Maria L
Jan 27, 2022
Marriage Green Card Case Approved! (Queens, NYC)
Hi everyone, I filed my case last April 2021 and I had an interview yesterday afternoon.
(F-1 to permanent resident)
We met in 2015 as friends in college and we started dating in 2018. We got married June 2019, so the interview date was over than 2 years of our wedding date.
We thought the interview didn’t go well because the officer was a bit scary and we were nervous. So we gave him wrong answers (mostly my spouse;citizen)
I could see my wife was so nervous so I just tapped her shoulder and told her “it’s okay” even though I know she gave him wrong andswers.
The officer just moved on to next questions and he didn’t ask me have you ever questions, he only asked “have you been arrested?” and I said no.
Here is the list of the questions we were asked
To citizen:
- Full name
- Full address
- Current work and position
- Have you met spouse’s parents?
- their names
- where do they live?
- where your spouse was born?
- spouse dob
- spouse previous work and position
To application:
- Full name
- Full Address
- Spouse name
- spouse dob
- spouse salary
- spouse parents’ name
- spouse parents’ occupation
- where do they live?
- how much money that our household made last year?
- How my spouse got permanent residentship and when did she gained citizenship?
And he asked us any additional evidence or proof of our relationship, so I handed him a bunch of documentations each by each as telling him what kind of evidence it is.
- Lease Agreement
- Renter’s insurance
- Con-ed bill
- Wedding ceremony officiant contract
- 2020 Tax joint filing
- Joint bank account (first 3 months and past 12 months)
- Amazon Prime (screenshot)
- Airplane tickets that we traveled together
- 100 photos (he let us choose 3 photos and he took it for the record)
- Wedding ceremony album.
And he asked one more time after he quickly went through the evidence “anything elese?”
I brought 2 letters from our best friends as affidavit letter of support and I handed the letters to him
“I know I don’t have to submit affidavit letters of support, however, it’s been over 2 years of our marriage started so I thought it might help for the process. Here are 2 letters from our best friends”
And he said something but I couldn’t hear it because of the mask and the plexi glass between him and us.
He said “well this is it, I’m gonna review it from now, we might bring you guys back for the stoke interview, or request more documentations, good luck”
And we said thank you for your time.
An hour after the interview, my gut told me to check the status and I chekced, boom! the status changed to “new card is being produced” and 30 mins ago, it changed to “case was approved”
Don’t lose hope y’all. Please bring as many evidence as you can. Be polite to officers. You’ll get a good result!
They treat same-sex marriage as the same as heterosexual marraige, so chin up and be proud, my LGBTQIA people!
IR-1/CR-1
U.S. citizen filing for a spouse
Total Days: 292 days
Case
2021-04-16
2022-02-02
I-485
292 Days
National Benefits Center: I-485
Timeline Map
2021-04-16
I-485
Submission to USCIS
2021-06-21
I-485
D+66
Request for Evidence(RFE) from USCIS
2021-07-08
I-485
D+83
Response to RFE
2021-07-20
I-485
D+95
Biometrics, i.e. fingerprint and photo
2021-12-22
I-485
D+250
Interview
2022-02-02
I-485
D+292
Decision (Approval or Denial)
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Maria LJan 27, 2022
Lawfully messed up the time line. Here is the correct time line
April 16 2021 - case received
May 11 2021 - finger print fee was received
June 21 2021 - RFE request
July 08 2021 - RFE response received
July 20 2021 - Fingerprints were taken
Aug 20 2021 - Case is ready to be scheduled for an interview
Dec 22 2021 - Interview was scheduled
Jan 26 2022 - Interview
Jan 26 2022 - New card is being produced
Jan 27 2022 - Case was approved
Victory VictoryJan 27, 2022
Congratulations
God is in controlJan 27, 2022
o wow congratulations 🎉
Preet sJan 27, 2022
Maria @i had interview yesterday officer give us approved letter but case didn’t update online on uscis website??
Maria LJan 27, 2022
hi Preet! congrats on your approval letter! i heard sometimes it takes several days to be updated on USCIS!
Preet sJan 27, 2022
Maria @ thnx congratulations to you 🍾🎉
teey laJan 27, 2022
congratulations
Leo SJan 27, 2022
wow! this was well written and very detailed. thanks so much. it’s appreciated. and Congratulations!!! I’m preparing for my interview in the following weeks so this helps a lot!
ilse somarribaJan 27, 2022
wow your seemed to go fast and smooth! good stuff, I submitted as much as I could when I submitted my application with my lawyer. now I’m just saving all the rest of the evidence I plan to bring, like bills and stuff with our name on it.
ilse somarribaJan 27, 2022
congrats 🎈🍾
Maria LJan 27, 2022
@Sarah thank you! You will do great at the interview! good luck to you!
Maria LJan 27, 2022
@ilse thank you! yeah, bring as much as you can and give them one by one as explaining them what kind of evidence is. I think you’ve been preparing enough for the interview. Hopefully the interview date will be scheduled soon!
v cekJan 27, 2022
congratulations
Gaby .Jan 27, 2022
congratulations 🍾
Sam panJan 28, 2022
@Maria, thanks a lot for a detailed post , i appreciate that , it is very enlightening to the fellow members. Good luck ......warmly
