Adjustment of Status - I-485

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Salt Lake City (with NBC)   / Marriage Base

PD: 07/14/2019
BIo: 08/11/2019  (Fingerprint notice)
End August 2019: fingerprint review completed  (There were no changes in status till December)
12/14/2019  We are ready to schedule your Form I-485  (Status in email: testing & interview)
12/18/2019  We scheduled an interview for your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status.

01/11/2020   we approved your Form I-131, Application for Travel Document,
01/11/2020   We approved your Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization.
01/11/2020   We ordered your new Employment card.  (Note: They just sent one card that works like Employment Card & Advance Parole)
01/15/2020   We mailed your new card your Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, directly to the address you gave us.

01/25/2020   We ordered your new card. (Green Card)
01/28/2020   We approved your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status.
01/28/2020    We approved your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative,
01/29/2020   We mailed your new card your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, directly to the address you gave us.

01/30/2020   The Post Office picked up mail containing your new card. (Green Card)
A couple of days later I had my GC on hand :D

Got to the USCIS office at 8:45 am, my appt was at 9:30 am. After passing the security check went to check in with some nice guy that asked for my passport and Interview notice, he was nice and talked a lot, took a picture of me that is the one that appears on my GC. He told me I was gonna be called for the person that was gonna make the interview.

At 10:00 am the office come out for us and took us to the office. At the beginning he was intimidating. He continues explaining to us how the interview was gonna work. Made the oath. He said: 'IF YOU GUYS DONT SAY THE TRUTH OR GIVE ME SHORT ANSWERS WE ARE GONNA BE IN TROUBLES', he said he liked details.

After he finished those words he became kind of nice, told us to relax. He noticed I had an asylum process before, he said that was another process and he wasn't gonna asked me anything about it. That all questions were gonna be related to our marriage.
He said that he checked our filed before we came in and that everything looked good but he anyways has to make some questions to match what we said with what to put in all USCIS forms.

He asked my husband if he knew that what sponsorship means, he also asked if I had hurt him or try to kill him or something like that  LOL, asked if I paid him or exchange something in order to get married to him. His last question about it was: Do you want to continue with this meeting and be her sponsor?

The officer asked me all the questions that are shown at the end of form I-485 (all of them). Said NO to all of them.

The officer continues saying he was gonna make questions about our relationship. that we had to answer the truth. That we didn't have to decide what he wanted to hear.
- He asked my husband for my DOB, and he asked me for my husband's DOB.
- He asked me how we meet and told my husband to complement what I said.
- Asked me how it was our first date
- Asked us what we have in common
- He asked me what I didn't like about my husband (impatient). then asked him the same thing (unorganized). we joke a little about that. I said I'm not unorganized. He is OCD and kind of crazy, haha the officer smiled, he didn't believe that much haha.
- Ask me about an occasion where I argue with my husband (He said I know all couples are not perfect and sometimes have problems so I would like to hear about one of those occasions): at first, I couldn't think something but them I answer that we sometimes argued about the time my husband is away for his work.
- Ask my husband if he had met my parents. my husband said No. He just knew my mom that is the only one that has a visa. He facetime the rest of the family
- Asked us wedding date
- Where do we live?
- Asked me what my mother-N law and father-N law do for a living?
- Asked me how my mother-N law and father-N law were with me? If I like them?
- If I like the house where we are living?

- He saw Form I-864 asked some questions to my husband about his job. My husband told him he got a new job and we added his job offer and the only paycheck he got from his new company plus the last 2 months of pay stubs from the previous company. He didn't even pay attention to any of that and passed all pages really quickly.

- He asked us to show him proof of all documents where both of us names were shown. This was fun,  I told the officer I let my husband prepared the binder with our documents and as soon as the officer opened the binder we brought him, he laughed and he said he can see my husband has OCD. LOL

For this my husband prepared a binder with all of our documents: (Got at Staples dividers with numbers and main page that come with color and numbers like a menu(15 lines)):

1.- Copy medical examination (sent the sealed in July)
2.- Copy of Form I-64
3.- My husband Federal Income Tax Return and W2's
4.- My husband Letter from Current Employer Verifying Pay rate & Pay Stubs
5.- My husband US Citizenship Status (Birth Certificate, Passport, DL and SSN)
6.- Eligibility  Documentation for Lawful Permanent Resident Status (Put a copy of all receipts and notice of actions from all my process with USCIS (wasn't sure what should it go in there, the officer didn't pay attention to this))
7.- Inmigration related documentation (my EAD, SSN & DL)
8.- Travel Documents used to enter the United States (My I-94, copy of my passport and visa)
9.- Copy of My birth certificate with its translation (took the original with me, he didn't ask me to show it to him)
10. Eligibility based on marriage (Marriage Certificate)
11.- Family supporting letter (sent 4 from my husband's family with the initial file and 2 from friends). For the appointment just bring one new one from mother N law stating we live at the house. NOTE: all of them were notarized.
12.- Bank statements & IRA (from our joint accounts) and a copy of my husband IRA  (retirement) where I am the beneficiary
(Sent bank statements with the file  just added here the current ones).. IRA was a new proof
13. Car title, car insurance & health insurance. all of that with both of our names.
(I am in my husband's health insurance. sent with the original files a copy of it)
14.- Lease /rental agreements from the places we had lived together  (2 different places in 2 different states) (sent a copy of this in original filed)
15.- Travel documents, pictures & other (here we added new pictures, travel tickets and hotel with mother& father N law to Vegas), added copy of my wedding receipt, other trips my husband and me did inside the US, copies of wedding cards we received.
He took out of the binder the new proof we added.

PS. I also took a big backpack with original documents and extra copies just in case.

After this, the officer asked us if we had any questions. we asked how soon we could go out of the country: he said as soon as we have GC on hand. He repeated our case looked good since he checked it before the appointment. That he has to put my info in the system to see if it will show a red flag. ○If everything goes good you would be getting my GC in around one week or two'.

10 minutes after we left the office got an updated in my case saying: Card In Production :D
After that in changed status 2 or 3 more times (Post decision activity, card production again, then card picked by USPS)

Hope this helps. Tried to be as detailed as I could
Let me know if you have any questions.