Brady007 Brady007
Nov 19, 2021
GREEN CARD APPROVED- New Card Is Being Produced (Marriage based AOS, Philadelphia)
New Card Is Being Produced
Category: IR-1 /CR-1 (U.S.Citizen filing for Spouse)
12/07/2020-We accepted the fingerprint fee for your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. Our National Benefits Center location is working on your case.
01/14/2021-The fingerprints relating to your Form I-485 Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, were taken.
10/12/2021-We are ready to schedule your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, for an interview.
10/19/2021-We scheduled an interview for your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. (Interview Date: 11/19/2021)
11/19/2021-New Card Is Being Produced
Field Office: Philadelphia
Our Interview was scheduled at 9:05 AM. We parked in the parking lot on side of USCIS Office ($20 Cash) and entered the building 15 minutes ago with Masks on as instructed. Once we checked in we were told to go to Floor-2 and we waited called by a lady officer around 9:10 AM from Door-3. She took us to her room where there was another officer already sitting. As instructed in the interview notice, we took all the paperwork submitted to USCIS until now and it was almost a whole box of paperworks. She explained that she is in training and the guy is the supervisor who is training her. The guy officer joked and told “You brought even more evidence and pointed to our file that there is already enough and we might not look into them”. I laughed and replied that I was just following the interview notice. This really made the whole situation very easy and every one was laughing. The lady officer asked us to take the Oath and then went over the I-130. She asked for our Driving License and Passport(that she entered USA) and SSN of my spouse.
I-130 Questions directed to me: Name, Place of birth, Current Address (since we moved from the address from the time of filing, she took a note of that), parents name, current employer, how many times you are married , date and place of marriage and any biological kids. She then asked for my naturalization certificate and verified it with the application. She made small talks that she just moved to Philly and since we moved here in March, she was asking if we liked it here or not.
I-485 questions directed to my wife: Name, Place of birth, Current Address (since we moved from the address from the time of filing, she took a note of that), parents name, Last entry to USA, current Status (H1-B), current employer, how many times you are married and any biological kids.
She then told she will be asking questions about our relation and anyone of us can answer.
1. When and Where do you meet?
2. When did the relation turned romantic?
3. When did you guys move-in?
4. Was there any proposal?
5. When did you get married?
6. Any Vacations you guys had recently?
She then told she is done with the questions and went to the I-485 Security questions. She asked around 10-15 questions and in one of the questions ; she only asked have you even been to court? and my wife answered No but I went to court for our wedding and every laughed and the supervisor told “good answer”.
She then asked what New Evidences we have brought. We told since we just got an RFE for I-130 on Sept, we submitted all the Bonafide Marriage evidences then and there has been not much update but we again brought everything as it was stated on the interview notice. The supervisor told since they have everything; he told give them only those thing that are new. We gave 2022 Health Insurance detail and new photos. She asked if we can keep the photos and I told yes and she went over the pictures and told these are so beautiful.
She then told the interview is complete and since we already submitted the Medicals during initial filling she is good with it and if we have any questions. We both said no. She then asked my wife to sign the I-485 form because we changed the address from initial filing.
The total time taken for the interview was about 20 minutes. Both for the officers were so nice and made the interview so comfortable for us.
Our lawyer (We only hired the lawyer for the interview) in the back asked when will they get a decision and she told she will approve it later today and we should receive the Green card in about 2-4 weeks. Then the supervisor escorted us to the door and the status changed to New Card being produced around 2:00 PM today.
IR-1/CR-1
U.S. citizen filing for a spouse
Total Days: 366 days
Case
2020-11-30
2021-12-01
I-485
366 Days
National Benefits Center: I-485
Timeline Map
2020-11-30
I-485
Submission to USCIS
2021-01-14
I-485
D+45
Biometrics, i.e. fingerprint and photo
2021-10-19
I-485
D+323
Interview
2021-12-01
I-485
D+366
Decision (Approval or Denial)
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H KNov 19, 2021
heartly congratulations 👏..I read your post and it feels so good to read all about this..🙏
H KNov 19, 2021
and thank you so much for sharing your experiences..it really mean alot for me and everyone here. 🙏
O JNov 19, 2021
congrats
Yanner VNov 19, 2021
congrats! I'm happy you had an easy going interview.
kings wifeyNov 20, 2021
@brady congratulations 🎉 if I may ask, did the officer take a copy of the social security card or just the number? and what did she do with that information? thanks
Brady007 Brady007Nov 20, 2021
she took the SSN and our DLs and kept in front of the table thruout the interview. ani am not sure what they did with the info but i guess just verifying against the application
they only made a copy of both of our driving license since we had moved the address from the time of filing.
j's case olNov 20, 2021
congratulations
Maurico maumauNov 22, 2021
congrats. thanks for sharing with so much details and insight. this will really be helpful. if I may ask how many years GC was approved.
Brady007 Brady007Nov 22, 2021
We have been married for 1 year and 1 month so we expect to receive a 2 year conditional GC
