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Appalachian said:
Thanks for your response. My concern is what if the company doesn’t have policy to provide such employment verification letters.
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Most companies do issue employment verification letter. Anyway why not try first with your employer, in place of assuming or coming up with pre-made excuse about them having a policy against issuing an employment verification letter.
 
Hi mom,

Have you ever heard or seen a case of someone going through an interview with pending misdemeanor charges?
Does this immediately disqualify one from getting a green card?
I received a misdemeanor citation (was not booked in jail or finger printed) after I already submitted my package to USCIS. Obviously in the documents I said that I've never committed a crime before since at the time I had not received the misdemeanor charge yet. As of now, I already did my biometrics and I have my interview next week. The misdemeanor in my case is not a crime of moral turpitude and the judge actually wants to give me a pre-prosecution diversion, which means that if I don't get cited for any other crime in the next 90 days, all charges will get dropped. However, as you perfectly know I don't have 90 days to wait and show them the final disposition since 1) my interview is next week and 2) the deadline for fiscal year 2021 is September 30th. The problem is that, although my misdemeanor case will ultimately get dismissed, I will show up at the green card interview with a pending court case and I am afraid that this alone will disqualify me.
I know this question is probably more suited for immigration attorneys and I actually already consulted many, however since I realized that you know more about this process than most immigration attorneys, I thought I'd shoot my shot.
Let me know if you know anything about this.

Thank you for your help as always.
 
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kdkdkdkd said:
I just wore a shirt and khakis, business casual attire. In the room, I observed that most people were leaning towards more business attire.

In my AOS package, I did not include any financial documents. I have printed and brought my tax returns for last 3 years and bank statements for last 4 months. The interviewing officer was not interested in seeing these documents in my case. She only wanted the employer verification letter, the last 3 paystubs, and I just remembered that I provided copies of W-2 forms from my work as well. She basically said "can you give me evidence of your work or education?" and didn't ask for specific paperwork. hope this helps!
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Thanks, super helpful!
 
Lucio said:
Hi,
Just wanted to update the NYC people looking to do a walk-in.
We tried Monday morning (8 am) last week in LIC and Friday at 3 pm in Manhattan, got rejected twice (was told at both locations that they do not accept walk-in). We went back today at the Manhattan one around 10:45 am, the security person told us to wait on the side while the 11 am appointments were all processed. Then told us to pass security and go up to the 10th floor and the person over there told us they can accept us today. At 11:35 am we were out with our bio done.
To pass the security guard and ASC screening we mentioned that we're DV lottery cases, thus time-sensitive, and that our interview is on Tuesday the day following our scheduled Bio. Everyone was friendly and helpful, just need to be patient and explain clearly the reason for your walk-in and you might be successful too.
Wishing good luck to everyone here and thanks again for all the tips and tricks to @Sm1smom, @SusieQQQ, and the other chat members.
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Thanks for sharing! Might try a walk-in there tomorrow too :)
 
kdkdkdkd said:
Hi all,

Today I had my AOS I-485 interview in Brooklyn Field Office (26 Federal Plaza) at 11:35am. Sharing my experience here in case it helps other Brooklyn folks.

I wasn't familiar with the area so I arrived early and waited outside for some time. I went inside the building 20 minutes before the scheduled time using the entrance to the building on Lafayette street. I went through security similar to airport security, which took me about 5-10min to pass. Once I entered, I took the elevator to 8th floor as my interview notice had the room number 800. My understanding is that you can only enter this room 15 minutes before the scheduled time. I would advise enter the building a bit earlier to pass through security.

I entered the room and checked in by the counter by providing my notice. They took the first page of my notice and returned the rest along with a ticket with a number in line. There were about 4-5 groups before me. I waited for about 1hour 15minutes in the waiting room before the IO called me in. Luckily, my interviewing officer is the training officer on diversity cases so she was fully aware that I only had until 9/30 to complete the process. We started with taking the oath and taking fingerprints of the index fingers. I was told this is not part of the biometrics but simply a USCIS process to register my visits to FO.

