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4 Examples of INS Fiancée Visa Interviews:

The Real Short INS Fiance Visa Interview
This interview was my own interview. We had brought our 8 month old son to the interview. The officer started by asking to see our original documents, her passport, and evidence of employment. We had also brought along the video of our wedding. At that moment, our son lunged across the counter and seized the petition from the officer and began to crumple the forms. Desperately, we attempted to free the forms from him by use of bottle, keys, coaxing, and teething ring. Embarrassed, we apologized and then were told that the interview was over; our child was the interview as far as he was concerned. We had no problem getting the INS fiance visa.

The Short INS Fiance Visa Interview
This was a joint interview with husband and wife. The interviewing officer began by reviewing original documents and asked for joint tax returns and photographs for the couple. He asked the wife a few questions about her husband's work telephone number and his employment. (The questions were for HER to answer, not him.) He then went over the questions on Communism, terrorism, and drug dealing on the I-485 form. He then asked the husband to describe how they met. After listening to the husband go on for a few minutes, the officer asked the husband to stop talking about her and approved the petition. Duration: about twenty-five minutes.

The Long INS Fiance Visa Interview
This interview was held with husband and wife separately after the review of documents and tax returns. The officer asked each for their house keys and marked them for comparison. The officer asked for wedding pictures. The officer then asked each to draw their bedroom putting in bed, windows, closets, TV's, lights. What color was the bedroom carpet? Where was the telephone? What color was the telephone? Was the telephone a cordless or corded telephone? When did the wife last cook for the husband? What was cooked? Where was it served? What is the work telephone number for the husband? What are their intentions for children? Duration of this interview was about an hour and a half. Approval arrived by mail about two weeks later.

The Real Long INS Fiance Visa Interview
This interview was videotaped by INS. There was an immediate request for wedding pictures and pictures of the couple with family members. It was followed by a request for all joint documents and the parties were questioned closely about insurance, automobiles, and joint businesses/ employment. The majority of the interview was conducted with each person separately.

The officer asked each to draw their bedroom putting in bed, windows, closets, TV's, lights. What color was the bedroom carpet? Where was the telephone? What color was the telephone? Was the telephone a cordless or corded telephone. Who are their neighbors? What are their intentions for children? When did he last kiss her and vice-versa-where, what location, and what time of day?

When did the wife last cook for the husband? What was cooked? Were there side dishes? Where was the meal served? What time of day? Was the meal eaten sitting or standing? Did he serve or she serve? Did he have second helpings? Was the TV on- what show? What is his favorite food? Her favorite food? What attracted her to him? What attracted him to her? Why did they get married? What do they like best about the other? The least about each other?

When was their last argument- time, day, place, subject? Who started the argument? How was it resolved?

The duration of this interview was about three hours. A second interview was held with the citizen wife alone on short notice about two weeks later. Approval arrived about two months later.

Before you panic completely, remember all of these cases passed their interview and were approved for residency. Each of these couples had different factors present in their case which determined the level of scrutiny that was applied. The key to success was that each of these couples were in real marriages and were living together as man and wife. Hundreds of couples go through these interviews every day and most of them pass.

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