Couple of surprise ? questions that IO asked during interview

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Are your parents US citizens? - THIS IS CLEARLY in the N-400, so no surprise that IO asked this. My answer was No, they are not. (same answer as written in N-400)


Surprise questions (atleast I felt it was a surprise, given I havent read such qns in this forum):

1. Do you own property in your home country India?
(why does the IO ask this? Any connection to the Citizenship?)

2. Do you (financially) support your parents back in India?


What relevance and why would the IO ask this?
 
Yes this is surprising.

Corsshairs, did you get your citizenship? What did you answer?
 
Are your parents US citizens? - THIS IS CLEARLY in the N-400, so no surprise that IO asked this. My answer was No, they are not. (same answer as written in N-400)


Surprise questions (atleast I felt it was a surprise, given I havent read such qns in this forum):

1. Do you own property in your home country India?
(why does the IO ask this? Any connection to the Citizenship?)

2. Do you (financially) support your parents back in India?


What relevance and why would the IO ask this?

Sounds like IO was fishing for intent.
 
And what a stupid line of questioning that is for intent purposes.

I could own property back home and not want to dispose of it until I naturalize as there is no guarantee citizenship will be bestowed on me. Also, I could (and should if there is a need) support my parents back home and still reside permanently in America. Plus, I could be supporting them for the short term with the purpose of sponsoring them to immigrate to the USA upon my successful naturalization.

What a bunch of stupid questions asked by a stupid person who has no concept of family responsibilities and future planning.

Oh I wish my IO had asked me questions like that...
 
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Just out of curiosity IO must have asked those questions. They no way related to Citizenship interview approval/denial.

Hence dont think too much about this. Take it easy and relax
 
Am I the only one seeing validity to this question under certain conditions?

What if the applicant's 1040 copies were there and the officer saw the applicant claiming his/her parents as dependents on those returns. Now if the applicant answered no to the question, that means the applicant is lying on his tax forms and thus a possibility of denial under lacking good moral character.

Just a thought!!!

2. Do you (financially) support your parents back in India?
 
they ask questions that have nothing to do with ur n-400 they r nosy and need to spot an error so they can have a reason to deny or get rude.and yes they can deny u just for that reason i've seen it happen.
 
Am I the only one seeing validity to this question under certain conditions?

What if the applicant's 1040 copies were there and the officer saw the applicant claiming his/her parents as dependents on those returns. Now if the applicant answered no to the question, that means the applicant is lying on his tax forms and thus a possibility of denial under lacking good moral character.

Just a thought!!!

Never ever claimed my parents as dependent on my return. So, in my case, there is no question of that.

Also, as LolaLi says - this does not appear very relevant.

I got a bit irritated at such irrelevant questions, but kept a calm face and thought "What intent or angle or point of view is he trying to probe?" Seemed irrelevant and nosy questions on my personal family life to me.

But, anyways - I posted to see if you folks can come up with some "angle" that they were trying to look at. (Nosy ofcourse is one).

More out of curiosity I posted this in the thread. My wife also is puzzled why the IO would ask these 2 questions.

I mean, if we are citizen, should we not support our parents if they need financial help!?
 
It's clear to me: if you are not supporting your parents then you do not have a good moral character :)
 
i was also asked that question, but the io was more or less just reading all the answers that i put down on the n400 application.

however, the id did slow down when i answered "yes and no, one is and one isn't" this is obvious, because i got greencard as a child of my citizen parent.

imho, the io intervew hundreds of applicants every month. it must be a boring job repeating the same questions over and over again. :)
 
when my mom went for the interview n400, they asked her how she got her greencard and told her she was a fraud. the poor lady was scared cuz she doesnt speak english all that much to go argue and she said no my husband is a citizen so the IO was all rude flipping the file with huge paper sounds..i feel bad for my mom. other things like that happen to other people and like i said they do deny u just cuz they can or cuz they didnt like what they heard from ur mouth that lead them to thinking u dont deserve to become a citizen.
 
when my mom went for the interview n400, they asked her how she got her greencard and told her she was a fraud. the poor lady was scared cuz she doesnt speak english all that much to go argue and she said no my husband is a citizen so the IO was all rude flipping the file with huge paper sounds..i feel bad for my mom. other things like that happen to other people and like i said they do deny u just cuz they can or cuz they didnt like what they heard from ur mouth that lead them to thinking u dont deserve to become a citizen.


that is just wrong. maybe your mother should think about filing a complaint with the uscis? i know i would! :)
 
Are your parents US citizens? - THIS IS CLEARLY in the N-400, so no surprise that IO asked this. My answer was No, they are not. (same answer as written in N-400)


Surprise questions (atleast I felt it was a surprise, given I havent read such qns in this forum):

1. Do you own property in your home country India?
(why does the IO ask this? Any connection to the Citizenship?)

2. Do you (financially) support your parents back in India?


What relevance and why would the IO ask this?



Do you remit money to your country more often? Maybe they have record of that and want to clarify that... want to know if you are either buying property backhome or sending money to your family backhome...
 
If u sent money to folks in home country but only small amount checks, and ONLY on rare occasions. Not often.

But how do they track personal bank checks now!?
 
Funnily enough many friends have bought property and apartment flats in India as investments. I havent.

But can someone not buy?
 
The interview officers know what they are doing and know what they are looking for even if you do not see the rationale. They most likely asked about land back home to see if you might slip up. Owning property might make it seem you might have actually moved back there at some point and are hiding it from them to preserve continous residency etc. Same can go with supporting parents, they may feel by supporting them you are travelling back there a lot more or living there with them to help them out more then you have stated on your N-400.

Don't think what they ask is irrelevant at all, there's a reason they are asking it, you just may not know the reason at that moment of why. And yes, I'm sure it actually does pertain to your acceptance or denial of the interview.

They know how to read body language and are pretty good judges when someone is caught up in a lie. The interview after all is for you to undeniably prove you are what you say you are and how you have qualified by not falsifying the N-400. They want to test you out to be sure...
 
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