AOS Interview

[david_dawei]

With our AOS interview coming up, I'm collecting interview information both for the FAQ and ourselves!

 

What stands out to me from the GUZ interview, and which I am equally applying to the AOS interview:

1) Documentation - consistency can be checked with questions similar to items on a form

2) Relationship - questions/evidence to show it is bona-fide

3) Public charge - financial evidence to show this is not an issue

 

The next posts will share information that I've collected in regards to the AOS interview...

[david_dawei]

To cover the 'consistency card'... here is a single place to review most of the questions answered along the visa process, include the AOS petition...

 

 

DS-156:

 

22. When did you intend to arrive in the US?

 

24. At what address will you stay in the US?

 

26. How long do you intend to stay in the US?

 

27. What is the purpose of your trip?

 

28. Who will pay for your trip?

 

29. Have you ever been in the US before?

 

30. Have you ever been issued a U.S. Visa?

 

31. Have you ever been refused a U.S. Visa?

 

32. Do you intend to work in the U.S. ?

 

33. Do you intend to study in the U.S. ?

 

35. Has your U.S. Visa ever been cancelled or revoked?

 

36. Has anyone ever filed an immigrant Visa petition on your behalf?

 

37. Are any of the following persons in the U.S. or do they hve U.S. permanent Legal Residence or U.S. Citizenship? HUSBAND / FIANCEE ?

 

38. Have you ever been arrested or convicted for any offense or crime, even though subject of a pardon, amnesty or other similar legal action? Have you ever unlawfully distributed or sold a controlled substance (drug), or been a prostitute or procurer for prostitutes?

 

Have you ever been refused admission to the U.S., or been the subject of a deportation hearing, or sought to obtain or assist others to obtain a visa, entry into the U.S., or any other U.S. immigration benefit by fraud or willful misrepresentation or other unlawful means? Have you attended a U.S. public elementary school on student (F) status or a public secondary school after November 30, 1996 without reimbursing the school?

 

Do you seek to enter the United States to engage in export control violations, subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State? Have you ever participated in persecutions directed by the Nazi government of Germany; or have you ever participated in genocide?

 

Have you ever violated the terms of a U.S. visa, or been unlawfully present in, or deported from, the United States?

 

Have you ever withheld custody of a U.S. citizen child outside the United States from a person granted legal custody by a U.S. court, voted in the United States in violation of any law or regulation, or renounced U.S. citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation?

 

Have you ever been afflicted with a communicable disease of public health significance or a dangerous physical or mental disorder, or ever been a drug abuser or addict?

 

39. Was this application prepared by another person on your behalf?

 

 

 

DS-156K

 

 

Signed and sworn by the Chinese national, that he/she is: “legally free to marry and intend to marry __________________ , a U.S. citizen within 90 days of my admission into the United States.

 

 

 

CERTIFICATION OF LEGAL CAPACITY AND INTENT TO MARRY.

 

 

Signed and sworn by the Chinese national, that he/she is: “legally free to marry and intend to marry __________________ , a U.S. citizen within 90 days of my admission into the United States.

 

 

DS-157

 

9. List all countries you have entered in the last ten years

10. List all countries that have ever issued you a passport

11. Have you ever lost a passport or had one stolen

12. List previous employers

13. List all professional, social, and charitable organizations to which you belong (belonged) or contribute (contributed) or with which you work (have worked)

14. Do you have any specialized skills or training, including firearms, explosives, nuclear, biological, or chemical experience? If yes, explain:

15. Have you ever preformed military service? If yes, give …

16. Have you ever been in an armed conflict, either as a participant or victim? If yes, explain:

17. List all educational institutions you attend or have attended…

 

 

 

DS-230, PART I:

 

10. Permanent address in the United States where you intend to live, if known. Include the name of the person who currently lives there.

 

11. Address in the United States where you want your permanent resident card (Green card) mailed, if different from address in # 10 (include name of person)

 

19. List info about all children

 

20. List all places you have lived for at least six months since age 16.

 

21a. Persons who accompanied you.

 

21b. Persons who will follow you to the United States at a later date

 

22. List all employment for last ten years. In what occupation do you intent to work in the United States?

 

23. List all educational institutions attended

 

24. Previous military service info

 

25. List dates of all previous visits to or residence in the United States. Give type of visa status.

 

 

 

DS-230, PART II:

 

a. An alien who has a communicable disease of public health significance; who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccinations in accordance with U.S. law; who has or has had a physical or mental disorder that poses or is likely to pose a threat to the safety or welfare of the alien or others; or who is a drug abuser or addict.

