My interview experience

starlet said:
Guys,

We got approved at the LA DO office this morning and wanted share our experience.

Our appt was scheduled for 9:35 am and we got in the waiting room at 9am. Submitted the appt letter to a lady and waited for our names to be called. I would say 8 out of 10 pple had their lawyers with them. I used my lawyer to file the paperwork but saw no point bringing him for the interview paying $650 extra. However, we consulted with the lawyer last week to prep for the interview.

Anyways, our name was called out finally at 10:10am. Officer Rios called our names and led us to his office room. He introduced himself first and swore us before we took our seat. First thing he asked us what is our relationship? Then he asked for IDs and docs showing both our names to establish our relationship. We only had joint bank a/c statement and car insurance contract stating both our names.

While I was taking them out from the folder, the IO started asking questions to my wife....name, age, address, when we got married, place of birth etc. The questions did not follow any patterns but most sounded like straight cut details from the forms filed. He ticked off and wrote small comments after each answers.

Then he turned to me. Double checked some details right from the forms. I provided him with the social security number which was not mentioned when we filed the forms. He took a note of that. He then moved to the legendary "no" questions.

He then started talking our home country and how we had good shrimps from there. He started numerous questions regarding our home country and was just talking off the records. While talking to us, he was filling out numerous internal forms. Through the edge of my eye, I saw him signing off on the welcome letter. He also attached the evidence we provided, my EAD card, and photocopies we provided to the file. He then took my social security card, my wife's DL and some docs and asked us to wait...he is gonna be back soon.

When he returned he said congrats, smiled, you have been approved and you will receive your card in 2-3weeks. I asked him should we celebrate.....he said....yeah just dont get too drunk. We thanked him and smiled.

Voluntarily, i asked him so there is no issue with my namecheck? He replied back what is that and having an expression that he doesnt have any clue what i am talking. He laughed and said sounds like you are not happy with the good news I gave you?

He said ok since its a concern for you, let me double check. He then spent around 7-10 mins on his computer completing different forms online. He then turned and said you are all set.

He said congrats....welcome to the US to me, shook our hands and said you can celebrate now. He gave us the welcome letter and another instruction page detailing about the 2-yr conditional GC. We thanked him back and left the office.

The officer was in his 50s-60s from Philipino, very polite and friendly. When we came out, we realize that we were inside for almost 40 mins. Most of that time he spent writing down.

So, in a nut shell it was lengthy but a pleasant experience.
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Congratulations! :cool:
 
PraetorianXI said:
The condition is to prevent people from engaging in marriage fraud.

Anyone who has been married less than 2 years, at the time of the approval, will be given a conditional GC, valid for 2 years.

90 days before the expiration of that GC, the new resident must file I-751 along with the spouse, to remove the conditions.
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Thanks for the info... But having a son from the marriage doesn't prove that its not a fraud as in fraud marriages people don't have kids :)

Anyways, by the time I get GC, it will be 3-4 months short of 2 years and I can file for removing conditions in 2 months right after I get the GC?
 
it does not matter to USCIS. You need to file I-751 timely, ONLY within 90 days before the conditional card expires.

You could postpone your interview until you have been married for 2 years and that way you would get the 10 years card.
 
omorpheus said:
Anyways, by the time I get GC, it will be 3-4 months short of 2 years and I can file for removing conditions in 2 months right after I get the GC?
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No - If you're not married for 2 years yet, you will simply get a 2 year conditional GC. Then 90 days prior to the 2 years being up (2 years meaning the 2 year GC and NOT your marriage for 2 years) you file to have the conditions removed and then you get a 10 year GC.
 
pville85 said:
My DO is Atlanta,and yes we rock n roll down here,everything is fast.If I had't recieved a rfe I might have gotten it quicker.
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Atlanta was also my DO and everything was done in FAST! I applied in May 2. I got my GC approved Aug 7. And that iclydes an RFI and a 2 week trip on AP.
 
RFI is healthy!!

pville85 said:
My DO is Atlanta,and yes we rock n roll down here,everything is fast.If I had't recieved a rfe I might have gotten it quicker.
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Just a strange observation, I dont know if you guys would agree. I have seen a lot of cases with RFIs in genereal moving fast. In particular when the authority receives the paperwork, they seem to act on the case right away to move to the next step versus a non-RFI case where there is no indication when they will be rolling.

Dont know if this makes sense at all!

Cheers
 
PraetorianXI said:
Atlanta was also my DO and everything was done in FAST! I applied in May 2. I got my GC approved Aug 7. And that iclydes an RFI and a 2 week trip on AP.
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That was incredibly fast!

starlet said:
Just a strange observation, I dont know if you guys would agree. I have seen a lot of cases with RFIs in genereal moving fast. In particular when the authority receives the paperwork, they seem to act on the case right away to move to the next step versus a non-RFI case where there is no indication when they will be rolling.

Dont know if this makes sense at all!

Cheers
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You know now that you mentioned it I have seen a couple cases like that myself.That's strange.
 
starlet said:
Just a strange observation, I dont know if you guys would agree. I have seen a lot of cases with RFIs in genereal moving fast. In particular when the authority receives the paperwork, they seem to act on the case right away to move to the next step versus a non-RFI case where there is no indication when they will be rolling.

Dont know if this makes sense at all!

Cheers
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Maybe true. In my case just after RFE was received, case was resumed and got EAD approved 4 days later.

Excluding the time the case was suspended online because of RFE, to card production ordered was 54 days.

Note, I do not know if I am right doing so, but I consider the date you see CARD ORDERED, to be the actual date of having EAD. The rest is just mailing and technicalities.
 
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