CSC interview waiters -- two interview articles (San Jose) inside

[ciba]

rajeevtherunner and search in CSC I-485 interview waiting
list were interviewed recently in San Jose office. They
both successfully passed the interviews and sent me
e-mails describing their interview experiences.

Let us thank them for their contributions.

ciba

 

[ciba]

rajeevtherunner

   Interview In San Jose Office

   e-mail message sent by rajeevtherunner
on 09/27/01








Ciba,

Thanks a lot for all the work you have put into this excellent
Web site. The least I can do is share my experience for you
and all the others like me who have waited for so long to get
their "green" cards.

My handle is rajeevtherunner and your local interview list has
me down for interview on Sep 5, 2001. Here is what happened:

The appointment was for 12:30. My wife and I showed up at the
San Jose office at about 12:15 pm My lawyer showed up soon after.
We went in and were instructed to go up to Room 219 where we
dropped our interview letters in a tray in Window #2. We waited
for more than an hour (highly unusual as we later found out) before
being called. The officer\'s name was Robert Leigh (shades of the
Civil War) and he had been given our case because they were running
late that day since a few officers had not come in. He normally
handled marriage fraud cases but was given our that day.

We were sworn in and then he opened my file to find out why the case
had been shipped to SJ. I had had a misdemeanor sometime in 1986/87 but
had the good luck to have the charge stricken off the police records
after a year. When filing for I-485 I had included a letter from the
city\'s Police Dept that their search from 1989 to the present had not
yielded any info about me. Subsequent to the filing I received another
letter from the local Court that their records only extended back for
11 years from any date (hence the search from 1989 to 1999). My file in
front of the IIO had a letter from an IIO in Laguna Niguel asking me to
get clearance for the years 1986-1989. When I handed the IIO the second
letter he acknowledged that there was no way to get info that old and
the INS would never have known had I not owned up. He thanked me for
my honesty.

My wife had not taken a few shots (we even had an RFE in Feb about that)
but the IIO never went that far. He was about to stamp our passports (he
had already taken away our EADs and APs) when he noticed a particular
date on one of my forms. This date (July 25, 2001) was the date INS had
sent the CIA a query about me. An internal INS memo barred IIOs from
taking any action until 60 days had passed and the CIA had not replied.
He apologized saying that he could not stamp our passports until Sep 26,
2001 and he gave us a new appt for 10 am yesterday (Sep 26). We were there
at 10 am sharp and were out by 10:30 am having acquired a few stamped
lines and a few squiggles of a pen that ushered us into the world of US
Permanent Residency.

My particulars:

GC-I application PD: May 13, 1997

GC-I EDD cleared: Sep 1997

GC-I Labor cleared: May 1998

GC-I I-140 filed (req for EB2): May 1998

GC-I I-140 for EB2 refused: Mar 1999

GC-I I-140 for EB3 filed: Mar 1999

GC-II application PD: Aug 08, 1998

GC-II EDD cleared: Jan 1999

GC-II Labor cleared: Apr 23, 1999

GC-I EB3 I-140 approved: Nov 26, 1999

GC-II EB2 I-140 approved: Nov 26, 1999

I-485 RD: Jan 4, 2000

RFE (tax recs, emp letter etc.): Feb 2001

Xferred to SJ for local interview: Apr 10, 2001

Local Interview notice received: July 7, 2001

Local Interview held: Sep 5, 2001

Actual stamping in passport: Sep 26, 2001


rajeevtherunner

 

[ciba]

search\'s article

   Interview In San Jose Office

   e-mail message sent by search
on 10/02/01








hi ciba,
my name on your site is "search". i went for the interview and
got the stamp. i wrote about the experience below which you can
post on your site.


i went for the interview w/ my attorney. called in about half
an hour after my scheduled time. two officers, one was there
for observation as he was being trained.


my attorney and i couldn\'t figure out why i had to be
interviewed. but the main examiner got to it immediately.
the memo in my file asks to verify my EAD card. after that
it was all routine questions like what was my name, date
of birth, place of birth, etc. she then asked for an
employment verification letter and tax returns with W2s
(federal only), and read both fairly carefully. at the same
time the other examiner took my fingerprint (index finger only)
and had me sign on a signature card. that examiner also
asked me who my employer\'s CEO was. towards the end
she said some office in DC already closed for the day so
she couldn\'t get a visa number for me that day, and gave
me another appointment notice for the next morning to get
the stamp. she even said congratulations to me then.

the next morning half an hour or so after my scheduled time
the same examiner called me in and within 5 minutes or so she
stamped my passport and gave me two approval notices, w/ one
for the attorney. she also told me to check w/ the ins if i
don\'t receive the plastic card after 9 months.

so that was that. not sure why verifying my ead card would
need an interview. doesn\'t the ins have a record of issuing
me that card? i didn\'t ask the examiner that question though.
anyway, i\'m glad it\'s over. it did worry me somewhat.

the interview experience i read on this site helped me prepare
mine. i\'d like to thank everybody who contributed.


search

 

[Hal Love]

Thank you Ciba! Congratulations, Rajeevtherunner and Search!

Ciba!
Thanks a billion for lightning up the ways in the immigration maze.

Rajeevtherunner and Search!
We, all the members of Interview Club appreciate your contribution.
Your experiences are written as archives on the milestones, and showing the way to the new-comers.

Thank you all for your great efforts.

Hal Love