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Hi everyone,
I am sharing my timeline and interview experience here hopefully it helps someone as I have read other people's story here and it helped me as well. THIS IS JUST MY STORY AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS ANY LEGAL COUNSEL.
My timeline:
Married to LPR in May 2017
Feb 1 2018. Filed 130/130A
June 3 2019 Filed 485/765
June 25 2019 Biometrics
July 25 2019 EAD expedition via USCIS phone call
July 30 2019 request for evidence for EAD
August 1 2019 evidence received by USCIS
Aug 5/6 2019 got the 2 Senators in my area involved through phone
Aug 8 2019 request for initial evidence for 485 requested (latest tax return of my wife)
Aug 14 2019 USCIS received evidence to 485
NO NEWS FOR MY EXPEDITE 765, called the 2 Senator's office again
Aug 12 2019 130 approval notice received
Aug 29 2019 Interview scheduled for 485
Sept 2 Courtesy letter for I-693, Medical
Sept 5 2019 Interview notice received
Sept 6 2019 New card being produced for EAD
Sept 12 EAD received
Sept 16 SSN received
Oct 10 Interview attended and approved on the spot for 10 years GC
Oct 10 New card being produced
Interview experience:
So, we had my interview yesterday at Kansas City FO for 8:15am but we got to FO at 7:48am. Checked in and waited patiently until I heard my name called by the IO at 8:13am. No smile, nothing just straight face but myself and my wife weren't bothered at all. Anyways we smiled and greeted him politely while we struggled with the TONS of documents including our heavy wedding album, souvenirs from our wedding etc. The IO led us to his office still not smiling only to ask if I was my wife's attorney (I guess from the way I dressed, my shirt with nice tie and inner suit jacket just as I donned them 2 years ago on our wedding day...lol). Anyways, we were sworn in and ask to seat and at this point the IO smile and asked if we understand and speaks English...lol. We responsed yes. He said fine let's proceed. He requested our ids and my passport being the applicant. We supplied all of that and my wife added her green card as well. He brought out my file and smile again saying this is a straightforward case and he's gonna run me through the Form 485 again and just ask how we met and we will be done.
After running through the 485 including the yes/no questions (though he just randomly asked the yes/no questions which I guess are the very important ones), he updated my employment status since I now have EAD which he asked to see my EAD card. He was observing my interaction with my wife at the same time I didn't know this until the end of interview when he mentioned it. Well, he asked how we met and I looked at my wife, we both laughed cos we've been through a lot together. I asked if I can answer his question with some pictures which he agrees to. He was busy with his computer at this time, so I brought out some old pictures myself, wife and two other friends as far back as 2006 during our days in Medical school in Nigeria. We started as friends then to study partners and eventually we started dating in 2011 and I proposed in an unconventional way (not with ring but with a Bible and the question if my wife was gonna marry me then written in the front page of the Bible. We had the Bible with us at the interview as well) in 2014 and my wife cut in to complete the story of how she didn't know I wrote a marriage proposal in the Bible she thought it was just a gift for her induction into medical profession. Anyways she replied too in an unconventional way after two weeks of my proposal and we decided to get married in 2017. At this point the IO burst into laughter uncontrollably cos he sees both of as weirdo but unique in our style...lol. He finally checked on the spot to know if there's availability of visa for me since my wife is a GC holder and not yet a USC and at the same time ran background check again. All of which comes out positive. He ran through my file with him again and requested for my I-693, medical report which I gladly gave the sealed medical report. He opened and said all set. I'm approving your 10 years green card and you should have it in less than 3weeks. Any question for me? I insisted he view our wedding album cos it's so heavy and we brought it for him to view, he smiled and obliged us. We viewed the album together and discussed about Africa, my parents and Inlaws. He asked when are we bringing them to US and he also told me about how I can become a US Citizen. He encourages us not to get into any trouble and focus on why we are here.
We went prepared with bunch of documents but we didn't need any except the medical report I submitted and evidence of my change of name he just view and asked why I changed my last name which I told him I had changed the last name even before coming to the US as shown in my evidence and the change of name was necessary because I preferred my Father's name to the name I don't even know the bearer. Then we are done.
We appreciated him and thanked him for his time and service.
I hope this helps and good luck to you all!
