Adjustment of Status - I-485

Hey Guys We had our interview today, so I will go in depth with what happened and the questions she asked.

Our appointment is at 12:40pm at the nyc federal plaza 26 on the 4th floor. There are multiple floors for different marriage interviews apparently. We arrived at 11;20 went through security got into the 4th floor at 11;30 When we went in the officer check us in and another gave us a ticket. We waited for only 10-15 minutes and then they called us in. We had our interview an hour early. It was not busy at all.

The officer was a young white female around our age probably in late 20s early 30s. She welcomed us with a spiel and she was in a good mood,. *good sign* Then she led us to her office and sat us down.

The first thing she said to us was that our papers looks great the ones we submitted and this will be a short interview and she dose not see anything wrong with it. She asked us if we have a lawyer we said yes but he didn't want to come because he thinks we will pass easily. Then she nodded and said , yeah this will be quick. She started asking for documents from us to prove our marriage. We had few problems here.

the first thing she asked was TAX returns. Which my forgetful husband forgot to file jointly and he didn't bring the properly one. He filed married but separately because I just graduated from school and we are moving to SF , so I am free lancing and working on art with 0 income. She was not happy and told us usually that is a bad sign. We went on explaining we will be filing together this year and he did put married just didn't think I would need to file at all since I make less than 400. I reassured her that I added him on to my home title ( we own our nyc apartment with no mortgage) and we jointly put down a deposit for a new home in SF.

Then she had a problem with my birth certificate. I was born in China and then became Canadian at 8. Chinese people do not have birth certificate sigh. So they one I had was a government document that needed official translation. It is the same document my parents used when I was 6 applying to Canadian citizenship. That thing is old and apparently china has changed to 4 pages instead of 2 now. She said today it is fine but for my usc interview and things I need to update it.

Then she asked for ALL my I-20s ( I had 3 from college and OPT) and she asked for ALL of my passports that I used to enter us ( including expired ones)

The rest we gave her a binder which had
- 4 joint bank accounts with active transactions
- home title + home insurance + health insurance joint ( beneficiary each other)
- new deposit on our new home, joint real estate listing contract
- plane tickets + hotel reservations joint names
- wedding recipients for our big wedding in 2017
- social media posts ( instangram, facebook, texts)
- regular photos many pages 20 roughly and 4 per page.
- also our joint address IDs
- joint bills at t and twc

She only took the most recent two months of each bank , our home title, home insurance joint,
our photos one at wedding ( civil ceremony) and one regular photo of us.
Then she ask me if I want to give anything that says we live together basically.
Make sure you make copies because she took them. If i gave her my actual home title transfer I will have an issue.,

She made copies of my IDS also and then came back to ask us questions