San Diego CA USCIS Office Reviews
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| San Diego CA |  Review #26416 on June 12, 2019: |
Ash&Jaye
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Our appointment was scheduled for ​​​​​​​9 am but we arrived about 30 minutes before. It took us about 10 min to get through security because it's basically airport style and we had to take off our shoes. We went upstairs to the waiting area where there was about 20 other people waiting and we waited about 20 minutes to be called. At this point, I was pretty nervous because some of the officers we saw looked pretty stern and we saw a few people come out of rooms crying (not happy crying).
We got called in exactly at 9 am on the dot by a young officer who was dressed exactly like my husband! We went into the room and he had us stand to say the oath. Once we sat down, he was super chilled out and asked us for passports, my husbands UK birth certificate and our marriage certificate. He also asked us how we met! And that is literally all he asked for during the entire interview! The whole interview was much more of a conversation than anything! I came extremely over prepared with 3 folders full of evidence and copies and everything we have ever mailed to USCIS. But we didn't show him any of it. I'm assuming they feel they had enough info on us already 🤷â€â™€ï¸Â I asked him if he wanted to see and keep a few of our wedding photos, which he did. He went through the i-485 questions but only a few and that was pretty much it! He said, "I'm going to approve you for the green card. Congratulations!" He walked us out and we were done! 10 minutes total! By dinner time, we got a notification that the card is being produced.Â
I know we had an extremely easy interview compared to some people and I'm honestly shocked by that. I walked in excited but pretty nervous! Husband was cool as a cucumber! 😂
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| San Diego CA | Review #26317 on May 30, 2019: |
tombs07
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It was a very pleasant interview. Not intimidating at all.
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| San Diego CA | Review #26091 on May 2, 2019: |
Minsk_2_San_Diego
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We arrived at the USCIS office in downtown San Diego about 20 minutes before our scheduled interview time. The waiting room was already packed with about 50 people and it seems that we were all scheduled for the same morning session. Since we arrived later than the others, we were called in for our interview nearly last, when the room was almost empty. The point here is, "If you want to be interviewed first, arrive earliest".
I'm not sure if it was by luck or by design, but our interviewer spoke Russian as well as English - My wife's English is good, but it put her very much at ease when the interviewer offered to speak with her in Russian. Very cool. Our interview lasted about 50 minutes total and felt very friendly and almost informal.
We were asked basic questions about how we met and about our current living situation - but those questions were intermixed with the process of verifying our documents (marriage, divorce, birth certificates, passports and visas). It really didn't feel like an inquisition - much more like a friendly conversation - but each time we gave answers, our interviewer wrote many notes in our files.
We came VERY prepared and VERY organized. We had separate folders for all our original documents so we could show them and then get them back... and a separate folder for photocopies that we intended to give to the interviewer. We had heavily notated all of our documents and evidence with little post-it flags to describe each thing. My wife had painstakingly gone through each supporting evidence photo and written on the back the date and time and names (and relationships) of each person in the photos.
All of the "additional supporting documents" like joint lease agreement, joint bank account, letters from family, photos, etc were all handed over in one big stack at the very end of the interview.
Our interviewer was careful not to promise that we were approved... but she said that everything looked good in our file and that we'd provided "more than enough" supporting documents to prove the validity of our marriage. She said that they'd need to go through the application completely and look over all our supporting stuff one last time - and if there was no RFE, we could expect to receive her green card within 14 days.
It was a little disheartening not to get a definitive approval there on the spot - but I don't think it was because we lacked a strong case. It seemed more procedural than anything about our specific case. At any rate, it was a very easy and positive experience and our interviewer wished us happiness in our marriage as we were leaving.
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| San Diego CA | Review #25499 on February 1, 2019: |
Alicat
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Green card interview went great--used someone else's recommendation and parked at Jimbo's at Horton Plaza for 2 hour validated parking. We ended up getting there at 10:00 for our 10:15 appointment. We got through security and the check in process relatively quickly. They called our name by 10:30 and we were out by 10:55. The officer was nice and seemed genuinely interested in our story and making sure we submitted all the proper paperwork so everything could be approved. She took some of our wedding photos that we had printed out and other photos that I had printed out of our holidays with family and added them to our paperwork being submitted. All in all good. She said she would probably approve by next week and we should expect the green card in the mail within 6 weeks (but some people get it as soon as 2 weeks!) Here's hoping and waiting!
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| San Diego CA | Review #24825 on October 12, 2018: |
K1 2017
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Pretty fast and smooth. AoS interview was pretty straightforward and we were approved pending medical exam results arriving from Ciudad Juarez, but that only took 3days.
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