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My interview appointment was scheduled for 2:15 PM, I arrived to the District Office at 1:30 PM. Things started rough immediately, as I was going through security on the main floor, the police officer asked for the interview letter and an identification document of any sort. I gave him my driver's license and my interview letter.
The police officer immediately said, "listen, you are 15 minutes too early!, I can't let you in!" On the interview letter, it states, you must arrive
no earlier than 30 minutes before your schedule interview time, I was 40 minutes early!? Didn't know arriving early is a crime now days?
So, I waited, then the security guards finally let me in.
I checked in by giving my interview letter to the USCIS check in employee, she told me to sit down in a bored, monotoned, uninterested voice and so I did. When I arrived, there were ONLY two groups of people ahead of me, one Mexican lady with her Caucasian husband and an older white skined gentlemen with an European accent. One by one, they were called in and I got to see there were only two USCIS immigration officers conducting the interview, one older white guy and one younger white lady (kind of good looking).
So I'm sitting there thinking, OK, I'll be next and that's when another applicant walked into the waiting room. He's white with an European accent also. So now there are two of us in the waiting room, but with my luck, this other applicant who came after me was called in BEFORE me!!?
Again, there I was again, sitting all by myself and by this time it was already 2:20 PM (5 minutes past my scheduled appointment). Finally, I was called in around 2:55 PM (1.5 hours later) and my immigration officer was the older white dude.
Fist thing, he introduced himself and walked me to his office. He shuts the door and asked me to stand and raise my right hand to accept the interview oath. After that, he asked me to sit down and to give him my "green card", driver's license, and all my passports. First question he asked was "why is your name different from your "green card" than your driver's license? He was not happy. He then asked, "did you officially change your name?" I siad no, again, he became angry! He threw my documents down on his desk and we begin to go over my N400 application, EVERY QUESTION!
We had to update a lot of the information on the application because when I filed the N400, I was in another state so I had all new address and contact information, changed jobs, and etc, etc, etc,...
Then we finally got to the part of the N400 where questions were about my arrests, convictions, run in with the law. The immigration officer proceeded to DRILL me with a ton of questions on how, why, where, and what were you thinking about getting TWO DWIs? He then shared a story about how his niece were hurt by a drunk driver!!! At this time, I was peeping my pants, but I held my composure. After this section was over, he then proceeds to say, "you were denied once before weren't you?", I answered "yes" because I was on probation until
04/21/2003.
Then what I was afraid the most had happened, the immigration officer said, "we need 5 years of good moral character", you were still on probation on 04/20/2003, today is only 04/01/2008, which means within the last 5 years you were still on probation, therefore, you are not eligible for Naturalization today due to infringement of the 5-year good moral character rule!"
He said, "I can not recommend you for approval at this time!"
What's more fcuked up was, he still made me take the US History exam by giving me 10 questions:
Who's the current VP?
What do we celebrate on the 4th of July?
What is the Constitution?
Can Constitution be changed?
What is the National anthem of the US?
What is the head executive of a city government called?
Which President was the first Commander-in-Chief of the US Army and Navy?
What is the highest part of the Judiciary Branch of our Government?
Why are there 100 Senators in the US Senate?
How many full terms can a President serve?
He had me write:
"I came to
(the city where I interviewed) today for my interview!"
He then had the audacity to say, "congrats, you've at least passed the civic test!", got up from his chair, opens the door, then says, have a great day and you'll receive a final decision letter in the mail in the next 4-6 weeks!!!
I can't believe this is really happening to me!!!
Should I hire a lawyer?
