Our interview experience:
We had our interview on 13th May 10:25 AM at San Francisco AOS. We arrived at 10:15 and was called in around 11 AM. We are interviewed by a nice woman. She asked for our IDs and passports. She went over I-485 questions and kept taking notes while we were answering the questions. At the end of it, she asked to sign the stamp on I-485 to confirm the number of notes she has taken on it.
Then she asked us to provide any supporting documents that we have to support our marriage. We gave her our lease docs, bank statements, both of our 401K beneficiary letters, Medical and Dental cards, 2009 tax docs, credit cards and a small album we made for the interview containing photos from various occasions over last 3 years. We carried marriage photo album too which she went over. She made copies of all the cards and returned us the originals.
She didn't bother to ask for our birth certificates or marriage certificate or salary slips or tax documents.
Then came the bummer.
She took out a form which said that our case is assigned for further review because of incomplete I-693. Looks like surgeon we went to, missed out couple of drug related questions on page 3. There are questions pertaining to drug with Class A/B conditions. The surgeon marked it as "NA", where as it has to be marked as "No Class A/B condition". She gave us Form-72 - form for any discrepancies for I-693. She highlighted those questions and told us to go back to the surgeon and get the questions answered properly with initials and date next to it. She was nice to suggest that if we can get the form back to her by post in next couple of days, she will hold onto our file and process it as soon as she gets the document. Officially we had 30 days to get it done.
Only silver lining was she kept the EAD and told us that it will take 30 days to get our green card after she gets corrected I-693. She told my husband that it shouldn't be a problem since he has his H1-B active.
We came out and immediately contacted the surgeon who gave us the appointment right away. In next couple of hours we could go to him and get the I-693 corrected and send it back to AOS via fed-ex overnight. I got a fed-ex confirmation that the document reached AOS.
On 17th May morning, i got an email stating that Card production ordered. It was a big relief.
Thanks to all the folks on this forum who helped us do this by all by ourselves without the attorney.
-JS
We had our interview on 13th May 10:25 AM at San Francisco AOS. We arrived at 10:15 and was called in around 11 AM. We are interviewed by a nice woman. She asked for our IDs and passports. She went over I-485 questions and kept taking notes while we were answering the questions. At the end of it, she asked to sign the stamp on I-485 to confirm the number of notes she has taken on it.
Then she asked us to provide any supporting documents that we have to support our marriage. We gave her our lease docs, bank statements, both of our 401K beneficiary letters, Medical and Dental cards, 2009 tax docs, credit cards and a small album we made for the interview containing photos from various occasions over last 3 years. We carried marriage photo album too which she went over. She made copies of all the cards and returned us the originals.
She didn't bother to ask for our birth certificates or marriage certificate or salary slips or tax documents.
Then came the bummer.
She took out a form which said that our case is assigned for further review because of incomplete I-693. Looks like surgeon we went to, missed out couple of drug related questions on page 3. There are questions pertaining to drug with Class A/B conditions. The surgeon marked it as "NA", where as it has to be marked as "No Class A/B condition". She gave us Form-72 - form for any discrepancies for I-693. She highlighted those questions and told us to go back to the surgeon and get the questions answered properly with initials and date next to it. She was nice to suggest that if we can get the form back to her by post in next couple of days, she will hold onto our file and process it as soon as she gets the document. Officially we had 30 days to get it done.
Only silver lining was she kept the EAD and told us that it will take 30 days to get our green card after she gets corrected I-693. She told my husband that it shouldn't be a problem since he has his H1-B active.
We came out and immediately contacted the surgeon who gave us the appointment right away. In next couple of hours we could go to him and get the I-693 corrected and send it back to AOS via fed-ex overnight. I got a fed-ex confirmation that the document reached AOS.
On 17th May morning, i got an email stating that Card production ordered. It was a big relief.
Thanks to all the folks on this forum who helped us do this by all by ourselves without the attorney.
-JS
