HI There BMore,
I wanted to let you know how my interview went because I was looking all over this forum for baltimore interview before i went on mine and Baltimorians were so elusive, so I would like to help.
Ok, our interview was at 2:30pm. We got there at 1. From reading these fora I gathered you cannot take your cell phone in if it has a camera. My husband is a techy and has an i-phone that he loves browsing when he's bored. But i told him to leave it in the car, so they didn't call us until 3:30 and we were so bored and couldn't even tell what time it was without our phone. We saw one guy with an i-phone and my husband was regretting having left his in the car. Anyway, after almost falling asleep, they finally called us in. The lady was an African American lady in her late forties or early fifties. When we got too her office another younger African American lady was waiting there. My instictive reaction was to think there's something wrong with us to the point that a supervisor was there and they were going to gang up on us, but it was just a trainee. The lady swore us in and we sat down. We had everything they asked on the IL and more. She started with the I130 stuff and was completely ignoring me. She just asked my husband where and when we met. My husband explained that we met when i came in to interview where he worked. So the lady said, did you interview her, he said, no, I just happened to be the one closest to the door when she arrived for the interview, so I let her in and gave her a soda until the owner of the company arrived. He was so nervous he couldnt find his words for the owner of the company, so I ended that sentence before him and the lady told me firmly not to speak. Then, she asked when all that happened, my husband said it was at the end of the year 2006, I again corrected him and said it was 2005. at that point the lady got really mad at me and said very firmly, I said no help. I apologize. Then she could tell from our G325s that I had left that job. She asked if after I left, my husband kept in touch with me, he replied that we had already started dating while I was at the job. That pretty much were the only questions ever asked. Everythign else, was paperwork related and she was talking to the trainee and telling her stuff more than she talked with us for the rest of the time. She didn't ask for photos and she didn't ask for almost any of the things we had brought. All she took was a more recent bank statement of our joint account. Everything else, she just kept saying that we already submitted it. Again, she was just organizing paperwork and showing the trainee how to do it. Then she asked me a few no questions. Then she said, OK I have everything, I am recommending you for approval and you will get something in the mail. She asked me if I have questions and I asked her about travel with AP and she said yes, that's what the AP is for, to be able to travel while the app is pending.
When i went home that's what kept resonnating and the fact that she took all of my H1Bs, EADs, and even a former AP under another AOS app, but made sure she gave me back the current EAD and APs. That's why I am nervous that i may be in stuck in background check. But God is good, I will keep praying that I receive the welcome emails next week.
Sorry for the long post, like I said, I wanted to be able to help Bmore Hopeful. Let me know if you want additional information. YOu can also PM me if you want.
