I was interviewed today at San Jose office for Adjustment of Status and was approved and stamped (both mine and my wife's). Here is how it went. In a nutshell, it was much easier than convincing my neighborhood Subway guy to not put pickels on my sandwitch.
The wait:
We went there 15 minutes before the time and my lawyer showed up 10 minutes after. I didn't put the letters in the box till the lawyer showed up. The waiting room is similar to the waiting room of the fingerprinting office. An elderly friendly officer called my name exactly at the interview time while we were waiting and I, my wife and the lawyer went in. He took us into his room.
The interview:
1. He asked both of us to raise our right hands and made us swear that we would say bothing but the truth
2. He had our files open and started saying that the my wife's medicals are incomplete since the doctor wrote on I-693 that my wife is pregnant and so can't take shots. I silently handed him the sealed medical envolope of my wife's updated medicals that we took last week.
3. He said that's all I have but since you are here I have couple of other questions
4. Are you still at the same address? (and read the address) I said yes
5. What is your date of birth? I said it
6. Are you still with same employer? I said yes.
7. Do you have current employment verification letter. I handed him over that one.
8. Do you belong to any political gorups? I said no
9. Have you been arrested? I said no
10. Looking at my wife and me .. are you still married and living together? We both said yes
11. Asked me for our passports. He pulled out the I-94s and put it on top of each of our files. He looked at my wife and asked the following questions
12. Are you still at the same address? (and read the address) She said yes
13. What is your date of birth? She said it
14. Do you belong to any political gorups? She said no
15. Have you been arrested? She said no
16. He looked into my file and said since I am in EB2 there should be no problem with getting visa numbers. He got the visa numbers from Dept of State online. That took 2-3 minutes.
17. He stamped on lot of papers and on our passports and gave the stamped passport and approval letter to us.
18. He took out index fingerprint and signature and said the actual cards should arrive in 8 weeks, but it is much faster these days
That's it. No W2, taxes, marriage cert, proof of marriage or birth cert. Took ton of stuff but just had to give wife's medicals and current employment letter.
The officer was extremely polite and was talking a lot with my lawyer. He aked my wife if her delivery was fine and if we had a boy or a girl. Finally congratualted us on being permanent residents and for having our son. He walked us out and asked us to take some candy that was lying on a table in the corridor.
I was expecting the stamp to look like F1/H1 stamps but it looked more like the stamp the car wash guy puts on the receipt.
