Jancy
07-02-2008, 11:04 PM
Well we have completed the interview. We do not know the results yet, the IO told us we would get a letter in the mail in about a week to 2 weeks with the decision.
Out appt. was at 10:30 am, we brought a translator with us ($20/hr ave. rate) since my husband speaks Enlgish pretty well but is not fluent. We wanted to make sure everything was clear for him and I was not supposed to translate for him during the interview. We went through security which was very simple, one of the security officers was chatting on a cell phone. The security was much less complicated the CDJ where you can't even wear a belt buckel. On the AOS appt. letter we were told which room to go to which was very basic waiting room kinda like the DMV. There was a letter hold box outside the door where we had to place our appointment letter. I think we were in the waiting room around 10:15 (there was no TV on, just chairs and other people waiting for their appointments). The IO came to the room with our letter and call my husbands first name. We gathered out things and followed him to his office (a separation cubical type wall separated his desk from another where it appeared an interview was taking place). He did not cloase the door and there was a window in his office so I felt pretty confortable. The IO sat at the desk to ask questions and fill out paperwork while there was another (IO?) sitting to the back left of the desk just observing. The had us take an oath of truth and then we were seated. Our translator had to sign a paper and put down general personal information. We were asked for our passports, ss cards and ID's. My husband also had to give his EAD and the IO removed the I-94 from his passport. The interview was not difficult even though we had prepared for one. The IO had a folder with my husbands A# on it and had looked through our case prior to the interview. The questions asked to my husband were (I think I rember them all):
1.What is your full name? 2.What is your DOB?
3.What are your parents names? 4.What town were you born in?
5.What is your address? 6.Most of the I-485 yes/no questions
http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485.pdf
7.Have you ever used false document to work? Where are those documents now? (EX: false ss card #)
8. Is this your first marriage? 9.Do you have any children?
Then asked to both of us, which ever one of us wanted to answer could:
1.When/where did you meet for the 1st time?
2.When did you start dating?
3.How many times did you see each other before leaving the country, and during my husbands stay in Mexico?
4.Did my parents go to Mexico? Do they know my husband?
5.Do I know my husbands parents?
6.When did we get married? Do we have pictures? (The IO sitting in the back asked questions to my husband about the photos, where did we get married, who was there, etc.)
7.Do we have evidence of our relationship? The IO specifically asked for our rental agreement and joint bank account information.
8.What are our plans for the future? 9.Why did we not have wedding rings?/Why was I not wearing my engagement ring (I had stated that the ring "fit perfectly" in the I-129F application)?
I think that was about it. The IO then told us how/when we should receive a reply, thanked us and sent us on our way. I think the whole interview was around 15 – 30 minutes. I believe we were called into the office really close to our appt. time. It took a few minutes to get situated in the office and that was it. We were out of the office, chatted with the translator and were back in the car by 11:07. I’m not sure what to think, I feel we did well but there really wasn’t much to the interview. I guess we’ll know when the letter arrives.
Out appt. was at 10:30 am, we brought a translator with us ($20/hr ave. rate) since my husband speaks Enlgish pretty well but is not fluent. We wanted to make sure everything was clear for him and I was not supposed to translate for him during the interview. We went through security which was very simple, one of the security officers was chatting on a cell phone. The security was much less complicated the CDJ where you can't even wear a belt buckel. On the AOS appt. letter we were told which room to go to which was very basic waiting room kinda like the DMV. There was a letter hold box outside the door where we had to place our appointment letter. I think we were in the waiting room around 10:15 (there was no TV on, just chairs and other people waiting for their appointments). The IO came to the room with our letter and call my husbands first name. We gathered out things and followed him to his office (a separation cubical type wall separated his desk from another where it appeared an interview was taking place). He did not cloase the door and there was a window in his office so I felt pretty confortable. The IO sat at the desk to ask questions and fill out paperwork while there was another (IO?) sitting to the back left of the desk just observing. The had us take an oath of truth and then we were seated. Our translator had to sign a paper and put down general personal information. We were asked for our passports, ss cards and ID's. My husband also had to give his EAD and the IO removed the I-94 from his passport. The interview was not difficult even though we had prepared for one. The IO had a folder with my husbands A# on it and had looked through our case prior to the interview. The questions asked to my husband were (I think I rember them all):
1.What is your full name? 2.What is your DOB?
3.What are your parents names? 4.What town were you born in?
5.What is your address? 6.Most of the I-485 yes/no questions
http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485.pdf
7.Have you ever used false document to work? Where are those documents now? (EX: false ss card #)
8. Is this your first marriage? 9.Do you have any children?
Then asked to both of us, which ever one of us wanted to answer could:
1.When/where did you meet for the 1st time?
2.When did you start dating?
3.How many times did you see each other before leaving the country, and during my husbands stay in Mexico?
4.Did my parents go to Mexico? Do they know my husband?
5.Do I know my husbands parents?
6.When did we get married? Do we have pictures? (The IO sitting in the back asked questions to my husband about the photos, where did we get married, who was there, etc.)
7.Do we have evidence of our relationship? The IO specifically asked for our rental agreement and joint bank account information.
8.What are our plans for the future? 9.Why did we not have wedding rings?/Why was I not wearing my engagement ring (I had stated that the ring "fit perfectly" in the I-129F application)?
I think that was about it. The IO then told us how/when we should receive a reply, thanked us and sent us on our way. I think the whole interview was around 15 – 30 minutes. I believe we were called into the office really close to our appt. time. It took a few minutes to get situated in the office and that was it. We were out of the office, chatted with the translator and were back in the car by 11:07. I’m not sure what to think, I feel we did well but there really wasn’t much to the interview. I guess we’ll know when the letter arrives.