My Interview experience on 12/17 in Cincinnati, Oh
Our appointment was at 1pm. Got there at 12:45pm, dropped the IL in the drop box and waited to be called. Around 1:30, we got called and my wife, my 7 months son, and I was escorted to the interview room. He sounded arogant at first, by focusing on some negative stuff during the period I was out of status with school. He asked about my F1 reinstatement and commented that lots of students tell the same story about their uncle or aunt not being able to pay their tuition. Anyway, while he was telling a story about other F1 cases, he had a phone call that lasted about 7 mins. After his phone call, he changed his mood. He appologizes about the delay, and said that he was the president of the union and that he was helping a member with some payroll issues. Anyway, At this moment his swored us in very briefly, and ask my wife about her job. Turn out that he used to do work for them while he worked as law enforcement agent. Couple of stories and laughs later, he asked me about my niece that I once claimed inmy taxes. I told him that we were living in the same household and my uncle allowed me to claim her. He did do his homework though, because at this point he has not even worried about my evidences yet. He was prepared and knew lots of things about me. He then asked how old our son was, and said that he was behaving very well. He asked what type of evidence we had and wanted to make copies of my son's birth certificate and our deed of our house. We didn't have join bank account, or credit card, and all the bills were in my wife's name. We had a total of 5 pictures. He was was not intersted on none of these. We don't believe in combining our accounts or credits card and we are so busy that we don't even take pictures. He said that my medicals wasn't complete but the doctor had some contradictory info in it, but he was going to disregard it and approve the case. He also, asked who prepared the paperwork and complimented me about it and said that i saved myself about $4000.00. He also that lots of attorneys come with clients but he like the way I prepared and organized everything. Finally, he told me that I needed to get my citizenship and apply for a job with them. Ofcourse I felt honored and I thanked him. He said i was going to get the card in 10 to 15 business days. He ask if we had any other question about removing the condition on the GC. We were fine, he walked us out and wish us luck. The whole interview was about 30-35 min.
The minute we got home, I got an email from Cris, saying Card ordered. Today got 2 emails, 1 saying I130 approved and 1 saying that Welcome letter was mailed.
Hope this helps, Good luck to all, keep your cool no matter what.
Thanks,
Our appointment was at 1pm. Got there at 12:45pm, dropped the IL in the drop box and waited to be called. Around 1:30, we got called and my wife, my 7 months son, and I was escorted to the interview room. He sounded arogant at first, by focusing on some negative stuff during the period I was out of status with school. He asked about my F1 reinstatement and commented that lots of students tell the same story about their uncle or aunt not being able to pay their tuition. Anyway, while he was telling a story about other F1 cases, he had a phone call that lasted about 7 mins. After his phone call, he changed his mood. He appologizes about the delay, and said that he was the president of the union and that he was helping a member with some payroll issues. Anyway, At this moment his swored us in very briefly, and ask my wife about her job. Turn out that he used to do work for them while he worked as law enforcement agent. Couple of stories and laughs later, he asked me about my niece that I once claimed inmy taxes. I told him that we were living in the same household and my uncle allowed me to claim her. He did do his homework though, because at this point he has not even worried about my evidences yet. He was prepared and knew lots of things about me. He then asked how old our son was, and said that he was behaving very well. He asked what type of evidence we had and wanted to make copies of my son's birth certificate and our deed of our house. We didn't have join bank account, or credit card, and all the bills were in my wife's name. We had a total of 5 pictures. He was was not intersted on none of these. We don't believe in combining our accounts or credits card and we are so busy that we don't even take pictures. He said that my medicals wasn't complete but the doctor had some contradictory info in it, but he was going to disregard it and approve the case. He also, asked who prepared the paperwork and complimented me about it and said that i saved myself about $4000.00. He also that lots of attorneys come with clients but he like the way I prepared and organized everything. Finally, he told me that I needed to get my citizenship and apply for a job with them. Ofcourse I felt honored and I thanked him. He said i was going to get the card in 10 to 15 business days. He ask if we had any other question about removing the condition on the GC. We were fine, he walked us out and wish us luck. The whole interview was about 30-35 min.
The minute we got home, I got an email from Cris, saying Card ordered. Today got 2 emails, 1 saying I130 approved and 1 saying that Welcome letter was mailed.
Hope this helps, Good luck to all, keep your cool no matter what.
Thanks,
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as it approaches but will be so glad when its done. I've spent the past week getting everything together and making copies of all. We're seeing our lawyer this afternoon for a practice interview and to make sure that we've got all of our ducks in a row.