Adjustment of Status - I-485

09/15/2015 Priority Date (I-765, I-130, I485 sent)
09/15/2015 Application received same date (online confirmation)
09/15/2015 We received Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization(online confirmation)
09/17/2015 Receipt Notice in Mail for I-130
09/17/2015 We accepted the fingerprint fee for your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent
                      Residence or to Adjust Status. Our National Benefits Center location is working on your
                      case.
09/18/2015 Receipt Notice in Mail for Form I-765
09/25/2015 Notice for Fingerprint appointment
10/02/2015 We mailed a request for initial evidence for your Form I-485, Application to Register
                      Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status [We filed using an older version of the form,
                      they also claimed we missed a signature on the form]
10/16/2015 Biometric fingerprint taken
10/19/2015 We received your response to our Request for Evidence for your Form I-485,
                      Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status. Our National Benefits
                      Center office is working on your case again.
11/13/2015 We ordered your new card (EAD card)
11/16/2015 We approved your Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization .
11/18/2015 We mailed your new card to the address you gave us.
11/23/2015, the Post Office delivered your new card for Receipt Number
12/01/2015 We scheduled you for your interview and mailed you an interview notice.
12/01/2015 We are ready to schedule your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent
                      Residence or to Adjust Status, for an interview for 01/06/2015
01/06/2016 Interview date
01/08/2016 we approved your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence

Same sex marriage. I am 28 years old male from Mauritius and my partner is 59 from Puerto Rico. We have been living together for 15 months and we got married in June 25th 2015. I came here on F1 VISA back in 2007. I was on OPT for 2.5 years after graduation and then on H1B.

Interview Questions:
We had a lawyer with us, the interviewer and his assistant.
The whole interview process took about 1 hour and the session was taped.
We were separated during the interview.

He asked us for our ID and verified our names, country of birth and age. Where do I work? Where does my partner work? Tell me about when you guys met? where? And what did you do the first day? Who proposed to whom and when? Why did you decide to get married? When did I move in with my partner? Where I lived when we first met? Had he been to my place before? He cross checked my answer with my partners when asked what kind of apartment we lived in. Do we have our relationship public on Facebook? (i did not) He then asked: why not? (i replied i had my status as married only but did not display partners name) He asked me to prove it. I whipped out my phone and showed him. He verified my marital status and noticed my taste of music in my profile and asked my partner if he knew what my taste of music was.

He did not approve us on the spot. When asked why by my lawyer he said he was not going to provide a reason. He did not mention if he needed more information or evidence from me. He did not provide an ETA. He did not say he was going to need more time to review my case to make a decision. His whole response to my lawyer was - 'how many interview cases have you gone to that provided you with an approval at the end of the interview? I will proceed with the case and do whatever I have to do'

My bona-fide documents I brought along:
1) Email conversation when we first met
2) Report from ATT showing our call history and texts over the past 15 months (segments)
3) Joint Bank Account Statements (with credit card bills, rent to landlord, groceries, peco)
4) Peco Bill under my name but at same address
5) Pics of our wedding and selfies together and holiday/wedding cards. pics of food my partner prepared for us (he's a cook)
6) Online Receipts of things we bought for the house and for each other
7) Mails that came in my name, his name or both under same address
8) Photos/emails of random stuff we did together. All photos were taken with our phones
9) Insurance information and his name as the beneficiary in case something were to happen to me

At the interview, he did not really care how much documentation I brought to him. He barely looked at them. He said it was not necessary to need to look at the wedding cards and mails at our address.
He was more interested in seeing the authenticity in how we answered the question, how composed we were at the interview. These people are good at their job and they have seen enough to know when someone is lying or not. I could tell that the same sex nature of our marriage, our huge age gap, my presumed sudden/spontaneous switch from straight to gay lifestyle, and my masculine 'straight' aura made him skeptical about the legitimacy of our union. But by the end of the interview, he must have realized that love has no gender, no race, no age.