Hope

We had our interview at Garden City yesterday morning. The line moved reasonably fast and we got called into a small office an hour earlier than our scheduled time. Our officer was rather gruff and humourless, albeit organised and efficient, throughout the whole process. I smiled and made a funny comment or two but stopped after realising he was the serious sort. He asked to see the originals and kept copies of every document as listed in the interview notice letter. We had also brought along lots of photographs and personal letters but he did not ask to see those. He finally said that everything was in order (at least I think that was what he said) and I had to be fingerprinted again before my application could be approved. We left after 20-30 minutes and most of it was spent hunting down the right documents because we brought so much with us.

There were several other interview rooms next to ours and we could hear laughter from them. I guess everyone has a different experience. We are glad our officer seemed to know exactly what he was doing and that our papers were safely in his USCIS folder (not misplaced like a few other britishexpats.com members have experienced).

My EAD will expire in Nov and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I get my Green Card before that. Any comments?

Thanks for all your postings and advice. They have all helped.

jujubar

Hi Hope,
we are both in the same position regaring the fingerprints, when did your's expire mine expired monday.

Hope

My fingerprints expired a month ago.

jujubar

It sucks, our interviewer told us that almost all the interviews she had done in garden city the fingerprints were expired. Like us you two must have started this process in 2003. its along time to wait.

Hope

Ermm, actually, we sent in all our applications mid-2002.

jujubar

OH my god that truely sucks........the really have to do something these waiting times...

Good luck...
if I hear anything i will page you on these boards

almoya

My interview is sked for Garden City on Thur Sept 8 -- am wondering how long your wait time was to see the officer, how long did the interview take. which documents did the officer ask to see.

thank you




Alberto

Hope

We queued outside before 7 am, got into the waiting room maybe at 7:30 am, and waited for 10 minutes or so. The officer asked to see everything for the both of us that the interview notice letter stated (i.e. ID, birth and marriage certificate(s), letters of employment, joint financial and health statements, lease, income tax returns, W-2 forms, pay slips) and not any of our photos (even though we offered them). Good luck, Alberto.

almoya

Thanks!

Did the officer stamp your passport? I'm hearing that Garden City isn't stamping passports.

A.

Hope

No, he did not stamp it. I have to get an apppointment to be fingerprinted again.

jujubar

Hope, I received a notice in the mail on Saturday for the fingerprints, so my guess is that you will get a Notice today or tomorrow.