Good day, I'm from Australia. I can to the US in 2017 to visit my boyfriend. He's is incarecarated and getting out in 6 years we got married and decided to do AOS. Case got denied because my husband could not attend the interview even though we have requested a waiver of his presence. I attended the interview, the officer didn't bother looking at any documentation and had clearly not even look at our file . We submitted 6 years of evidence to show a relationship. They denied the case saying it was abandoned because incarcerated "does not excuse the petitioner from attending the interview". We hired an attorney and filed a motion to reopen and reconsider. that motion remains pending and has been pending for over a year. because of the current Trump administration and it's crack down on immigration and after speaking with our attorney we figured filing a new application would be the best route to go. so we filed new application in October, received an interview notice in December. I attended the interview yesterday, once again the officer had no clue on our file clearly had not even looked at it and when I mentioned that my husband was incarcerated he gave me the deer in headlights look. He told both my attorney and myself that he would need to speak to his supervisor after keeping us waiting for 45 minutes He returned to us to tell us the interview would need to be rescheduled because they need to "review documents" which left both myself and my attorney confused so my question for those of you who have experience in dealing with this kind of thing. does the motion to reopen and reconsider need to be adjudicated before they deal with the new application? We explained this to the officer who was more concerned about speaking to his supervisor than listening to us. has anyone else filed a motion to reopen and reconsider that remains pending and then filed a new application. I had spoken to a number of attorneys before hiring our current attorney and all of them said the denial was incorrect in the first place. Does anyone have any advice they could give us Thanks