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dinks2006

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My 485 case has just been transferred to Milwaukee. The online case status and the email says

"On November 13, 2006, we transferred your I485 Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status to an office in MILWAUKEE, WI for processing. Our office in MILWAUKEE, WI will send you a written decision as soon as processing is complete. You should receive a notice informing you that your case has been transferred to a local office."

Does processing at local office necessarily mean that there is going to be an interview? Is there any specific reason for them to transfer it to local office?
(Only thing I can think of is that my 485 is fied after my spouse's approval, so they may want to check if our marriage is bonafide though they could have done that with an RFE. Otherwise I don't see any reason for this "special processing" at local office as our records are clean)

thanks
-dinks
 
Yeah, it's pretty much certain that you'll get an interview. I haven't seen anyone whose case was transferred, yet didn't have an interview.

And, yes, it's highly likely that they wanted to verify the marriage, which in USCIS's option can't be done using RFE. My wife and I got married 3 years before we filed our 485s, but we had lived in different states. So, even though USCIS asked for RFE's from both of us to verify marriage, our cases still got transferred to Milwaukee (as most transferred people are, our records are also "clean" and that's the only reason we could guess). The thing is, even the officers in Milwaukee probably didn't know why the cases were transferred either, because not a single question regarding our marriage was asked in both of our interviews.
 
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