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My husband and I had our interview this morning and I made this account in the hopes that retelling the experience would ease the knot that is still in my stomach. Our interview was in the Fairfax office; we filed for AoS in September 2017.
Our officer was neither nice nor rude, but he did say several times that he was new and did not have access to all the technology he needed (asked me to go to another office to take my fingerprints and had to go elsewhere to scan my passport). He started by saying we were going to go over my green card application. He asked me a couple of questions about my study abroad and seemed to be confused by my answers, started furiously taking notes about everything I was saying. He asked my husband a couple of questions about how we had met, when, etc. Then he asked me my place of birth. I responded and he went, "but you wrote down Lima in your application." I said I absolutely did not and could not have since I've been to Peru exactly zero times. I was born in a different country than the one I claim citizenship in, so I thought maybe this had something to do with his confusion, but no, it was then that he realized HE HAD BEEN LOOKING AT THE WRONG FILE THE WHOLE TIME! Once this realization hit him, he interjected by laughing and saying things like "this makes more sense!" "This is my first interview in like three weeks," and honestly seemed simply amused at his mistake. We had been being interviewed by this guy for at least 20 minutes already so I did not see why he was so tickled, but I was thankful that he noticed his grave mistake and we were able to correct it and move on.
He asked for some more of our documents, asked my husband if he had ever met my parents, looked at our pictures. Then said that everything looked right but that he needed to conduct some other security checks before he could approve our case and that I should have notice, and hopefully a new green card, in two weeks.
Once I got home I checked my case status online and it says "your new card is being produced." Does this mean that our application was approved? I've read some answers somewhere claiming that the card being produced status comes prior to the "approved" status, and I'm wondering if it's okay to get excited about or if there's still a chance it won't be approved even after the card has been sent to production.
Thanks for reading!
Our officer was neither nice nor rude, but he did say several times that he was new and did not have access to all the technology he needed (asked me to go to another office to take my fingerprints and had to go elsewhere to scan my passport). He started by saying we were going to go over my green card application. He asked me a couple of questions about my study abroad and seemed to be confused by my answers, started furiously taking notes about everything I was saying. He asked my husband a couple of questions about how we had met, when, etc. Then he asked me my place of birth. I responded and he went, "but you wrote down Lima in your application." I said I absolutely did not and could not have since I've been to Peru exactly zero times. I was born in a different country than the one I claim citizenship in, so I thought maybe this had something to do with his confusion, but no, it was then that he realized HE HAD BEEN LOOKING AT THE WRONG FILE THE WHOLE TIME! Once this realization hit him, he interjected by laughing and saying things like "this makes more sense!" "This is my first interview in like three weeks," and honestly seemed simply amused at his mistake. We had been being interviewed by this guy for at least 20 minutes already so I did not see why he was so tickled, but I was thankful that he noticed his grave mistake and we were able to correct it and move on.
He asked for some more of our documents, asked my husband if he had ever met my parents, looked at our pictures. Then said that everything looked right but that he needed to conduct some other security checks before he could approve our case and that I should have notice, and hopefully a new green card, in two weeks.
Once I got home I checked my case status online and it says "your new card is being produced." Does this mean that our application was approved? I've read some answers somewhere claiming that the card being produced status comes prior to the "approved" status, and I'm wondering if it's okay to get excited about or if there's still a chance it won't be approved even after the card has been sent to production.
Thanks for reading!
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