DV AOS Interview - Chicago FO - Approved
As I have said many times, I am so grateful to this forum and people here who helped, supported and guided us along the way, during the entire AOS process. We were approved yesterday.
Our interview was originally scheduled for Jan 6th but the Chicago FO was closed due to snow. We were re-scheduled to 12-Feb. My wife (Primary) is on H1B and I am on H1B too. Our appts. were at 10:15 and 10:45. We went to the FO at 9:45, went to 2nd floor. Guy at the reception took our letters and gave us a pager. At 10:30, our number was called (pager doesnt work I guess) and we went in together. The IO was a nice young woman and she had our files open in front of her. She made us take the oath and asked to sit. As we were sitting down, she asked us to take out our passports, ids, birth and marriage certs.
She then turned to my wife and went through the I-485 form. Basic Info like last entered, which visa, and Yes/No questions. She then did the same for me. She asked us to sign at the end of a paper stating that we have given all this info. She then asked for original marriage certificate and original birth certificate. She just compared with what we had sent in the file. Didnt read through. She then asked if we had any additional proof of our marriage. We had taken an album that my wife had gifted me for our 5 year anniversary. It had pics from our marriage and subsequent 5 years. She went through the entire album, our trip to europe, carribean, etc. I guess she was just seeing the places
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Well, after this the golden words: I am approving your case and allot you a visa number. You should receive ur card in 3-4 weeks. All this time, she was writing continuously in our file, making notes (She did Nothing on the computer).
She didnt even take our I-94s. We told her, do we need to submit these? she said: hmm....they are still valid, you can keep it....??
Anyways, we came out happy since she said we were approved.
Two things I would like to mention:
1.) Our status is still in "Acceptance". Seeing the past Chicago FO experiences, I think I will wait for 3-4 days.
2.) We weren't given any "interview results" letter. I think I read somewhere that they give.
Anyways, hopefully everything has went fine. Once again, Thank you ALL.