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Average Rating: 4.5
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| Portland OR |  Review #33793 on September 30, 2025: |
Churros
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
Adjusting from K1. My wife and I contacted an interpreter a month before our interview (Spanish) through Language Connection PDX, would definitely recommend their rates are the best we found. The interpreter was kind on time and helpful. Our interview slot was 930, however we ended up interviewing closer to 10:15.
We were all called in together. We took the oath and sat down. The officer requested identity documents which we provided both our state ID the beneficiary's passport. First questions were demographic in nature asking my wife her address full name phone number. My wife did not recall our zip code or her phone number and the officer seemed OK with this.
The next questions were directed at my wife the inadmissibility questions from the I485 this was a slog.
Finally we moved on to questions about our relationship the officer asked me my wife's parents name I could not recall her father's name and the officer seemed OK with this She asked about our timeline and indicated that either of us could answer these questions so I took the lead and spoke about a relationship and some of the trips we've taken the time we've spent together and how I proposed. The officer asked about our future plans and we explained that we were eager to get back to Peru to visit my wife's family but we also plan to take other trips.
The officer smiled thanked us and said that she would be approving our application.
The officer asked if we had any additional documents for her to upload and consider. I told the officer that I had uploaded documents to the portal prior to our interview and she was elated. She told me she wished that more people would do this.
A few days later we received our approval. I was very nervous going into it and I felt much more at ease after some casual conversation with the officer.
| | | Portland OR | Review #33097 on April 9, 2024: |
Lois K
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Reporting on Biometrics in March 2024, then interview and oath in April 2024
-Easy to find. Paid parking lot a half block away.
-Friendly staff, TSA (airport)-style security check to enter the building.
-Biometrics to the left. Interviews up the stairs on the right, check in upstairs before you sit down.
-Oath is downstairs on the left but first wait in the same room as where you waited for the interview.
-Biometrics lasted under 5 minutes
-Interview lasted 11 minutes (I timed it from the waiting room)
-Oath was 30 minutes of prepping the oath-takers then they bring in the guests and the ceremony itself is another 30 minutes
-After the ceremony there was time to take pictures and there were people there helping all the new citizens sign up to vote (not a function of the USCIS office, they were staff and volunteers who were given a small space to do the registrations)
-The surprise was how techie it was - writing the sentence in English on a tablet, signing the tablet, retaking biometrics at the interview to electronically compare them to the data on file already.
| | | Portland OR | Review #33024 on March 7, 2024: |
Sona16
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| | | Portland OR | Review #30985 on April 19, 2022: |
XenophiliusPDX
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Click here if you found this review helpful | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
Had our Adjustment of Status Interview today and it was largely a very good experience. When you walk in, you're greeted by security. You have to show that you have your interview notice, and then they put you through the airport-like security screening. You have to take off your shoes and belt, so had we thought about it, we may have chosen different shoes, but nothing too bad.
The only negative experience was that the COVID parameters closed the information desk, so you go straight to the waiting room without checking in. This caused us some confusion because we didn't know if our IO was going to know that we were there, but in the end at our scheduled time, the officer called us by name and there were no problems getting seen. At this time, masks were not required to be worn in the interview.
Our immigration officer was really warm, walked us through what kind of questions were going to be asked. He asked the general inadmissability questions that are on the I-485, then moved to the I-130. That's where he wanted to know our story of how we met, our courting situation and that was pretty much it. Didn't dive too deep into questioning the nature of our relationship. We were prepared with all of the prep questions - like, names of family members, what did we have for breakfast, what kind of work do we do, our work schedules, etc... but none of that was asked. I guess we were pretty apparent in our general bona fide relationship.
He then asked for additional documents and I handed him the stack of evidence. He thumbed quickly through them and pulled out stuff like pictures and beneficiary statements, affidavits, and utility bills. All of that took approximately 30 seconds. Then he said he needed to finish up some stuff and he will try to get it approved later in the day. We left and about 15 minutes later, our case was updated to "Card is being produced."
Couldn't ask for a better interview! I'm knocking down the rating one notch only because it is quite confusing for such an anxiety-provoking moment to not have any instruction on where to go or to be prepared for them to call you at your time. It's not good to worry that maybe you're in the wrong place or that they won't know that you're there. But all in all, it was an easy process and I hope everyone gets the same great interview experience we had.
| | | Portland OR | Review #30935 on April 7, 2022: |
green_rabbit
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My husband had his AOS interview today (adjusting from a K1) at Portland. After going through security, interviews are on the second floor. We waited a while to be called, but not too long. (15 minutes?) We were called back together in the officer's office. We had arranged to have an interpreter for French available from upwork.com, but the officer wanted to use the USCIS phone interpretation service. The interpreter turned out to be from my husband's country (Senegal). The officer went through the entire AOS application with my husband, asking about all of the eligibility questions (have you ever committed a crime, etc). We also updated our address, since apparently it hadn't updated in the system when we changed it, despite getting a confirmation email. Then the officer opened it up to both of us to ask about our relationship. He wanted to know a lot of details about when we met and decided to marry, and what the ceremony was like. My husband still hasn't met my family, but it wasn't an issue, fortunately. He then went over the documents we had provided and said to keep collecting things like this for the ROC process, and explained a bit about how that would go. He told us we would be approved by the end of the day, but he had to go through our paperwork and update a few things. The entire interview took longer than I expected. Maybe half an hour or a bit more?
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