Hi,
I and my wife were approved yesterday (10/31/01) at Baltimore INS after the interview and our passports got stamped.
The case is EB2, RIR, India. PD - 04/99, RD - 10/00, ND - 11/00, TD - 05/17/01, ID - 10/31/01.
We were interviewed by Officer F. The line of questioning as I recall now is as follows:
1. Take Oath
2. Show Passport, EAD, I-94 and Drivers License
3. Verify basic information for both (mother\'s name, father\'s name, date of birth, place of birth, date of last entry to US etc.)
4. Verify employment (Name of the company, nature of the job, description of what exactly are the job duties, place of work, previous employment, name of previous company etc.)
5. Verify Qualifications (Highest degree received, the field in which degree was received)
6. Verify marriage (these questions were primarily directed to my wife - date of marriage, place of marriage, proof of legit marriage like common bank accounts, common credit cards statement, common lease, same address on the license etc.)
7. Verify wife\'s status (my wife was on F1 for a year, current employment for my wife, nature of job, letter of employment. Although my wife applied through me, she was asked for current status. Since she is now working, so they did not ask for Affidavit of Support i.e. I-134. But this is my guess).
8. Show originals (we were asked to show some of the originals later in the interview. I did not have birth certificate, so I took two affidavits - one from my father and one from elder brother. Plus I had non-availability certificate. Unfortunately, my non-availability certificate did not have any seals or notarization ... yeah, the original one looked like fake!. But then she asked for my original 10th grade certificate which is also recognized as Birth Certificate in India. Somehow, she knew that and she accepted that as the birth certificate. My wife had birth certificate but the translation did not have her name. It just said \'baby girl\'. So we took another affidavit from her father. In addition, she asked for original pay stubs, last year\'s W2 and tax returns. We also presented my company\'s financial report.She asked for original letter of employment and current letter of employment. )
9. Closure - She said that everything looks fine, so she could stamp the passports there itself (there came a slight hitch since my wife\'s passport was \'professionally (sarcasm intended!)\' prepared by the authorities with smudged date of validity! So she was concerned if it was altered. But she used her descretion that it was okay. Sigh of relief!). Then she stamped our passports. Told us what we can do as Permanent Residents and that we should be receiving our cards in 8-10 months. She gave us an opportunity to ask us any questions. We asked about last name change after we get the GC. She said they won\'t issue a new GC with name change, but she could do it there itself. If we get new passports, either because of name change or because it expired, we could go back and get the new passport stamped at any time showing the old one.) Then she congratulated us and showed us the way out.
Hopefully, this should provide some information about level of documentation and line of questioning there. I will be happy to entertain any questions about our experience at the interview and I will still be visiting this board for some more time.
Thanks (This board has been like Wilson of movie Castaway to me. So I won\'t leave it so soon!)
-Oink Oink
I and my wife were approved yesterday (10/31/01) at Baltimore INS after the interview and our passports got stamped.
The case is EB2, RIR, India. PD - 04/99, RD - 10/00, ND - 11/00, TD - 05/17/01, ID - 10/31/01.
We were interviewed by Officer F. The line of questioning as I recall now is as follows:
1. Take Oath
2. Show Passport, EAD, I-94 and Drivers License
3. Verify basic information for both (mother\'s name, father\'s name, date of birth, place of birth, date of last entry to US etc.)
4. Verify employment (Name of the company, nature of the job, description of what exactly are the job duties, place of work, previous employment, name of previous company etc.)
5. Verify Qualifications (Highest degree received, the field in which degree was received)
6. Verify marriage (these questions were primarily directed to my wife - date of marriage, place of marriage, proof of legit marriage like common bank accounts, common credit cards statement, common lease, same address on the license etc.)
7. Verify wife\'s status (my wife was on F1 for a year, current employment for my wife, nature of job, letter of employment. Although my wife applied through me, she was asked for current status. Since she is now working, so they did not ask for Affidavit of Support i.e. I-134. But this is my guess).
8. Show originals (we were asked to show some of the originals later in the interview. I did not have birth certificate, so I took two affidavits - one from my father and one from elder brother. Plus I had non-availability certificate. Unfortunately, my non-availability certificate did not have any seals or notarization ... yeah, the original one looked like fake!. But then she asked for my original 10th grade certificate which is also recognized as Birth Certificate in India. Somehow, she knew that and she accepted that as the birth certificate. My wife had birth certificate but the translation did not have her name. It just said \'baby girl\'. So we took another affidavit from her father. In addition, she asked for original pay stubs, last year\'s W2 and tax returns. We also presented my company\'s financial report.She asked for original letter of employment and current letter of employment. )
9. Closure - She said that everything looks fine, so she could stamp the passports there itself (there came a slight hitch since my wife\'s passport was \'professionally (sarcasm intended!)\' prepared by the authorities with smudged date of validity! So she was concerned if it was altered. But she used her descretion that it was okay. Sigh of relief!). Then she stamped our passports. Told us what we can do as Permanent Residents and that we should be receiving our cards in 8-10 months. She gave us an opportunity to ask us any questions. We asked about last name change after we get the GC. She said they won\'t issue a new GC with name change, but she could do it there itself. If we get new passports, either because of name change or because it expired, we could go back and get the new passport stamped at any time showing the old one.) Then she congratulated us and showed us the way out.
Hopefully, this should provide some information about level of documentation and line of questioning there. I will be happy to entertain any questions about our experience at the interview and I will still be visiting this board for some more time.
Thanks (This board has been like Wilson of movie Castaway to me. So I won\'t leave it so soon!)
-Oink Oink
. Unfortunately, the translators did not carry forward her name and simply wrote \'baby girl\'. So we got one notarized affidavit from her father with her name, which the officer accepted. As far as I know, you have to get the translation done by a professional service, but I may be grossly wrong. Mine was brokered through my lawyers, and they did the legwork for getting the translation done. I sent them the originals). She kept the original copy of my NAC with her.