Interview at 26 Fed Plaza
Dear everybody,
We got the passports stamped.
My case: E3, employment based, RD 06/02/2002, transferred to NY 09/23/2003, applied under 245i. Came to the US in 2001, struggled every moment with our document situation. All the 245i cases get transferred for interviews.
We had the medicals done in 2002, the interviewer wanted to see if we had a complete medical again before the interview, after receiving the interview notice. He commented that sometimes the initial medicals expire or get lost. Make sure you have all the vaccines completed as well. Our interviewer was a wonderful young man, he asked me for the job letter (reinstating that I was still employed, salary, same as when you first applied), medicals, then standard questions like: ever been arrested, drugs, etc. Then he approved the case.
Now, I am convinced that he had read the file before he called us in.
We also went with lots of additional documents: taxes, employment letter from my husband, everything you can ever imagine, but he did not ask for anything else , probably the file had already everything he needed. We got a room in a hotel nearby , went with our lawyer early in the morning, the interview was scheduled for 8AM, got called in at 9AM.
Now, when I think back to my previous life before 2 days ago, I cannot say the interview was easy from a psychological view: it carried all the worries, tension and despair from all these years. But technically we were done in 5 minutes, it went straight forward.
I wish you all the best of luck.