 

b. An alien convicted of, or who admits having committed, a crime involving moral turpitude or violation of any law relating to a controlled substance or who is the spouse, son or daughter of such a trafficker who knowingly has benefited from the trafficking activities in the past five years; who has been convicted of 2 or more offenses for which the aggregate sentences were 5 years or more; who is coming to the United States to engage in prostitution or commercialized vice or who has engaged in prostitution or procuring within the past 10 years; who is or has been an illicit trafficker in any controlled substance; who has committed a serious criminal offense in the United States and who has asserted immunity from prosecution; who, while serving as a foreign government official and within the previous 24-month period, was responsible for or directly carried out particularly severe violations of religious freedom; or whom the President has identified as a person who plays a significant role in a severe form of trafficking in persons, who otherwise has knowingly aided, abetted, assisted or colluded with such a trafficker in severe forms of trafficking in persons, or who is the spouse, son or daughter of such a trafficker who knowingly has benefited from the trafficking activities within the past five years.

 

c. An alien who seeks to enter the United States to engage in espionage, sabotage, export control violations, terrorist activities, the overthrow of the Government of the United States or other unlawful activity; who is a member of or affiliated with the Communist or other totalitarian party; who participated in Nazi persecutions or genocide; who has engaged in genocide; or who is a member or representative of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State.

 

d. An alien who is likely to become a public charge.

 

e. An alien who seeks to enter for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor who has not been certified by the Secretary of Labor; who is a graduate of a foreign medical school seeking to perform medical services who has not passed the NBME exam or its equivalent; or who is a health care worker seeking to perform such work without a certificate from the CGFNS or from an equivalent approved independent credentialing organization.

 

f. An alien who failed to attend a hearing on deportation or inadmissibility within the last 5 years; who seeks or has sought a visa, entry into the United States, or any immigration benefit by fraud or misrepresentation; who knowingly assisted any other alien to enter or try to enter the United States in violation of law; who, after November 30, 1996, attended in student (F) visa status a U.S. public elementary school or who attended a U.S. public secondary school without reimbursing the school; or who is subject to a civil penalty under INA 274C.

 

g. An alien who is permanently ineligible for U.S. citizenship; or who departed the United States to evade military service in time of war.

 

h. An alien who was previously ordered removed within the last 5 years or ordered removed a second time within the last 20 years; who was previously unlawfully present and ordered removed within the last 10 years or ordered removed a second time within the last 20 years; who was convicted of an aggravated felony and ordered removed; who was previously unlawfully present in the United States for more than 180 days but less than one year who voluntarily departed within the last 3 years; or who was unlawfully present for more than one year or an aggregate of one year within the last 10 years.

 

i. An alien who is coming to the United States to practice polygamy; who withholds custody of a U.S. citizen child outside the United States from a person granted legal custody by a U.S. court or intentionally assists another person to do so; who has voted in the United States in violation of any law or regulation; or who renounced U.S. citizenship to avoid taxation.

 

j. An alien who is a former exchange visitor who has not fulfilled the 2-year foreign residence requirement.

 

K. An alien determined by the Attorney General to have knowingly made a frivolous application for asylum.

 

L. An alien who has ordered, carried out or materially assisted in extrajudicial and political killings and other acts of violence against the Haitian people; who has directly or indirectly assisted or supported any of the groups in Colombia known as FARC, ELN, or AUC; who through abuse of a governmental or political position has converted for personal gain, confiscated or expropriated property in Cuba, a claim to which is owned by a national of the United States, has trafficked in such property or has been complicit in such conversion, has committed similar acts in another country, or is the spouse, minor child or agent of an alien who has committed such acts; who has been directly involved in the establishment or enforcement of population controls forcing a woman to undergo an abortion against her free choice or a man or a woman to undergo sterilization against his or her free choice; or who has disclosed or trafficked in confidential U.S. business information obtained in connection with U.S. participation in the Chemical Weapons Convention or is the spouse, minor child or agent of such a person

 

31. Have you ever been charged, arrested or convicted of any offense or crime?

 

32. Have you ever been refused admission to the United States at a port-of-entry?

 

33. Have you ever applied for a SSN ? If yes, give number.

 

34. Were you assisted in completing this application? If yes, give name..

 

 

 

GNI-2 :

 

 

9. Have you ever been to the United States? If yes, for how long and on what type of visa?

 

10. Have you ever been treated in a hospital, institution, or elsewhere for a mental disorder, drug addiction, or alcoholism? If the answer is yes, please explain the dates and circumstances.

