Interview Experience at Detroit, MI.
1. Officer was friendly, understanding and empathetic.
2. Initially she asked for passports and then took down one fingerprint and asked us to sign a form.
3. The she asked if I was working for the same company that had filed my GC. I told her that I had switched employers in 11/2004. She asked for the new EVL and compared it with some papers (I believe ETA750).
4. The officer asked me the names, dates of joining - the new, previous and the employer that did my initial H1.
5. Officer asked me to verify my address. I told her that MI address is correct for now, but we are planning to move later in the month because of my new job and gave her new address. She said she is not sure in which office's jurisdiction my new address will be and she is not allowed to interview me if I don't live in her jurisdiction.
I told her that my MI address is still valid, I am getting all my mail in MI and I will be moving after the interview. She said ok and wrote down the same and updated the address in all the forms.
6. Then she looked at documents 10b and 10c (see below).
7. The officer then proceeded to ask the questions given behind I485.
8. Then the officer took 10e, 10f and 10g and then stamped the I551 in the passports.
9. The officer also took down my cell phone no and said that she will contact me, if there is any issue in delivering the plastic card at the new address.
10. Complete list of the documents that the officer looked at is:
a. Passports.
b. Joint bank statement: She had initially asked for house papers on joint name. I told her that we are renting and offered a copy of the lease. She said that she has seen lots of frauds in leases, so she will prefer joint bank statements etc. She took copy of bank statement dated 12/2002 (close to marriage) and 11/2004 of the same bank.
c. Original marriage certificate.
d. EVL.
e. Original AP, EAD cards, I94.
f. Copy of I140 approval.
g. Photos.
The officer retained d, e, f, g and copies of b.
Thanks to all of you ... especially to United Nations and Ginnu.