Adjustment Interview scheduled, your experience ..

[Don J]

Surprised to find AOS interview notice in todays mail, it's only been about 14 months since my wife has arrived and I guess I anticipated the interview to take 2 years.

I think it should be a snap because our marriage is very strong and real, however I would surely appreciate the experience of those who have gone through this process.

I will surely share how things go on 3/26 so those of you waiting for your AOS interview will have something to work with.

Any insight will be appreciated!

Regards,
Don J

[Cort]

... in response to Adjustment Interview scheduled, your exp..., posted by Don J on Mar 14, 2001

Don,
Went through it a week ago.  It was a snap.  Questions asked her were already in the file (family data, how did we meet).  Asked for joint income tax return copy, evidence of joint checking account, and checkbook with both our names on it (that one I left in the car).  These items were not requested on the notice.  The interviewer clearly wanted to one see that everything necessessary was in the case record and two we were living together (married, of course) and enjoying each other. It was upbeat and short.
    Hope you get one as helpful as ours was.

Cort

[Jim H]

... in response to Adjustment Interview scheduled, your exp..., posted by Don J on Mar 14, 2001

Don,

The worst part was having to sit in the waiting room with life-sized pictures of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno smiling down at me!  I remember thinking "After all I've endured in this long K-1 process, the worst should have been behind me, but now I get this cruel and inhumane punishment..."

You won't have that problem )  But seriously:

In March 2000 Sally and I arrived at the Boston District Office at 8:30.  We checked in at the desk and then sat in the waiting room with a few other couples.  Soon a women entered the room and announced that all AOS interviews for the month of March had been cancelled in February - hadn't we received notification in the mail?  None of us had.  She left the room, came back ten minutes later and said they would try and find some people to do the interviews, but it would take a while.

Forty minutes later they called us in.  We were seated in a room with two people - a woman at a desk and a man seated off to the side, observing and taking notes.  The woman gave the interview but she seemed like she was new and in training.  Most of the questions were directed at Sally and seemed benign.  She asked for some original documents that we didn't have because, we explained, they had been taken from us eight months previously when we applied for AOS.  So she made a few phone calls and left for awhile, trying to locate our file, but it was never found.

For this reason, we were told that we could not get Sally's passport stamped that day, but otherwise we were approved.  This was confusing to me, for without a 'conditional' green card or a stamped passport how were we supposed to prove that her status was adjusted?  The woman said we would get an approval letter in the mail, and then we could come in again and get the passport stamped.  How long would it take?  She wouldn't say, but admitted it could be months.

We headed out through the waiting room, with me in a pretty black mood.  I paused to look back and level an icy glare at Clinton and Reno.

Thirty days later we got the approval letter, which stated that the green card would arrive in 2-6 months.  Two weeks later the green card arrived.

Jim

[DavidT]

... in response to Adjustment Interview scheduled, your exp..., posted by Don J on Mar 14, 2001

Don,
Relax! The interview for AOS was pretty simple, just make sure that you have the requested documentation,have it in order,also make copies of everything,including drivers license,they ask for proof of your marriage, so copies of marriage license,joint bank account statements,any bills in both of your names. I learned that if you appear organized and give them more than they require it helps! One other thing I learned was to let your wife answer the questions directed to her, DON'T answer for her! Actually most of the questions were directed to my wife,not to ME. We arrived for our appointment early, we were scheduled for 9:15 am arrived at 7:45 called at 8:15 and out the door at 8:40 not bad for Chicago!.

Hope this helped! Feel free to contact me if you have any more in depth questions.But really it was pretty easy,somewhat anti-climatic if you want my opinion.

Good Luck & God Bless

Dave & Nenita

[Don J]

... in response to Re: Adjustment Interview scheduled, your..., posted by DavidT on Mar 14, 2001

...convince my wife to relax I think we can get through this. She of course is reading the AOS letter "requested information" and INS webpage required documentation and assuming that we have to follow verbatim. She is concerned because her name is not on my mortgage and or that the monthly bills do not have both of our names on them, I have tried to explain that it makes no sense for me to attach her name to monthly bills just to try demonstrate that we live in the same house. We have a joint checking account and have 2 marriage certificates (one US and one Philippines), we have 2 sets of wedding pictures again US and Philippine. Anyone who sees us together pretty much knows ours is not a "marriage of convenience".

I just hope the stress of the interview calms her for the really big test 3 days after the interview "DMV", it will be her third attempt at passing her driving test ). Perhaps she will be more confident on that knowing she has passed the greencard interview ).

Cort, good to hear from you! I often wonder how you are doing, it appears you have relocated? We thought of you guys when we were back in Cebu this last December and January.

Thanks again Guys, hopefully my wife will relax now.

Regards and God Bless!

Don J