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Mr. Green

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This is from my interview appointment letter:

REASON FOR INTERVIEW: Both petitioner and beneficiary must attend the interview.

For the I-485 stage, I'm the petitioner is myself and my wife is the beneficiary, correct? I'm assuming my employer has nothing to do with the interview. Is that correct?

My lawyer asked me to have an updated employment letter and evidence that our marriage is legitimate. He didn't mention anything about bringing any other documents. Is that normal? I thought I should bring every immigration document I have!

Experts, your opinion is appreciated!
 
Mr. Green said:
For the I-485 stage, I'm the petitioner is myself and my wife is the beneficiary, correct? I'm assuming my employer has nothing to do with the interview. Is that correct?
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The statement they put in that letter is more geared towards family based petitions. The local offices get very few (relatively speaking) employment based cases, so they only have this letter drafted for the family based cases.

The petitioner is your company. You are the beneficiary. Your wife is a dependant. Your company does not need to appear at the interview, that's what the updated employment letter is for. You should be bringing more than just that though. I brought my passport, EAD, AP, I-94, DL, copies of the LC, I-140, and I-485, and pretty much everything I had. The officer can ask you anything about your case.
 
I disagree with curiousGeorge on one point: Your company is the petitioner only for your I-140. The I-485 applications are yours and only yours. You're the petitioner and your wife is the beneficiary. It has nothing to do with the company.

About interview documents, don't pay much attention to what your lawyer said. Just bring whatever--WHATEVER--relavent documents with you. I really think this is a no-brainer. The extra documents won't break your back, but if you don't have them when the officer asks for them, then you will break your heart. So, no need to ask; just bring EVERYTHING.
 
Madison 04,

What was the reason for your interview? Why wasn't your spouse scheduled for the interview at the same time?

Any lessons learned from your interview would be appreciated!



Madison04 said:
I disagree with curiousGeorge on one point: Your company is the petitioner only for your I-140. The I-485 applications are yours and only yours. You're the petitioner and your wife is the beneficiary. It has nothing to do with the company.

About interview documents, don't pay much attention to what your lawyer said. Just bring whatever--WHATEVER--relavent documents with you. I really think this is a no-brainer. The extra documents won't break your back, but if you don't have them when the officer asks for them, then you will break your heart. So, no need to ask; just bring EVERYTHING.
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No reason for the interview. At least nothing that I'm aware of. They simply transferred our cases to the local office. I suspect that it might be due to the fact that my wife and I lived in different states and therefore they wanted to verify the marriage, but the local officers didn't actually ask anything about it during the interview. So, I guess I was just screwed.

My interview wasn't scheduled. Because I'm from a retrogressed country, if I couldn't get the thing done before 10/1/05 I would have had to wait for several years for a visa number. So, I walked into the local office and pushed for an "on-site" interview. My wife couldn't make it because (1) she was a thousand miles away, and (2) her background check was still pending. So, my wife had her officially scheduled interview later, but due to her pending background check as well as the retrogression, she wasn't approved.

Experience? Well, after these two interviews, I would say they are mostly formalities. Nothing to fear about. The officers just ask some common sense questions and collect some documents. Unless your cases have some unusual stuff, you really don't have to worry about anything. Really. Just try to bring whatever documents you think might be useful and you're done! --Employment letters, financial proofs, tax returns, marriage license, birth certificate, rental leases or anything that shows you and your wife having common properties, photos, application receipts, and copies of everything that you ever submitted to USCIS... You name it. If you have nothing to hide, the interview will simply be a 15-30 minutes chat with a (most likely) nice guy.

Good luck!
 
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