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**Jake01** · 09-19-2007, 01:55 PM

Hi all, well last week I had notification that my EAD card has been approved and ordered which took 69 days in total, since the day Chicago received my AOS Package. Today I receive a letter telling me my Interview has been scheduled... OMG!!! it's only 4 weeks away!!!
and 92 days in total.

**Steve Lawrence** · 09-19-2007, 02:41 PM

Just remember.. Vermicello.

**Jake01** · 09-19-2007, 02:55 PM

? dont understand ... elaborate?

**Hudson** · 09-19-2007, 04:24 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jake01:
Hi all, well last week I had notification that my EAD card has been approved and ordered which took 69 days in total, since the day Chicago received my AOS Package. Today I receive a letter telling me my Interview has been scheduled... OMG!!! it's only 4 weeks away!!!
and 92 days in total. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Congrats. Did the notification tell you to bring anything, like the I-863? And don't forget your passport. When the interview goes well, the immigration officer should stamp the passport identifying you as a permanent resident.

**Jake01** · 09-19-2007, 05:06 PM

Thanks Hudson, The letter tells me to bring:-

This Letter, your passport, your original I-94 (arrival/Departure form,) if any.

A current letter of employment for you and/or your spouse showing rate of pay and hours worked

We request that you bring Originals plus one copy of all appropriate documents

Your spouse

Evidence of a common residence and shared life (including photo's)

nothing about I-863, I can only assume they want a letter from spouse's employer due to only sending tax returns up to 2006, and we are now towards the end of 2007.

what do you think?

**Hudson** · 09-19-2007, 05:16 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jake01:
Thanks Hudson, The letter tells me to bring:-

This Letter, your passport, your original I-94 (arrival/Departure form,) if any.

A current letter of employment for you and/or your spouse showing rate of pay and hours worked

We request that you bring Originals plus one copy of all appropriate documents

Your spouse

Evidence of a common residence and shared life (including photo's)

nothing about I-863, I can only assume they want a letter from spouse's employer due to only sending tax returns up to 2006, and we are now towards the end of 2007.

what do you think? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
the only reason that the I-863 is not included could be either your age or your home country. The letter of employment from your spouse is used to prove financial requirements and/or shared life. Shared life can include any life insurance contracts, term or whole, medical, mortgage statments, bank account with both your names on it, leases, etc. The photos should include recent ones of trips, family gatherings, etc. They like at least one or two photos of the two of you and some with friends or family. If you don't have one with friends or family, that is fine.

The immigration officer will generally say "it appears that you meet the requirements" and then explain what a perm resident means, ie voting or portraying to be a USC.

**Jake01** · 09-19-2007, 05:26 PM

The only thing we have for evidence is the house lease, gas bill are in both our names,
my husband has an insurance policy with me as the beneficiary, but thats about all, as I have had no SSN, his bank would not agree to have a joint account, and most of the other utilities wanted an ssn too, but we have plenty of photo's, so we will see. but ... Hudson I want to thank you for your help, you have given me some good advise ove the past few months.

**Rough Neighbor** · 09-19-2007, 06:28 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hudson:
... And don't forget your passport. When the interview goes well, the immigration officer should stamp the passport identifying you as a permanent resident. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sorry, Hudson, they used to do it procedurally back in the day, but they don't do it now, due to a more advanced technology in card production maybe. The interval between the approval at the local office and card receipt in the mail takes no time at all. The I-551 stamping is now done by "request" thru info pass after the receipt of a Welcome Notice and under extreme emergencies only. But, Jake, you must have a valid passport during the interview just the same.

**Steve Lawrence** · 09-20-2007, 01:53 PM

>? dont understand ... elaborate?

Ahh. There's a film - Green Card. Starring um.. that french guy - Gerard Depardieu I think.

Anyway... He had married a USC for a Green Card, and she had married him to retain her apartment in NYC that required multiple occupants.. Or something.

