GC interview for the parent. Share of experience is needed

pleasetellmewhy said:
I suggest you to do a Infopass at uscis then you could face to face with I/O to ask the questions. And see what they say.
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I've already scheduled an appointment. The only problem is that the first day available was a day before our interview. :confused: And I still don't even know what to ask. They, probably, won't reveal to me what they are going to ask on the interview.
 
Anna Rotakhina said:
I've already scheduled an appointment. The only problem is that the first day available was a day before our interview. :confused: And I still don't even know what to ask. They, probably, won't reveal to me what they are going to ask on the interview.
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you should ask if you could company your mom during the interview and ask if there particular documentation you need to prepare for the interview and see if there are any potential problems in the application.
 
Anna, in my opinion, there are two things you can do: 1) call USCIS cust. service and talk to an IO (use the trick that people on this forum discovered to get through the cust. service rep.) and explain your situation. 2) Find a professional translator just in case.

Not sure if anybody would be able to exactly tell you what the IO is going to ask your mother. But you can probabily expect the IO go through the application and ask the same questions again. Then the IO might ask questions like: why did you (yuor mother) decide to stay in US?; have you ever been here?; do you intend to work or counting on your daughter?; etc,etc,etc. If I were you, I would not stress so much about your mother's interview. Even though I am not an immig. attorney, but using my logic I can't see anything wrong with your case. The IO would probabily be more worried about your mother not becomming a burden for US gov. So, he is going to look at your ability to support your mother; both material and medical.
 
zuzkin said:
CONGRADS:):):)

Could you tell us (if you want) how it went?
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I'm glad to share my experience. There was nothing out of ordinary. IO was very polite and apologized to us for waiting. After we entered his office IO asked me if I'm her daughter and told me to administer an oath to translate truthfully. Then he asked my mom to swear to tell the truth and only truth, and after my translation, mom said "I do". After that we were allowed to sit down. IO addressed his questions to my mom and looked very carefully at her reactions to my translation trying to understand whether she answered "yes" or "no". All questions were regarding documents: are you married, have you been to the US before, have you ever been a member of Communist Party, have you ever been arrested, have you had any problems with immigration services, did you ever lie to immigration services, etc. Then, IO asked for my birth certificate. After that he asked where in the documents that I've submitted he can find an information about changing my last name. I pointed to him the place in marriage certificate where it was shown that I changed last name in marriage. Even though I brought I-864 from my husband (just in case), there were no questions about affidavit of support. Neither he asked about why my mom came with a tourist visa and changed her mind later. But(just in case) I had with me a printout of her round trip ticket as a proof that she was not going to stay at first. At the end IO took out mom's employment authorization card and advanced parole docs saying that she doesn't need these anymore(that's where I got scared!).... and then he continued "because I've decided to issue her a green-card". WOW!
I scheduled an infopass appointment a day before the interview, but actually didn't go there. Since there were nowhere in the letter written that I as a daughter can not be a translator, I decided not to make sure, that I can not be the one. ;)
 
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