Going to an interview in Atlanta. Need you advice

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CKL

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RD 4/4/2002
NIW EB2

My wife and I received letters from INS. We are scheduled for an interview in Atlanta Georgia in few weeks. Our cases were filed to TSC in April 2002. However, we have not heard anything except the fingerprint notice in May last year.

My question is that are our cases transferred to Atlanta? The online message never changes at all. It still contains the famous message “It is taking from …”.

I am the primary applicant and my wife is with me. I changed job after I-140 was approved and before 180 days after I filed I-485. I was told that I should not get any trouble from job changing since my case is an NIW case. Could anyone please give me advise for the interview? How long will it take? What documentations (the original school diploma, etc) should I bring with me in additional to those in the list from INS?
Do I need to have my mental prepared for a denial?

I will take you what happened after the interview.

Thanks.

CKL :confused:
 
Interview call

Hi CKL,

I'm in same boat like you but the difference is that I'll be getting interview call from Louisville KY office. My case is concurrent filing in december 2003. Actually i'm a bit surprise on this early interview call. My 140 has been approved few months back and as per TSC msg it has been transfered to local INS office to conduct an interview. I guess that could be a good thing to happened early.

What happened to your interview? what did they ask for?

Thanks.

Shahid
 
CKL - I am confused, please provide more details.

CKL said:
RD 4/4/2002
NIW EB2

My wife and I received letters from INS. We are scheduled for an interview in Atlanta Georgia in few weeks.:confused:
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Friend, I am confused very much, as well. Do you imply that you received transfer notice from TSC about the transfer to Atlanta District Office (ADO) for an interview, or you got a letter from ADO directly, with a clear date and time for the interview and the list of items to be brought for the interview?

Why am asking is because your RD is April 2002. Currently ADO is inviting candidates for interview in the June-September 2001 range. Therefore, I am very surprised that you are called for the interview so quickly at ADO. Remember, mine is a transfer case to ADO as well, with no interview call, yet. If you mean that ADO has for sure called you for interview, I think, they have more reasons for having you interviewed out of sequence and hence it will be better for you to hire and take an attorney with you.

In either case, please confirm my doubts -- did you get an intimation about transfer from TSC or did you get an interview notice directly from ADO?
 
I feel all green

My wife and I went to the interview and got our passports stamped.
That is the most pleasent experience that I have ever had with INS.
Good luck to you all.
 
DEAR CKL...

What was the nature of your interview...? I mean what questions did they
ask... anything related to NIW..your job... ? as I am in the same boat..

..JSN..
 
interview experience

The officer did not ask us any questions. What the officer did was make sure every document has been received by the INS and was shown from the system.
Although I spent a week to prepare all the documentations listed on the interview notice. We were not asked to show to the office.

We then were asked those questions on I-485 form. If you remember, those questions are “have you ever been arrested”, “have you ever entered the USA illegally”, etc.
After all that, the officer keyed all the information (name, A number, birth date, etc) again into the computer system. Then, we were fingerprinted and got the passports stamped. It only took 20 minutes.

We received Form I-797 (type 181) in 10 days. The form indicated us that our records have been created and we should receive the cards in “3 weeks” as it is shown on the notice. After another 10 days, we received our cards. There is an interest thing I found out from the notice. The notice tells me to “carry the card all the time” when I receive it. However, the INS website says “at your possession” which means you do not have to carry it all the time but you know where it is in case you are asked to show it to the authority. Anyway, I carry my card all the time.

A legal assistant told me that no one really knows why some cases are transferred and some are not. There is no pattern to follow. An NIW case and non-NIW case are also transferred to Atlanta as they happened to my friends.

Transferring to a local office for an interview is in fact better than waiting for the news from TSC. At least, you know when you will get the greed card although not the physical one.

What I am saying here is that your case will be approved during the interview if it is not on the same day. I have not heard any one’s case got denied during the interview. There are some cases that the officer needs to see more documents and you forget to bring them. However, it is not the end of the world. You just bring them back to the office in few days and your case will be approved. One of my friends went to an interview on one Monday. He did not bring a document. The officer told him to bring it back on Wednesday and my friend got it wrong again. He finally went back to INS on Thursday with the right document and got his passport approved. I realize that the interview office indeed is helping us and not to give us hard time. However, the officer needs to follow the rules by asking more supporting documents if necessary.

If INS tends to deny a case, a letter will just do it. There is no need for INS to waste manpower by conducting an interview and then deny the case. For those of you who got transferred to a local office, you should be somewhat relieved because your case is passed the preliminary examination by the INS. Your approval is not far away.

There is another reason for me to believe that the interview is indeed the day of getting the approval. An interview case is well reviewed by the INS before it sent for an interview. The officer does not know the details of the case. Do you think the officer will spend time in reviewing hundred of pages of the cases he or she is to interview? Don’t be surprised that you are asked questions that you think the officer should have known.

I am very glad to see postings in this group that people are going for an interview because I know they and/or their families will begin a new life in few days.

To support you psychologically, I would like to say this again. Please be determinative that your case will be approve that day. All you have to do is relax and prepare all the required documents. Be there earlier and waiting for the good news. Of course, you need to pray if you believe in God as I do.

Good luck to all of you.

CKL
 
CKL Congrats to you and your family and thanks for your good wishes for the rest of us!!!! :)
 
Thanks,CKL!

Thanks a lot and Congratulations. It gave me an insight as I am looking forward to hearing from ATL soon about my own interview.
 
NIW and job change

CKL..

As you mentioned ..you changed your job after 140 approval...and it
was an NIW case..

Was the nature of job was exactly the same as you justified in your
NIW case ?

jsn
 
similar job

The new job is the nature of my previous job.
The officer did not ask me anything about the job change though the officer did comment that I worked for company A and I am working for company B.
I think it all depends on the officer. If he or she wants to approve you, no questions will be asked. If the officer wants to give you hard time, any questions will be miserable.
CKL
 
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