My husband (Philippines) and I (US Citizen) went for the I-485 interview on July 13th. I should have known anything with 13 in the date is bad news. She asked questions that was on the application and how many children we each had and how many marriages. She asked for my passport which I did not bring since I did not think I needed mine since I am US citizen, but she wanted to see the stamps where I was in the Philippines, and an update on the sponsor, and my husband's son's rejected I-130 for lack of evidence plus 2005 income tax papers which seemed to disapear from my folder (I found it on my desk later).
She made us feel like we should have never married -- she was cold toward us (Orlando office) asking why I went overseas to marry a man I met on the internet and thought that was just awful of me doing and asking my husband why he married me.
My husband was never married before but on his son's birth certificate it has a marriage date due to the Catholic religion there being strict and child was born out of wedlock, but the ex got an annulment there in June 2000, before I knew him and we were married, and on it she claimed he ran away with another woman and had a child with her. This was placed there in order to get the annullment. Well, he only has one son and that was with the ex, but the immigration officer kept looking at my husband and saying - are you sure you have no more children? She made him feel like a criminal and would say things like - I want to beleive you but I have to do some research on this annulment....are you sure you have no more children? She took his I-94 and told us we needed to get the papers she requested.
She asked my husband when his EAD ran out and it is in March 2007, so she told him to go ahead and renew it if we did not hear anything by that time and to spend out the money to make sure it was renewed. She said if the AOS was denied, we could appeal to the Administratice courts since it would be an issue with the annulment paper. So, should we be concerned about this? Should my husband get some affidavits from the Philippines stating he has only one child and no other? Lawyer time? Any help appreciated. We have done everything legally and to get to this point and have it shot down by some crazed immigration person who was in my eyes, looking for anyway to deny any applications that came through her desk.
Tired of immigration bull.
Ambria
She made us feel like we should have never married -- she was cold toward us (Orlando office) asking why I went overseas to marry a man I met on the internet and thought that was just awful of me doing and asking my husband why he married me.
My husband was never married before but on his son's birth certificate it has a marriage date due to the Catholic religion there being strict and child was born out of wedlock, but the ex got an annulment there in June 2000, before I knew him and we were married, and on it she claimed he ran away with another woman and had a child with her. This was placed there in order to get the annullment. Well, he only has one son and that was with the ex, but the immigration officer kept looking at my husband and saying - are you sure you have no more children? She made him feel like a criminal and would say things like - I want to beleive you but I have to do some research on this annulment....are you sure you have no more children? She took his I-94 and told us we needed to get the papers she requested.
She asked my husband when his EAD ran out and it is in March 2007, so she told him to go ahead and renew it if we did not hear anything by that time and to spend out the money to make sure it was renewed. She said if the AOS was denied, we could appeal to the Administratice courts since it would be an issue with the annulment paper. So, should we be concerned about this? Should my husband get some affidavits from the Philippines stating he has only one child and no other? Lawyer time? Any help appreciated. We have done everything legally and to get to this point and have it shot down by some crazed immigration person who was in my eyes, looking for anyway to deny any applications that came through her desk.
Tired of immigration bull.
Ambria
and face it we all know that most Govt. employees have a reputation of not being the best at dealing with people 
( DMV, USPS, USCIS ) . Be more than prepared BE OVER PREPARED, double check everything. Copy everything, cross t's dot I's Don't give them any reason to doubt you and they won't . Their Job is to scrutinize and it is in the best interest of the Security & Integrity of USA and the benefit of those who go through the AOS process the correct way.