 

11. Have you ever been arrested, convicted or confined in a prison, or have you ever been placed in a poorhouse or other charitable institution? If the answer is yes, please explain.

 

12. Have you ever been the beneficiary of a pardon, amnesty, rehabilitation decree, other act of clemency of similar action? If the answer is yes, please explain.

 

13. Have you ever applied for a visa to enter the United States? If the answer is yes, please explain which kind of visa you applied for, and whether the visa was granted or refused.

 

14. Have you been refused admission to the United States during the last twelve months? If yes, please explain.

 

15. Have you ever registered with a draft board under the United States Selective Service Laws?

 

16. Have you every applied for relief from training and service in the United Armed Forces or departed from or remained outside the United States to avoid or evade military service? If yes, please explain.

 

17. United States law governing the issuance of visas requires each applicant to state whether or not he / she is a member of any class of individuals excluded from admission from the United States. The excludable classes are described be- low. You should read carefully the following paragraphs. Your understanding of the content and the answers you give to the questions that follow will assist the consular officer in reaching a decision on your eligibility to receive a visa.

 

 

(A) Aliens who are mental retarded, insane, or who have suffered one or more attacks of insanity; aliens afflicted with psychopathic personality, sexual deviation, a mental defect, narcotic drug addiction, chronic alcoholism or any other dangerous or contagious disease; aliens who have a physical defect, disease, disability affecting their ability to earn a living; aliens who are paupers, professional beggars, or vagrants; aliens convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or who admit committing the essential elements of such a crime, or have been sentenced to confinement for at last five years in the aggregate for conviction of two or more crimes; aliens who are polygamists, or who practice or advocate polygamy; aliens who are prostitutes, or who have engaged in, benefited financially from , pro- cured or imposed persons for the purpose of prostitution, or who seek entry to the United States to engage in prostitution

 

DO ANY OF THESE CLASSES APPLY TO YOU? YES _______ NO ________

 

 

( Aliens who seek reentry within one year of their exclusion from the United States, or who have been arrested and deported from the United States, or removed at Government expense in lieu of deportation, or removed as an alient enemy; aliens who procure or attempt to procure a visa or other documentation by fraud or willful misrepresentation; aliens who are not eligible to acquire United States citizenship and who have depareted from or remained outside the United States to avoid United States military service in time of war or national emergency; aliens who have been convicted for violating or for conspiring to violate certain laws or regulations relating to narcotic drugs and marijuana, or who are known or believed to be, or to have been, an illicit trafficker in narcotic drugs; aliens seeking entry from foreign contiguous territory or adjacent islands within two years of their arrival therein on a non-signatory carrier, aliens who are unable to read and understand some language or dialect; aliens who, knowingly and for gain, have encouraged or assisted any other alien to enter or attempt to enter the United States in violation of law; and alients who are former exchange visitors who have not yet fulfilled the two year foreign residence requirement.

 

DO ANY OF THESE CLASSES APPLY TO YOU? YES _______ NO ________

 

 

© Aliens who are, or at any time have been anarchists, or members of or affiliated with any totalitarian party, including any subdivision or affiliate thereof; aliens who advocate or teach, or who have advocated or taught, either by personal utterance or b y means of any written or printed matter, or through affiliation with an organization, (1) opposition to organized government, (2) the overthrow of government by force and violence, (3) the assaulting or killing of government officials because of their official character, (4) the unlawful destruction of property, (5) sabotage, (6) establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States; aliens who seek to enter the United States to engage in prejudicial activities or unlawful activities of a subversive nature; and aliens who during the period of March 23, 1933 to May 8, 1945, under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person because of race, religion, national origin, or political opinion.

 

DO ANY OF THESE CLASSES APPLY TO YOU? YES _______ NO ________

 

 

 

 

I-485

 

Part I;

 

SSN , A#, Date of arrival, I-94 #, Current Status, Status expires on.

 

Part II:

 

Application type.

 

Part III:

 

Place of last entry into the United States.

In what status did you enter.

Were you inspected by a US Immigration Officer

Visa Number.

Consulate where visa was issued.

 

C.

List present and past memberships in or affiliations with every political party organization, association, fund, foundation, party, club, or society or similar group in the United States or in other places since your 16th birthday. Include any military service in this part.

 

 

 

Part IV:

 

 

1. Have you ever, in or outside the United States:

a. knowingly committed any crime of moral turpitude or a drug-related offense for which you have not been arrested?

 

b. been arrested, cited, charged, indicted, fined or imprisoned for breaking or violating any law or ordinance, excluding traffic violations?

