Tweet
So... we went for our interview today and for some reason I don't feel good about it.
I submitted my sealed i-693 envelope with my application in January but the IO asked me for it again. When we told him we had already submitted, he was surprised. He checked the application again and finally found it. Then he said my medicals said I tested positive for mumps, rubella and varicella and at the end of the interview, I'd have to go back to get retested/get a letter from the clinic saying I'm cleared. He issued us an rfe after the interview.
Now, our interview proper:
Background information: I was over-prepared and even had a checklist for all our supporting documents. This officer just asked us to:
1. Tell him about our love life and timeline from when we met till marriage, and what plans we had for the future.
2. After this, he asked for all documents that had both of our names. This threw me off balance as I had to pick several documents from the sections I had marked as "evidence of cohabitation", comingling, etc.
3. He kept asking random questions about our love-story timeline. Like how we met, who proposed, why my spouse's parents weren't present at the wedding, if we wanted kids, if either of us had spoken to each other's family, etc.
4. He asked if we had pictures. I gave him the photos we had printed. About 45 pictures (each picture is a collage of 4 photos so that's 4 x 45 pictures). He kept looking at the pictures while we talked about our love story and plans for the future.
5. He asked random questions about a few pictures. E.g. I see you in a hospital in here, was it during childbirth? Do you have kids together? We said no, it was me having surgery. Then a picture of us carrying high-grade military assault rifles lol. It was just a laser tag event we went to.
6. He kept all the photos and documents and typed for ages.
Now, this is about to get interesting... This officer said: I'll be approving your case, but I can't do so until you bring back an updated medical or letter like I said earlier.
He said: congratulations in advance, told us how to remove conditions in 2 years, how to get citizenship in 3, gave us a white paper that explained the steps. He also told me how to get my ssn card updated from "employment authorization only" to something permanent and how to change my Driver's license from temporary to permanent with my green card.
From here, we just talked about life. How he wants to relocate to Florida, Oklahoma tornadoes, Florida hurricanes, etc.
Finally, he said if we could get the medical thingy sent back to him before the end of the day, he'd approve our case today and we'd get my GC in 2-4 weeks. He took us to a window and told us to drop it in the box there or if we couldn't, to mail it to uscis.
We rushed to the medical center. We were told there that the officer didn't know how to read medical results. They said testing positive for the those things were a good sign and it meant I didn't need any vaccines and I was clear (please look at your i693 reports under mumps, rubella and varicella to see what I mean). They wrote a letter explaining this and concluded with something like "this applicant is cleared, etc."
We took this letter along with the rfe he gave us during the interview and took it back to the interview place. We dropped it in the box and waited to see if anyone would come for it. Finally, somebody came, opened the envelope, read it for a bit and took it off to the IO's office. We left.
My spouse has told everybody that we were approved, my in-laws even visited us today to congratulate us. I sit here expecting approval emails or something but nothing came. I'm slightly disappointed and don't know what to do.
I'm thinking of different worst case scenarios lol. I'm a worrier so I'm just here wondering. Here's my thing... I had prepared and did a very deep self-criticism of our case and expected grilling from the IO. So... seeing our interview being relatively easy/short kinda threw me off.
People are still congratulating us lol, I feel weird. I guess I'll just wait
I submitted my sealed i-693 envelope with my application in January but the IO asked me for it again. When we told him we had already submitted, he was surprised. He checked the application again and finally found it. Then he said my medicals said I tested positive for mumps, rubella and varicella and at the end of the interview, I'd have to go back to get retested/get a letter from the clinic saying I'm cleared. He issued us an rfe after the interview.
Now, our interview proper:
Background information: I was over-prepared and even had a checklist for all our supporting documents. This officer just asked us to:
1. Tell him about our love life and timeline from when we met till marriage, and what plans we had for the future.
2. After this, he asked for all documents that had both of our names. This threw me off balance as I had to pick several documents from the sections I had marked as "evidence of cohabitation", comingling, etc.
3. He kept asking random questions about our love-story timeline. Like how we met, who proposed, why my spouse's parents weren't present at the wedding, if we wanted kids, if either of us had spoken to each other's family, etc.
4. He asked if we had pictures. I gave him the photos we had printed. About 45 pictures (each picture is a collage of 4 photos so that's 4 x 45 pictures). He kept looking at the pictures while we talked about our love story and plans for the future.
5. He asked random questions about a few pictures. E.g. I see you in a hospital in here, was it during childbirth? Do you have kids together? We said no, it was me having surgery. Then a picture of us carrying high-grade military assault rifles lol. It was just a laser tag event we went to.
6. He kept all the photos and documents and typed for ages.
Now, this is about to get interesting... This officer said: I'll be approving your case, but I can't do so until you bring back an updated medical or letter like I said earlier.
He said: congratulations in advance, told us how to remove conditions in 2 years, how to get citizenship in 3, gave us a white paper that explained the steps. He also told me how to get my ssn card updated from "employment authorization only" to something permanent and how to change my Driver's license from temporary to permanent with my green card.
From here, we just talked about life. How he wants to relocate to Florida, Oklahoma tornadoes, Florida hurricanes, etc.
Finally, he said if we could get the medical thingy sent back to him before the end of the day, he'd approve our case today and we'd get my GC in 2-4 weeks. He took us to a window and told us to drop it in the box there or if we couldn't, to mail it to uscis.
We rushed to the medical center. We were told there that the officer didn't know how to read medical results. They said testing positive for the those things were a good sign and it meant I didn't need any vaccines and I was clear (please look at your i693 reports under mumps, rubella and varicella to see what I mean). They wrote a letter explaining this and concluded with something like "this applicant is cleared, etc."
We took this letter along with the rfe he gave us during the interview and took it back to the interview place. We dropped it in the box and waited to see if anyone would come for it. Finally, somebody came, opened the envelope, read it for a bit and took it off to the IO's office. We left.
My spouse has told everybody that we were approved, my in-laws even visited us today to congratulate us. I sit here expecting approval emails or something but nothing came. I'm slightly disappointed and don't know what to do.
I'm thinking of different worst case scenarios lol. I'm a worrier so I'm just here wondering. Here's my thing... I had prepared and did a very deep self-criticism of our case and expected grilling from the IO. So... seeing our interview being relatively easy/short kinda threw me off.
People are still congratulating us lol, I feel weird. I guess I'll just wait
Comment