greg_dv2006
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Hi there,
Yesterday, my wife and I had our DV AOS appointmet. We came to the Immigration Office pretty early since our interview was scheduled at 7:45 am. Frankly, I expected to see, perhaps, 4-10 more people not counting us. To my surprise, I suddenly realized I was in the middle of the room with circa 150 other people waiting for their interviews. This number soon doubled. It is probably why we were called after almost 4 hours of waiting.
We followed an immigration officer to her room. We took an oath standing, and then we started showing to her all the required documents: birth certificates, a marriage certificate, DV fee receipt, and my high school diploma (I asked her if she wanted to see my college diploma, but she said it wasn't necessary).
Because, my wife was an H1B visa holder, the officer wanted to see an employment letter from her job and the recent pay stubs, the last year tax return and she asked her some job related things. In the meantime, while checking some documents and making some notes, she started asking us all those have-you-ever questions that you can find in the I-485 Form. Then she asked me if I had a job offer, and since I did I handed it to her.
Everything was pretty smooth until she looked at the I-134 Affidavit of Support and said that she didn't see a copy of the sponsor's green card.
Since I didn't have it on me, and honestly didn't even know I needed it, I told her that I wasn't aware it was necessary but I knew his A number was written down in the form. She answered very politely that it is my responsibility to deliver the proof, and not hers to find it. At this point I felt a little helpless and confused.
Fortunately, I recalled that I had a transleted bank statement from my country showing that I had some investments over there so I gave it to her asking if this could be used instead.
She checked it out, asked if we had any savings here, checked that out as well, took another look at tax returns and said that it would do.
Then she took the original I-94s from our passports and asked us to wait outside.
She called us after about 10 minutes and handed our passports over to us with the I-551s stamped to them. I don't have to tell you how good it felt at that point 'cause everybody who went through a successful interview knows what I'm talkin about. I wish everybody still waiting for their turns the same.
So we made it, and now are waiting for our creen cards in the mail
I want to thank you Hmz, Borya, Alincosma, Afraid, Canonurum, Marvadur, Vk96 and others for sharing your thoughts on this forum. It was very helpful on my way to the Green Card. Thanks to this forum I did everything myself with no lawer involved.
Thanks, and good luck
Greg_DV2006
Yesterday, my wife and I had our DV AOS appointmet. We came to the Immigration Office pretty early since our interview was scheduled at 7:45 am. Frankly, I expected to see, perhaps, 4-10 more people not counting us. To my surprise, I suddenly realized I was in the middle of the room with circa 150 other people waiting for their interviews. This number soon doubled. It is probably why we were called after almost 4 hours of waiting.
We followed an immigration officer to her room. We took an oath standing, and then we started showing to her all the required documents: birth certificates, a marriage certificate, DV fee receipt, and my high school diploma (I asked her if she wanted to see my college diploma, but she said it wasn't necessary).
Because, my wife was an H1B visa holder, the officer wanted to see an employment letter from her job and the recent pay stubs, the last year tax return and she asked her some job related things. In the meantime, while checking some documents and making some notes, she started asking us all those have-you-ever questions that you can find in the I-485 Form. Then she asked me if I had a job offer, and since I did I handed it to her.
Everything was pretty smooth until she looked at the I-134 Affidavit of Support and said that she didn't see a copy of the sponsor's green card.
Since I didn't have it on me, and honestly didn't even know I needed it, I told her that I wasn't aware it was necessary but I knew his A number was written down in the form. She answered very politely that it is my responsibility to deliver the proof, and not hers to find it. At this point I felt a little helpless and confused.
Fortunately, I recalled that I had a transleted bank statement from my country showing that I had some investments over there so I gave it to her asking if this could be used instead.
She checked it out, asked if we had any savings here, checked that out as well, took another look at tax returns and said that it would do.
Then she took the original I-94s from our passports and asked us to wait outside.
She called us after about 10 minutes and handed our passports over to us with the I-551s stamped to them. I don't have to tell you how good it felt at that point 'cause everybody who went through a successful interview knows what I'm talkin about.
I wish everybody still waiting for their turns the same.So we made it, and now are waiting for our creen cards in the mail
I want to thank you Hmz, Borya, Alincosma, Afraid, Canonurum, Marvadur, Vk96 and others for sharing your thoughts on this forum. It was very helpful on my way to the Green Card. Thanks to this forum I did everything myself with no lawer involved.
Thanks, and good luck
Greg_DV2006
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