 

c. been the beneficiary of a pardon, amnesty, rehabilitation decree, other act of clemency or similar action?

 

d. exercised diplomatic immunity to avoid prosecution for a criminal offense in the United States?

 

2. Have you received public assistance in the United States from any source, including the United States government or any state, county, city or municipality (other than emergency medical treatment), or are you likely to receive public assistance in the future?

 

3. Have you ever:

a. within the past ten years been a prostitute or procured anyone for prostitution, or intend to engage in such activities in the future?

 

b. engaged in any unlawful commercialized vice, including, but not limited to, illegal gambling?

 

c. knowingly encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted or aided any alien to try to enter the United States illegally?

 

d. illicitly trafficked in any controlled substance, or knowingly assisted, abetted or colluded in the illicit trafficking of any controlled substance?

 

4. Have you ever engaged in, conspired to engage in, or do you intend to engage in, or have you ever solicited membership or funds for, or have you through any means ever assisted or provided any type of material support to any person or organization

that has ever engaged or conspired to engage in sabotage, kidnapping, political assassination, hijacking or any other form of terrorist activity?

 

5. Do you intend to engage in the United States in:

a. espionage?

 

b. any activity a purpose of which is opposition to, or the control or overthrow of, the government of the United States, by force, violence or other unlawful means?

 

c. any activity to violate or evade any law prohibiting the export from the United States of goods, technology or sensitive information?

 

6. Have you ever been a member of, or in any way affiliated with, the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party?

 

7. Did you, during the period from March 23, 1933 to May 8, 1945, in association with either the Nazi Government of Germany or any organization or government associated or allied with the Nazi Government of Germany, ever order, incite, assist or otherwise participate in the persecution of any person because of race, religion, national orgin or political opinion?

 

8. Have you ever engaged in genocide, or otherwise ordered, incited, assisted or otherwise participated in the killing of any person because of race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin or political opinion?

 

9. Have you ever been deported from the United States, or removed from the United States at government expense, excluded within the past year, or are you now in exclusion, deportation, removal or recission proceedings?

 

10. Are you under a final order of civil penalty for violating section 274C of the Immigration and Nationality Act for use of fraudulent documents or have you, by fraud or willful misrepresentation of a material fact, ever sought to procure, or procured, a visa, other documentation, entry into the United States or any immigration benefit?

 

11. Have you ever left the United States to avoid being drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces?

 

12. Have you ever been a J nonimmigrant exchange visitor who was subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement and have not yet complied with that requirement or obtained a waiver?

 

13. Are you now withholding custody of a U.S. citizen child outside the United States from a person granted custody of the child?

 

14. Do you plan to practice polygamy in the United States?

 

YOUR REGISTRATION WITH THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES.

"I understand and acknowledge that, under section 262 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act), as an alien who has been or will be in the United States for more than 30 days, I am required to register with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. I understand and acknowledge that, under section 265 of the Act, I am required to provide USCIS with my current address and written notice of any change of address within ten days of the change. I understand and acknowledge that USCIS will use the most recent address that I provide to USCIS, on any form containing these acknowledgements, for all purposes, including the service of a Notice to Appear should it be necessary for USCIS to initiate removal proceedings against me. I understand and acknowledge that if I change my address without providing written notice to USCIS, I will be held responsible for any communications sent to me at the most recent address that I provided to USCIS. I further understand and acknowledge that, if removal proceedings are initiated against me and I fail to attend any hearing, including an initial hearing based on service of the Notice to Appear at the most recent address that I provided to USCIS or as otherwise provided by law, I may be ordered removed in my absence, arrested by USCIS and removed from the United States."

 

SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION. The following applies to you if you are a male at least 18 years old, but not yet 26 years old, who is required to register with the Selective Service System:

"I understand that my filing this adjustment of status application with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services authorizes USCIS to provide certain registration information to the Selective Service System in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act. Upon USCIS acceptance of my application, I authorize USCIS to transmit to the Selective Service System my name, current address, Social Security Number, date of birth and the date I filed the application for the purpose of recording my Selective Service registration as of the filing date. If, however, USCIS does not accept my application, I further understand that, if so required, I am responsible for registering with the Selective Service by other means, provided I have not yet reached age 26."

 

 

G-325a

 

Applicant’s residence.. list present one first.

 

Applicant’s last address outside of US

 

Applicant’s employment, last five years.

[david_dawei]

What to bring ?

