Hi family,
Hope everyone had a wonderful start to the new week. My husband (USC) and I just had our green card interview last Friday. My PD is May 2, 2016, field office San Jose.
The interview was about 45 minutes long, with a nice 30-something immigration officer. We were never separated. At first, the atmosphere was a little tense, but as we talked with the officer more, we felt more relaxed, and laughed. It was all very polite and appropriate.
The officer started by asking us to show all our ID including passports, driver licences, SSNs, and EAD cards. She looked at them, and made copies. She also swore us in. Then she started with questions to my husband by asking him of my full name, and my parents' names. She then asked him what I do for living, and where I live, and where I had lived before that, and what kind of job I had in my home country. She then switched to me and asked similar questions. She also asked when was the last time I saw my in-laws.
She then started asking questions to both of us - about our relationship. She asked how we met - and we said that we met on Tinder and pointed her to a photo of us at the wedding holding a Tinder sign. She started flipping through our photo album (looked at every photo, and we had about 70), and she said some of her friends also met on Tinder and are now getting married. Then she asked us what kind of wedding ceremony we had, and how many guests we had, and where the wedding was. After that she picked two photos at the album and asked us to describe what the event was and who the people in the photo are (it was us with the extended family).
Then, she went back to looking at my passports. I have three passports (two are old, expired ones) and have had six American visas in total. She asked me to describe when I came to the US, so I told her about all those visas (J1, B1/B2, and F1) and why I came for each of them. She asked me about my J1 visas about the 2 year home residency requirement in more detail (I had one, and I had completed that).
Finally, she went through the list of 'yes/no' questions and made some marks on the application. And that was it! She said something like, "okay, I have everything we need, all looks good", and asked if we want to add any more bona fide materials. We added some insurance copies, tickets for future trips (we have two coming up), and joint statement paperwork.
She asked if we have any international travel coming up, and we said yes, in July, and she said, "Oh that's fine, you should get your approval by that time if not earlier". She gave us papers that said that we had the interview and it's now "held for review", and we will get our results within 4 months. If not, we should schedule an Infopass.
We left with a big relief and super happy! Now just waiting to get the good news!
Best of luck to everyone who has the interview coming up.