Hello friends,
My wife and I had our first interview for her AOS July 23rd, 2009 and it went fairly well in my opinion. Questions were fairly simple but the officer did not swear us in, nor did she introduce herself, etc. At the end of the interview she asked whether we had brought additional evidence, and we provided the following:
1-) Joint bank account statement
2-) Life insurance with my wife listed as the beneficiary
3-) Car title with both our names on it
4-) Car insurance
5-) Cell phone bill under my name (but had both numbers listed on it). I called the cell phone company and they told me it was not possible to add her to the account, which I find very odd but I did not feel like arguing with them at the time.
6-) Joint tax return for 2008 (They already had a copy of this), but it was not provided during the interview although I had it with me.
A little background on us...
We're living with my parents at the moment since we're planning to purchase a home next month (we're closing mid-September), so we were trying to save as much money as possible. With that said, we did not have a lease under our name nor did we have utility bills because they are under my parent's names.
At the end of the interview the officer said she was going to review the case and that we should be receiving a decision by mail within 30 days. About a week went by and we received a letter from the local office addressed to my wife, requesting that she be present this month with evidence showing a bona fide marital relationship with it. The letter is not very clear and is rather vague, but I am not letting my wife go in by herself so I am taking the day off that day to accompany her.
Does this seem odd to you? In my humble opinion I believe we provided plenty of evidence the first time around. Additionally, I also had to travel to her home country for the K-1 visa as a split interview was required - one which we passed with ease.
The officer seemed to like the fact I worked for the government(local county) while we were in the office, so I am not sure what triggered this 'request for evidence'.
Have any of you experienced something like this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Note: We have plenty of evidence prior to our marriage since we've known each other for 8 years now. We have stacks of emails, plane tickets when I visited her home country, etc but I believe none of this applies since it was prior to our marriage, is this a good assumption?
My wife and I had our first interview for her AOS July 23rd, 2009 and it went fairly well in my opinion. Questions were fairly simple but the officer did not swear us in, nor did she introduce herself, etc. At the end of the interview she asked whether we had brought additional evidence, and we provided the following:
1-) Joint bank account statement
2-) Life insurance with my wife listed as the beneficiary
3-) Car title with both our names on it
4-) Car insurance
5-) Cell phone bill under my name (but had both numbers listed on it). I called the cell phone company and they told me it was not possible to add her to the account, which I find very odd but I did not feel like arguing with them at the time.
6-) Joint tax return for 2008 (They already had a copy of this), but it was not provided during the interview although I had it with me.
A little background on us...
We're living with my parents at the moment since we're planning to purchase a home next month (we're closing mid-September), so we were trying to save as much money as possible. With that said, we did not have a lease under our name nor did we have utility bills because they are under my parent's names.
At the end of the interview the officer said she was going to review the case and that we should be receiving a decision by mail within 30 days. About a week went by and we received a letter from the local office addressed to my wife, requesting that she be present this month with evidence showing a bona fide marital relationship with it. The letter is not very clear and is rather vague, but I am not letting my wife go in by herself so I am taking the day off that day to accompany her.
Does this seem odd to you? In my humble opinion I believe we provided plenty of evidence the first time around. Additionally, I also had to travel to her home country for the K-1 visa as a split interview was required - one which we passed with ease.
The officer seemed to like the fact I worked for the government(local county) while we were in the office, so I am not sure what triggered this 'request for evidence'.
Have any of you experienced something like this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Note: We have plenty of evidence prior to our marriage since we've known each other for 8 years now. We have stacks of emails, plane tickets when I visited her home country, etc but I believe none of this applies since it was prior to our marriage, is this a good assumption?