 

Here is a list compiled so far from member's posts:

- Copy of submitted I-485 petition, including some Passport pictures

- Updated I-864

- 3 year tax transcript and W2s

- Employment letter

- Recent Pay stubs

- All fingerprints and medical exam requests and responses

- Copy of all EAD or AP documents, if applicable

- Social Security card (if you have it)

- State ID or driver license ID (if you have it)

- Birth Certificate of any child

- Copy of life, home, and auto insurance policies

- Loans and bank statements

- Pictures of our wedding, reception, baby shower, trips, and other family stuff

- Rental agreement

- Mortgage agreements

- Joint bank accounts

- Proof of joint property ownership

- Health Insurance

- Birth certificates of children

- Utility bills

[david_dawei]

Sample AOS Interview Letter:

 

 

http://candleforlove.com/FAQ/AOS/Sample_AOS_Interview_Letter.JPG

[david_dawei]

Questions during AOS Interview ?

 

 

Here is a list compiled from member's posts on AOS Interviews:

 

 

Example questions at AOS Interviews:

 

Sample Questions to Chinese national:

- Do you collect public assistance?

- Did you ever come to this country illegally?

- Did you ever get deported?

- Did you ever commit any crimes?

- Do you intend to steal technology?

- Home phone number?

- Have you ever been a member of the communist party?

- Why? [necessary for job]

- Filled out waiver and she signed it

- Ever done anything against the US government?

- Birth certificate for baby [baby brought to interview]

- Was he born in US?

- When is his birthday

- Evidence for the relationship, joint assets/property, etc.

- Questions similar to various documents previously filled out.

 

 

Sample Questions to USC:

 

- Passports

- Present job

- Marriage certificate

- How did you come to know your present wife?

- Tax returns

- First marriage?

- Any baby?

- Are you using any birth control right now?

- How old are you and wife?

- Have you ever been married before?

- When did you get divorced?

- Where is your ex-wife from?

- How long were you married to your ex-wife?

- Why did you two get divorced?

[pkfops]

More good work by David.

 

Another item for the "What to Bring"

 

My wife's cousin has volunteered to act as

her interpreter.

 

Just in case she get nervous and reverts back to

"I don't know" when she doesn't understand something.

[Bessie]

What to bring ?

 

Here is a list compiled so far from member's posts:

- Copy of submitted I-485 petition, including some Passport pictures

- Updated I-864

- 3 year tax transcript and W2s

- Employment letter

- Recent Pay stubs

- All fingerprints and medical exam requests and responses

- Copy of all EAD or AP documents, if applicable

- Social Security card (if you have it)

- State ID or driver license ID (if you have it)

- Birth Certificate of any child

- Copy of life, home, and auto insurance policies

- Loans and bank statements

- Pictures of our wedding, reception, baby shower, trips, and other family stuff

- Rental agreement

- Mortgage agreements

- Joint bank accounts

- Proof of joint property ownership

- Health Insurance

- Birth certificates of children

- Utility bills

192592[/snapback]

Hi David,

 

I am getting very confused. Do we need to bring "Birth Certificate of any child"? they are not children of this marriage, and we do not have the custody.

Edited February 24, 2006 by Bessie (see edit history)

[david_dawei]

More good work by David.

 

Another item for the "What to Bring"

 

My wife's cousin has volunteered to act as

her interpreter.

 

Just in case she get nervous and reverts back to

"I don't know" when she doesn't understand something.

193052[/snapback]

My SO said she doesn't want an interpreter !!

 

I must of over prep'ed her for the GUZ interview.. always playing down an denial as "we'll just go back again with whatever they want"...

 

Now she's using that line to me for the AOS interview

[david_dawei]

very confused.

193157[/snapback]

I'm with you on the confused part !

 

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The letter states:

 

- If you have children... (meaning from you and your SO)

- Then later mentions custody papers for any children (??)

 

I would assume that any child that needs to adjust status requires proof of birth... and that's where the line is drawn...

 

Hopefully some others can chime in ...

[Mick]

This is a great compilation of information David. Thanks. I think it will be helpful for those heading for AOS interviews.

 

Like most things in this process, I think different officers do thing in different ways so it is hard to know what to expect. Our interview, for example, was really informal and the officer really didn't ask any questions. Just wanted to know if we still lived at the same address. He played with the baby for a few minutes and approved everything.

 

I will also mention that he had our file on his desk. The thing was close to three inches thick!

 

About the only thing he really wanted to know was how the food was in Shantou, where we lived during our last four years in China.

 

I guess we were lucky in that regard.

 

Thanks again for compiling all this. It will be a boon to many.