I am sharing my timeline and interview experience here hopefully it helps someone as I have read other people's story here and it helped me as well. THIS IS JUST MY STORY AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS ANY LEGAL COUNSEL.
My timeline:
Married to LPR in May 2017
Feb 1 2018. Filed 130/130A
June 3 2019 Filed 485/765
June 25 2019 Biometrics
July 25 2019 EAD expedition via USCIS phone call
July 30 2019 request for evidence for EAD
August 1 2019 evidence received by USCIS
Aug 5/6 2019 got the 2 Senators in my area involved through phone
Aug 8 2019 request for initial evidence for 485 requested (latest tax return of my wife)
Aug 14 2019 USCIS received evidence to 485
NO NEWS FOR MY EXPEDITE 765, called the 2 Senator's office again
Aug 12 2019 130 approval notice received
Aug 29 2019 Interview scheduled for 485
Sept 2 Courtesy letter for I-693, Medical
Sept 5 2019 Interview notice received
Sept 6 2019 New card being produced for EAD
Sept 12 EAD received
Sept 16 SSN received
Oct 10 Interview attended and approved on the spot for 10 years GC
Oct 10 New card being produced
Interview experience:
So, we had my interview yesterday at Kansas City FO for 8:15am but we got to FO at 7:48am. Checked in and waited patiently until I heard my name called by the IO at 8:13am. No smile, nothing just straight face but myself and my wife weren't bothered at all. Anyways we smiled and greeted him politely while we struggled with the TONS of documents including our heavy wedding album, souvenirs from our wedding etc. The IO led us to his office still not smiling only to ask if I was my wife's attorney (I guess from the way I dressed, my shirt with nice tie and inner suit jacket just as I donned them 2 years ago on our wedding day...lol). Anyways, we were sworn in and ask to seat and at this point the IO smile and asked if we understand and speaks English...lol. We responsed yes. He said fine let's proceed. He requested our ids and my passport being the applicant. We supplied all of that and my wife added her green card as well. He brought out my file and smile again saying this is a straightforward case and he's gonna run me through the Form 485 again and just ask how we met and we will be done.
After running through the 485 including the yes/no questions (though he just randomly asked the yes/no questions which I guess are the very important ones), he updated my employment status since I now have EAD which he asked to see my EAD card. He was observing my interaction with my wife at the same time I didn't know this until the end of interview when he mentioned it. Well, he asked how we met and I looked at my wife, we both laughed cos we've been through a lot together. I asked if I can answer his question with some pictures which he agrees to. He was busy with his computer at this time, so I brought out some old pictures myself, wife and two other friends as far back as 2006 during our days in Medical school in Nigeria. We started as friends then to study partners and eventually we started dating in 2011 and I proposed in an unconventional way (not with ring but with a Bible and the question if my wife was gonna marry me then written in the front page of the Bible. We had the Bible with us at the interview as well) in 2014 and my wife cut in to complete the story of how she didn't know I wrote a marriage proposal in the Bible she thought it was just a gift for her induction into medical profession. Anyways she replied too in an unconventional way after two weeks of my proposal and we decided to get married in 2017. At this point the IO burst into laughter uncontrollably cos he sees both of as weirdo but unique in our style...lol. He finally checked on the spot to know if there's availability of visa for me since my wife is a GC holder and not yet a USC and at the same time ran background check again. All of which comes out positive. He ran through my file with him again and requested for my I-693, medical report which I gladly gave the sealed medical report. He opened and said all set. I'm approving your 10 years green card and you should have it in less than 3weeks. Any question for me? I insisted he view our wedding album cos it's so heavy and we brought it for him to view, he smiled and obliged us. We viewed the album together and discussed about Africa, my parents and Inlaws. He asked when are we bringing them to US and he also told me about how I can become a US Citizen. He encourages us not to get into any trouble and focus on why we are here.
We went prepared with bunch of documents but we didn't need any except the medical report I submitted and evidence of my change of name he just view and asked why I changed my last name which I told him I had changed the last name even before coming to the US as shown in my evidence and the change of name was necessary because I preferred my Father's name to the name I don't even know the bearer. Then we are done.
We appreciated him and thanked him for his time and service.
I hope this helps and good luck to you all!
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