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| Washington DC |  Review on September 23, 2019: |
craigybear
Rating:  | Review Topic: Adjustment of Status
We arrived approx 20 minutes before the scheduled time.
You enter at street level and pass through airport style security, including removal of shoes and belt.
You check in with the desk following security, provide your interview letter and then walk around the corner to the elevator. Up to level 2.
On level 2 you enter a large waiting room and check in again with the reception desk, providing your interview letter.
There are restrooms at the back and the space is generally pleasant with TVs on mute.
Immigration officers will regularly appear from behind a door, rummage through the stack of interview notice letters and call out the name of each individual. We were the only couple in the room; most other people were by themselves and so I presume this office deals with many more cases than just AOS interviews.
Once we were called, about 20 minutes past our interview time, we followed the immigration officer to her private office.
Our officer was stern but friendly. At the beginning we were asked for ID, birth certs and marriage cert.
We then spent a lot of time going through the respective I-130 and I-485 forms my wife and I - section by section. She was effectively asking us the question again and checking off our responses vs the form content. Be sure to know your I485 and I30 contents very well. These questions prompted numerous follow on questions and clarifications.
We were asked if we wished to provide any additional information relative to the I-130 and I-145 applications and we provided the officer with a printed contents list which we ran through and she requested pretty much all of it;
Joint 2018 Tax Return
Join Mortgage Deed
Joint Bank Statements
Joint Health Insurance
Joint Vehicle Lease
Joint Vehicle Insurance
Joint Home Insurance
Joint Rental Agreement
401k Beneficiary statements
Paychecks
Collection of photographs
We used the photographs to help with her request that we describe our relationship from beginning until now; she would jump in and asked pointed questions (I guess to catch us out) such as how many attended our wedding dinner, the cost of the engagement ring, full name of the person who introduced us, when our parents met for the first time - she seemed to scribble this all down in no particular order.
At the end of the process we got the spiel about the next steps - including that it could take up to 120 days for a response. I got the feeling we weren't going to get on the spot approval so I did ask how she felt about our application. She stated she felt good about but had to do some additional checks. She said we were well prepared and liked our binder of evidence. All in all we were with her for about 40 minutes.
That evening we got an update to the I485 and I130s on the USCIS website stating 'interview was completed and case must be reviewed' which certainly caused us some concern and heartache as we went to bed. Happily by the time we woke up the next morning we had a notification that card was in production!
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #27125