is where our mistake was in being too confident. While we brought our photos together, including pics from vacations, and joint tax files, we couldn't bring our lease simply because we moved two weeks prior to the interview to a brand new building and the didn't get the copy of our lease from the rental company yet. (ironically, we got it two days after the interview). On the lease prior to that I was the sole renter. But we didn't even think of bringing affidavits from our previous landlord or roommate, or friends that could state that we have been living together since 2011. Moreover we've been married for over a year before we even applied for a green card. I was so sure that it was obvious that we were married, that I guess I overlooked the fact that maybe it's not so obvious for USCIS.
So anyway, our interview lasted for about 20 mins, then we were told to wait for the decision in the mail. FOUR months passed and nothing. I finally sent out the case inquiry and one month after the case inquiry (so five months of waiting all together) they sent me a reply, that they couldn't reach a decision and will schedule a second interview shortly.
My understanding this is going to be a Stokes interview, which is upsetting as I feel like it's not fair. Our case is taking awfully long. So how long now should I wait for them to decide to schedule the second interview. It feels like if I didn't send the case inquire they wouldn't even remember about our case. Should I do the info pass or just stay patient and keep waiting?
Mind you the case status online has not been updated since September 2015.