dava22

Pulaski

I think the maximum time for the actual interview and test (it's all rolled in together) is one hour, of which the test is probably a couple of minutes, and they stop asking questions when you've answered six right. Some locations/ interviewers, probably most seem to rattle through them in 10-15 minutes. I am not sure how they are scheduled, but mine lasted an hour even though the "business bits" only took about 10 minutes. ..... The rest was personal chatter on matters of interest to the interviewer, and me.

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dava22

Gooner26

civilservant

Waiting will take the majority of the time. Mine took about 2 hours total, of which about 15 minutes was actually spent with an officer either taking the tests or interviewing.

Noorah101

My husband's was in Phoenix way back in 2009. The actual interview was about 20 to 30 minutes, but we waited in the waiting area for quite some time before he was called in. There's another questionnaire to fill out before the interview that took about 10 minutes.

Rene

sun_burn

Pulaski

That was probably about four times the thickness of my file.

sun_burn

Pulaski

CR-1 -> unrestricted GC (two years later) -> citizen. I can't imagine why there was anything more than a dozen sheets of paper.

SpoogleDrummer

I never had to fill anything out before the interview, I just went to the window and showed them my letter and was told to wait for my name to be called and that was that.

civilservant

There was a divorce waiver in there for me, so mine might have been as many as 15 pages

It was pretty thin, I honestly assumed it was just the N400 stuff rather than the whole file.

sun_burn

Interesting. I thought the 3-year track applications have a higher burden of evidence and would therefore mean case files with every last incriminating photo and love letter submitted . At least, that's what I assumed was the reason some case files were so thick.

My case wasn't complex, but I had a B1, then started grad school and switched to F1, and the rest. While the interviewer flipped through my file to insert my final I-94 travel record, I saw the paperwork from all those old filings.

I didn't have to fill in any questionnaire prior to my interview last year. The process was to head straight to the counter with the tray and submit the interview letter, then sit around to be called.

Pulaski

I don't remember much but providing bank statements and a couple of utility bills proving that we (still) live at the same address - remember, "married is married", and that is what is required, so evidence of address and an attestation (you can't, of course, "prove" a negative with hard evidence) that the marriage isn't ended* is pretty much all that is required I certainly don't remember providing photos or any other evidence of the fuzzy aspects of being married.

* I actually applied after more than five years, so all I needed at that time was to be a qualified (resident in the US, currently and for most of the previous five years) permanent resident.