Nevada Adjustment of Status Interview

[jennypomares]

Hi everyone,

My husband and I got married on October 3rd, 2018 and we sent our documents the following month. By the time we got married, we’ve been together for more than 1.5 years.

He’s from Israel and I’m the US Citizen. Our interview was scheduled for September 12, 2019 and although we were confident (now I know we were being naive) that they were gonna recognize a truthful marriage when they see one, we prepared a bunch of evidence and brought everything.. from a letter written by my dad, joint bank accounts, life insurance, car insurance, tons of photos, credit cards together, even our will. We are the kind of people who like to have everything perfectly organized when it comes to money, legal stuff, etc and reading about the interview experiences we wanted to bring everything we could think of so that they didn’t need to send us a request for more evidence.

Our interview was in Las Vegas and the officer that took us was not friendly since the beginning. He never introduced himself or made us feel comfortable. He asked a couple of questions together and then separated us (which of course we were not expecting). He asked many questions and tried to trick me and scare me many times!! He made comments like “Are you sure there was a proposal?” (Of course I’m sure, it was MY proposal!!) and “Do you know we will investigate and if you are found to be lying you will go to jail for 10 years?” He made our interview a total nightmare. With my husband he focused more on asking him why “he lets” me travel so much without him.. as I have about 3 trips outside the country since we are dating that I didn’t do with him, but he missed to focus on the fact that I’ve been traveling my whole life and I just happened to marry a man that won’t stop me from doing the things I love!

After all his attempts, and 1 hour of questioning each, all of our answers still matched, and he took copy of all of our documents, took some photos, and told us we would receive a letter in 3-5 days. He gave us the letter saying we should wait 120 days and online the case just says Interview was completed and case must be reviewed.

It’s been almost 4 months and we still haven’t heard anything. The interview was honestly traumatizing cause we were not at all expecting that, and after seeing how hard he tried to make us fail I wouldn’t be surprised if he sent our case to fraud. I have nothing to fear, they can come to my house anytime they want, my marriage is real and there’s nothing to hide, however the wait seems endless and makes me lose nights of sleep just thinking what we did wrong.

I consulted with a lawyer and she said maybe he’s pushing it until the last minute, or maybe the paperwork got stuck. She says it’s very unlikely that he sent it to fraud given the fact that we answered everything matching and we provided enough evidence.. but she said he might call us for another interview.

Now I’m even worried our case looked “too good to be true” with everything we provided ... is there such a thing?

I really think this whole process is not event about your case, is about your interviewer.

Interview was in Las Vegas, Nevada
Officer: Madrid

Any thoughts would be appreciated. When the 120 days are passed next week, should I contact my congressman? Should I contact them first? This office doesn’t allow InfoPass appointments. There’s nothing I would like more than to file a complaint about the way he treated us, although i know that’s not gonna help my case anyway and he didn’t really do anything outside of the legal window.

Thanks for reading me and for your advice.
Good luck to everybody undergoing a similar situation!

[ihaveit29]

I am sorry to hear what happened. Your lawyer is most likely correct. And yes, it is a good idea to contact your congressman. Best of luck, you should be fine in the end of it all because your marriage is bonafide.

[Maria L]

Hi Jenny, let me start by saying that I'm going through the same thing as you.
I had my interview last year in July, at the Las Vegas office. My officer was a Hawaiian lady (can't remember her name) that started very sweet but as soon as we got comfortable, put the guns out on the table. I'm older than my husband with a few years (he's the US citizen) and she started baby-ing him (if that's correct). I felt like I was taking advantage of an innocent man, even though both of us are in our 20's and since we're together, my husband had a nice professional ascension (went from waiter to HVAC tech). I even helped him get rid of some substance abuse.

She didn't seem too interested into the proof we brought, until I had enough and started showing it myself. She was surprised to see how many joint evidence we had in common.
Anyways, at the end of the interview we were given the 120 days sheet.

After 120 days I made an online inquiry and they told me my background check is still pending. I'm from an European country that's really not among the dangerous ones and my background is clean.
They never came at the house, nor a 2nd interview or RFE was requested.
This whole waiting game to me is unnecessary. We're both working and paying our taxes, but cannot look too far into the future, because we were not given the YES or NO.
Let me know how your case goes. I was unsure whether to contact a lawyer or no at this stage.

[NYC/She]

Sometimes is better to wait with AOS, when people do not know it much before.
Sometimes people have too much evidences and looks “ too good to be true” that why do not believe. All people are different and it’s a hard to said what is a fraud or not!
Wishing everybody good luck!

[throwaway92]

Sorry to hear about your experience. I don’t think having too much evidence is a terrible thing, however it’s common practice for some interviewers to show their authority. Mine was on similar lines but was racist and sexist questions to be frank. And the whole time the interviewer was trying to trick us with very simple questions such as “Why do you cook for your wife?”

Unfortunately we can’t do anything but wait and see with this AOS applications. I hope you get some good news soon.

[sophieblackiss]

It was hard