AOS Experience (Happy Ending)

[Hopeful2019]

I have to apologize in advance for the long post.
I've been a silent reader ever since I started this process. I want to thank everybody for helping me without even knowing.
I came on a B1/B2 visa on 06/28/2018 and got married with my now husband on October 2018. We had a relationship for like 2 years before that date.
My PD was February 28 2019 and did my biometrics on March 25 2019 and after that Nothing, nothing at all, no updates to show my fingerprints were taken, no EAD (I never got it) Nothing. I can't explain you the anxiety I dealt with for pretty much the whole year lol. I cried, I prayed, I doubted (Did they take my fingerprints right?, did they storage my case and forgot about it? Am I being punish for not going back to my country after getting married?) I cannot explain it. The wait is hard, not being able to work, drive is hard. Especially living in Pennsylvania when you necessarily have to have a car, so I had to depend on my husband to drive me everywhere.

Anyway, the Lord blessed me the morning of 08/06 when my status went from "Fingerprints fee accepted" to "your case is ready to be scheduled.." I was soo happy and grateful, for a couple of hours till I saw a lot of my fellow forum mates having that same status stuck for 3,4 months and sometimes even more. But again, Thanks God it changed on 08/09 to "We scheduled an interview.." the date of the interview was 09/19 and it went the best way possible (ask me if you want me to explain the whole experience and questions asked) that same day at 12:00am the status changed to "Your card is on production" Today (09/25/2019) it changed to "card has been mailed" and then gave me the tracking number, I am now just waiting to have that precious piece of paper in my hand that I will conveniently receive for my birthday
My interview was held at Philadelphia.
I wish everybody a fast, smooth and easy process. Trust and pray to God if you believe in Him Because me, personally, I own everything to the Lord and if this chapter is over and with a happy ending is all because of him, not anything I've done nor did I deserve it. I will keep praying for all of you and your cases ❤️

[M.Alvarez]

Congratulations !!!!

[RiverZ]

Congrats!! and please share your interview experience!

[Hopeful2019]

Thank you very much!
The interview was set to be at 10am but we were called in around 11:30am
We went in (my husband, the lawyer and me)
The IO (a man) asked us to take a sit and said He needed to take a picture of me and take the fingerprints for both of my index fingers. After that he went thru the forms to make sure everything was correct and asked me like 20 Yes/No questions
(One of the questions was if I've ever been involved in a laundering money business to which I obviously responded No and then he asked me If I knew what laundering money means and I said yes and he asked me to explain and I did????????♀️ He said good answer)

After that was finished, He said he wanted to know about our relationship but that it is not like an interrogatory just a normal conversation and that anybody could answer (which was perfect)
So it was pretty much like explaining our whole love story to a friend, but I needed to tell the questions we were asked I would say:

- When and where did you guys met?
- Who talked to who first? (We met online)
- How much did we talked after that?
- How long after did we start the relationship?
- When did we meet face to face for the first time?
- For how long did my husband stay in my country when he went to visit the first time?
- For how long did I stay when I came to visit him?
- He said that I've come to the United Stated plenty of times (This one was not a question but more like an affirmation)
- When did I last entered the US?
- When did we decided to get married?
- Who proposed?
- When and where did we get married?
- Who attended the wedding?
- What did we do after the wedding?
- Did we have a honeymoon, where?
- How is a day in the life of my husband?
- What kind of car does he drives?

After that he went thru the photos album (we brought a wedding album and a "first year together" album)
Then he explained me how I would receive a conditional green card since we have been married for less than 2 years, he also said that on his side it was approved but that he still had to get his supervisor's approval. And then we left.

Notes:
-It might seem like a lot of questions but the whole interview lasted like 20 minutes.
- We have suuuper simple (yet romantic in my opinion) wedding, it was at a park and there were 4 guesses ???? (My parents, my husband's best friend and his wife) and after that we went to a mexican restaurant to eat (that was our reception) I loved it because that's exactly what we wanted, eventually we will have a big ceremony but my point is that the wedding itself is not the proof of your marriage so don't feel scared it you didn't have the biggest wedding ever.
- Get on the IO's attitude. If he's strict and serious don't try to make jokes.
-The IO checked in the system about my EAD and said that there is a backlog and they are taking a little more than usual.
- My husband was married before (and he got his citizenship thru that marriage) The IO didn't asked much about that marriage, He just asked when did it finalize, but we were super ready to prove that that marriage was a bona fide one as well.

Once again, I apologize for the long post, I am telling all I would've wanted to know If I was on the other side, so if you have any more questions, ask away.

[RiverZ]

Awesome! Congratulations and thank you for sharing your experience!

[Hopeful2019]

Thank you and all the best wishes for your upcoming interview