She was interested in how I maintained my current status. She wanted to establish a timeline of how I maintained my status since college and wrote down notes in the case file for future reference. I have been on F1 student visa and have been working on OPT and CPT so I provided all my I-20s, EAD cards, transcripts, diplomas, employer verification letter, paystubs. As I already provided the birth certificate copy, KCC letters, proof of payment as part of my AOS package - she did not ask to see these originals again. She also asked how many times I entered the green card lottery, whats the name of my graduate program, my nationality, did I get vaccinated, etc.

She then proceeded to ask the long list of questions on the I-485 form. Once done, I asked to make 4 changes on the I-485 form and she helped me make the adjustments, then asked me to confirm that those were the only changes and asked me to sign at the end of a I-485 form. After this was done, she asked me if I had any questions and I asked about next steps. She said she will need to review all the documents and she will try to make a decision by end of day. If she see any issues with it, she said she will need to request for evidence. Since it's time sensitive, she asked me for my phone number so that she can call me directly in case they needed more evidence. She said it usually takes a couple of days for the system to update the online case status so keep an eye on that. Overall the interview experience was quite smooth, only the waiting period was longer than expected. On my way home, I checked my online case status and it's changed to "New Card Is Being Produced".

Thanks all for your help and I wish all the best to everyone who is still in the process.
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Thanks for your feedback. It’s helpful.
 
Some info on my recent bio walk-in attempts that might be useful to someone:

* I tried Indianapolis FO twice and was turned away by security both times. I think this is a waste of time and I probably won't try again.
* on Monday I tried Norridge, IL, Burbank IL and Michigan City, IN and was turned away from all 3.

It seems like Monday is a terrible day to try a walk-in. The 3 in the Chicago area I tried were all pretty busy, but they were all sympathetic and all said I might be ok to walk in later in the week. I'm going to try Norridge again tomorrow.
 
RKVA900 said:
Hi mom,

Have you ever heard or seen a case of someone going through an interview with pending misdemeanor charges?
Does this immediately disqualify one from getting a green card?
I received a misdemeanor citation (was not booked in jail or finger printed) after I already submitted my package to USCIS. Obviously in the documents I said that I've never committed a crime before since at the time I had not received the misdemeanor charge yet. As of now, I already did my biometrics and I have my interview next week. The misdemeanor in my case is not a crime of moral turpitude and the judge actually wants to give me a pre-prosecution diversion, which means that if I don't get cited for any other crime in the next 90 days, all charges will get dropped. However, as you perfectly know I don't have 90 days to wait and show them the final disposition since 1) my interview is next week and 2) the deadline for fiscal year 2021 is September 30th. The problem is that, although my misdemeanor case will ultimately get dismissed, I will show up at the green card interview with a pending court case and I am afraid that this alone will disqualify me.
I know this question is probably more suited for immigration attorneys and I actually already consulted many, however since I realized that you know more about this process than most immigration attorneys, I thought I'd shoot my shot.
Let me know if you know anything about this.

Thank you for your help as always.
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Yes I know more about the DV based AOS process than most immigration attorneys, I certainly do not know more (and I do not lay claim to do so) about immigration laws than most attorneys. There are situations where I do recommend people get legal opinions and this is one of those. Outside of saying you’ll need to disclose the charges and citations when you do attend your interview, I’m sorry I cannot provide any additional guidance on this issue outside of telling you to obtain and follow legal counsel.
All the best!
 
Hi Sm1smom, thanks so much for your advice. I'm glad to say that I got my interview for the Brooklyn FO!

I had already launched a congressional inquiry and tier 2 request to get it scheduled but now it's scheduled, should I withdraw these to avoid any upset? My only concern is if the interview (8th Sept - knock on wood has issues and it would be good to have them on back up rather than waiting another 30 business days.
 
nl2021 said:
Hi Sm1smom, thanks so much for your advice. I'm glad to say that I got my interview for the Brooklyn FO!

I had already launched a congressional inquiry and tier 2 request to get it scheduled but now it's scheduled, should I withdraw these to avoid any upset? My only concern is if the interview (8th Sept - knock on wood has issues and it would be good to have them on back up rather than waiting another 30 business days.
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Thanks for the update and congrats on getting the IL. Yes, you should inform your Congress person’s office about receiving your IL. You don’t have to do anything about the pending Tier 2 call.
 
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