The whole film revolves around their escapades with INS in trying to pass themselves off as a happily married couple, and they were able to do so - even though they clearly didn't get along (she liked cats, he was allergic. He had a passion for fine wine, she drank coke.. etc)

The culmination of the film is their interview. They'd been preparing for weeks, with him remembering the named of all her sisters, she remembering the name of the region in france he grew up in. He remembering her favorite flower, and the type of hand-cream she used, and she remembering what side of the bed he's supposed to sleep on.

Except.. He always had trouble remembering the hand-cream. Vermicello it was called. He practiced and practiced.

On the day of the interview they separated them. The INS officer asked him the names of her sisters. They asked her what kind of wine he liked. They asked him what colour their cats were, they asked her what was her favourite dish that he liked to cook for her.

They're closing up the interview and the interviewer obviously has one last question. They asked him what her favourite hand cream was. He panicked. Sat there racking his brains, couldn't remember... Just went blank, and mutters 'Dammit, I always forget that one...'

And the game was up. The interviewer repeats 'You always forget... that one?'. He fesses up, and gets deported. As he's being carted away, she (having been released) runs up to him, kisses him and promises that she'll come visit him - having fallen in love with him during the brief period of time they spent together going through each other's lives to pull off the scam.

Anyway - there you go. Fabulous film... Well worth a watch.

Oh, and I had absolutely no problems with my interview. (I'm a Brit). I think it helped that a friend of ours is a lawyer, did all the paperwork and also attended our wedding. He knows, I guess, all the INS interviewing agents, and we just turned up at her desk - he's like 'Hey Jen, these are my friends.. I was a witness at their wedding..' and she's like 'Oh really? Cool.. So where'd you guys meet? Oh.. work? Hmm.. sounds great.' !STAMP!

That was it.. I was stunned. We brought photos, licenses, copy of marriage certificate, bills, (divorce papers if you have those) and allsorts. We almost had to *ask* her to look at them, because we'd spent so much time getting them together we felt a bit cheated.. :P

G'luck with yours though. I hope it's as simple as mine was.. And don't forget the hand-cream...

Steve.

Steve.

**Jake01** · 09-20-2007, 02:31 PM

Thanks Steve, unlucky for me we haven't a lawyer, as a family friend LOL!, and I have seen parts of the film green card, but never got to watch it all the way thru, so I definately missed the Interview, I do remember the end when Gerard has to leave, I think the Girl was Gina Davis, "The Fly" girl.

Anyway glad you got thru ok with your interview and best wishes to you and your wife.

**Hudson** · 09-20-2007, 06:01 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jake01:
The only thing we have for evidence is the house lease, gas bill are in both our names,
my husband has an insurance policy with me as the beneficiary, but thats about all, as I have had no SSN, his bank would not agree to have a joint account, and most of the other utilities wanted an ssn too, but we have plenty of photo's, so we will see. but ... Hudson I want to thank you for your help, you have given me some good advise ove the past few months. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>\
I thought your EAD was approved. If the EAD is approved, then you can go to SS office and apply for the SSN. Usually takes two weeks. Once you get the SSN, you and your husband can go to the bank and add your name.

However, if it is too much trouble, just bring the house lease, copy of the beneficiary statement naming you the beneficiary, and the bills in both your names. That is enough to prove a valid marriage and relationship, along with the photos.

**Jake01** · 09-20-2007, 08:04 PM

Hudson, yes I've been approved and I had an email saying that card production has been ordered and that I should receive it within 30 days, but all I have is an email at the moment and to apply for a SSN you have to have the EAD in hand. I am hoping I will receive it within the next week, that way I can get it all sorted out.

**herbit** · 09-21-2007, 01:41 PM

Be prepared to possibly wait longer after your interview.

**Jake01** · 09-21-2007, 03:54 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by herbit:
Be prepared to possibly wait longer after your interview. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

what for? The green card, I dont mind that, as long as I have my ead.

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