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csctransfer

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finally got my passport stamped.

arrived at Chula Vista 7:20am, handed in interview notice and fingerprinted. called in @ 8:10am. the officer is ok. asked general questions. i am NIW case, kind of worried because I changed job and current work is not exactly the same as the work in my original application (area of study - biology - is not changed, but the subject of study changed to a different organism: from plant to human). surprisingly, the officer asked for my current employment letter which was written by my manager and tried to ensure that my current job uses the same skills and training I got from my previous job (graduate student), he read it and nodded his head while reading it and asked whether the current employer is the same as the original employer, I said no and my lawyer added that my case was NIW. then that's it, no more employment questions. he didn't question my work, nor my title.

the following question is just formula, no tricky question at all. then without telling us he is going to approve it, he started to stamp our passports. end of it. he made a copy of the passports and the stamps, gave them back to us. we got our green card.

he took the following documents:
last 3 year tax return, W2 (photocopy)
employment letter
my rental lease agreement
checked my driver license
previous EAD and AP
I-94s


he didn't check/take:
marriage cretificate
birth certificate
bank account statement
last 3 pay checks ( very surprised)
degree diplomas
I-485 receipt or I-140 receipt (he has them in his file already)

Thanks to all members and wish you all good luck

RD/ND: April 2001 (TSC)
1st FP: July 2001
2nd FP: December 2003
interview notice: Feb 2, 2004
 
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what kind of rental lease agreement you need to show

Hi, csctransfer
Congratulations on your GC approval!
Just one question, what kind of rental lease agreement you need to show? I am doing contract job and use my friend's address (thus no name on their lease agreement), is there any problem with this?
Thanks!
 
Re: what kind of rental lease agreement you need to show

Originally posted by dvdhe
I am doing contract job and use my friend's address (thus no name on their lease agreement), is there any problem with this?
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dvdhe,

Your name will HAVE to be on the lease, otherwise there is NO proof that you live legally in that house. How do you expect to prove your residency status without your name on the documents? :)
 
Re: what kind of rental lease agreement you need to show

Originally posted by dvdhe
Hi, csctransfer
Congratulations on your GC approval!
Just one question, what kind of rental lease agreement you need to show? I am doing contract job and use my friend's address (thus no name on their lease agreement), is there any problem with this?
Thanks!
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I guess you can only tell the officer the truth that you get a free living place at your friend's home. I don't think it's really mandatory that you have to show rental lease agreement in my case (juts my opinion), the officer asked and I happen to bring one with me, so just gave it to him, but he even didn't bother to look at it. you may think of other alternatives to prove you live locally, maybe your credit card statement, bank statement? anything you can think to prove your residence?

one more thing worth mentioning: I used my friend's address for all previous correspondence. this morning I told the officer my current address, so he changed his record in the documents, no question asked. I ever worried that I didn't notify INS with 10 days of the address change..... but the officer doesn't care at all.
 
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Thanks a lot!
Actually, my living is not free. :-( I just let my friend to collect my letters and I stay there only when I come back for some short period of time. It is campus housing, so it is hard to add a name there, especially for one who is not even a student...

Since INS address change is not as fast as our address change, there will always possible to lose document since USPS will not forward letters from INS. What a bad and unreasonable policy...

:-(
 
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