Hi folks
Anyone have any recent experiences of the CPR interview experience? Especially at the San Antonio District Office?
My wife is having kittens that they're going send me packing (she'd be so lucky...) - she cannot find her '99 taxes - thy've asked for the last three years - and this has got her convinced they may be unpleasant (...even more than usual).
We only had my fingerprints done last Saturday, we got the CPR appointment the day we left for San Antonio and it is this Wednesday.
Pain in the bum as it's a seven hour round journey. evil
The formal letter is about as scary as it got in my experience.
Took everything they asked for and they didn't even look at it. I think they ran through a couple of items from the original application, asked me my Social Security number and date of marriage (I fluffed them both!) and then asked if I wanted my income counted in the financial calculations they do.
Took a fingerprint and stamped my passport - over and done with in less than 15 minutes.
I still have the 'Removal of Conditions' interview to come - now that is going to be harder but I have switched the now-useless wife for an attorney this round smile
Both my conditional interview and adjustment of status interviews were short and easy affairs. We had so much evidence of a bona-fide marriage that they weren't concerned. As for the missing tax info - can your wife get her company to supply her with copies of W-2's for those years? Might help.
You need the 3 years tax returns for the affadivit if support requirement which has been tightened.(hence 3 years tax returns needed, unless you just filed an extension)..try and get them,(get a copy form the IRS if necessary) if you don't you could be denied..if you can't get as much evidence of income as you can, like W-2's etc and see if that works
We just applied for Adjustment of Status from a K-1 (fiance) visa...my wife had lost her 1999 tax return and applied for a new one with the IRS. The application in writing was made sometime in April and we just received a letter saying they needed more information, the application by phone was made in early May and we received it in 7 days so my advice would be to call the IRS to get the tax return if needed (it was not the whole return, just the W-2 (i think) but it will be enough for the INS according to our lawyer).
George
Thanks for all of the info folks. We managed to get hold of all the relevant tax returns - fortunately - it was no quick affair though. They looked at everything, and I mean everything, the interview took about 230 hours to conduct.
Not sure about why we were scrutinized so thoroughly (albeit ineffciently) - the guy interviewing us was Hispanic-American and kept on going on about he and other Hispanics saw Mexico as the mother country and how "whites" saw England as their original abode. Maybe he had a bee in his bonnet, but at least we don't have to go down to San Antonio again for a few months.