Adjustment of Status - I-485

Hello guys,
We want to share our interview experience, we read a lot of yours before going to ours and it helped us a lot. Hopefully this will help some of you. We didn’t use a lawyer for our interview.

Timeline:
09/24/2019: Priority day
12/23/2019: Interview notice
01/09/2019: New card is being produced
01/10/2020: EAD got approved
01/16/2020: EAD delivered
01/27/2020: Interview day
01/28/2020: New card is being produced

We had our interview yesterday at federal plaza NY.
We had to wait 2 hours to get called. It lasted about 45min. At the end she gave us 2 papers one of our affidavit of support, and the other one saying “your case is being held for review”. She told us that after two years we have to renew the green card, because our marriage was less than two years. So I guess that was her way to say you guys will be approved.

Our marriage is genuine but we got very nervous during the interview. We had a very rude interviewer. We both are in our early twenties.
At first she only asked questions to my husband (USC). Actually, most of the questions were directed to him. She didn’t even let him finish answering and she was already asking him a different question. Although we both were almost shaking we answered everything correct except some details, we got confused with years (we are in 2020 and we thought we were in 2019 lol, also I got confused with the birthday of my own mother lol)

She asked first how we met, when we got romantically involved. She wanted to know the dates, when we got married, where, who was present, if you had a honeymoon, if we traveled outside or to the states, the name of our partner and birthday.
Our first advice is, don’t give details, they don’t care, answer straight forward to the question.
She also asked us the phone number of our partner and thank god we knew that. Our background, if we got passport if We traveled outside the country, when, where, why, and for how long, also which year.
We both know each other by heart. So you better know each other very well.
She asked about siblings, how many, names, age, where they live, and if someone is in school, the name of the school (I also didn’t know that detail, but I was honest and I said that I don’t know that). Advice here, be honest, don’t lie because they write everything. While she was asking a question sometimes she would write something. Both of you should know everything from the forms I-130 and I-485. She put check if you answer is correct in every question. I remember she wrote something when I messed up the birthday of my mother.
At the end she asked the yes and no questions (don’t lie, if you worked without authorization that’s okay, they forgive that. I mean come on, everybody worked without authorization) also, while she was doing that she suddenly asked a different question, or repeat some questions like, where my husband lived before or the name of his parents, or another details.

Oh guys, as soon as we got out of that room we hugged for like a whole min. We didn’t care if someone was watching us. We both were super scared and in shock after that interview. We were shaking. But because she was very rude.
We are telling you this because it’s okay if you get nervous. Because this process is very important for you and your partner. It’s your future. Your partner should be involved and care like you do.

Don’t wait until too late to have your joint documents, even without ssn you can get a joint debit card, she was very detailed wi th our statements banks, we are married only 6 months, but we only use our joint account since we got it. we put everything there, our job has a direct deposit to that account.

We both wish you the best, every case is different. If there is a delay in your case, don’t stress, sooner or later you will get your documents, think in a way that it is in the process now. We will pray for you guys. Sending you lots of peace and love.

If you guys have questions we will answer them