Thank you for the luck!
Good luck. Half the battle is overcoming one's own nerves
So true. I worked myself up so much this morning, I was fine until we got into the car and then the panic hit!
But guess what.....I'm now a Legal Resident of the USA!!!!
So here's my experience:
Our appointment was at 9:15am...We got to the office at about 8:50am. I took a minute to calm myself down
and we went in, gave our form to the right people and sat in the waiting room. There were two other couples there when we arrived, the first was called in... The other couple had a lawyer with them, who said "We're next."... So we waited a few minutes, expecting to wait at least 20 more minutes, another couple arrived... And my name was called. So we walked past the couple with the lawyer and followed the guy into his office.
He got us to do the oath and sat us down. (Just to be me, I pick the extrememly squeaky chair that screams every time I adjust my position!!!
hubby and I had a giggle about it anyway!).
The officer asks for our passports and hubby's driving license. He gets to my I-94 and says "So Charlotte, you arrived on a visitor's visa, did you intend to stay or did you intend to go home?" So I replied that I intended to go home.
He asked why I stayed, I told him "I came here to meet Alex and decided I wanted to spend some more time with him."
He then asks if we'd met before this trip and I said "Not in person.."
He pauses and then asks me if I had a job and where I worked in the UK before I came out here, I replied "Yes, I worked at the Department for Work and Pensions..." He asked what I used to do, "I signed people on for benefits." He gave a strange look and I thought "OMG, I've screwed up!!" after that he spent ages flicking through all our paperwork, while I was sat at the edge of my seat waiting for him to suddenly start quick-firing questions at me!!
Well that didn't happen! He asked me the 'yes' 'no' questions and then asked how we met. I told him "On the internet"...
He flicked through some more papers and asked if we had any more proof that we were a genuine couple, so we gave him our joint bills, engagement/wedding cards etc.. He flicked through those and asked "So, on the internet, what do you do nowadays, type in someone's name and...??" so I explained how we met on an RP site and he joked saying we don't expect an old guy like him to know anything about that, but his daughter met someone on the internet... Then he read the congrats card we got from Alex's work and asks him about his job (in Hydraulics) and says he has some experience...being quite chatty about it...and just has a general chat with him until he's finished looking through all the stuff. He hands everything back and flicks through our paperwork one more time, gets a stamp out and stamps "APPROVED" on our forms!!!
Says we should have the Green Card through within 2-3 weeks!
We got out of the building and into our car at 9:15am!! PHEW.
TBH most of the time we were in his office was him flicking through our paperwork, circling things, going through other things... He asked about a sign that I bought Alex with our names on it and we both explained what it was and where it hangs in our apartment... Alex voiced how much he loves it...
It wasn't as pressurized as I was expecting, the guy seemed perfectly happy with the documents we had already submitted (I think the congrats cards were a good thing to have taken!) and just seemed to want to get us done and out the door!
