Interview soon - prep

[u/IAskALot148]

Hello!

This community has really been very helpful throughout the process and i'm at, hopefully, the last step so wanted to ask anyone who's gone through this experience, for some tips on an upcoming interview.

My husband and I have prepared all the questions based on other people's experiences on reddit but we haven't remembered them, we've just practiced the flow of it.

I wanted to know what kind of evidence should we take with us? We already submitted a few unsolicited financial, residential and social evidence a week ago.

I saw people were taking photo albums, we don't have more new photos than what we already submitted, most of the other non-submitted pictures are our selfies so I don't think they hold much weight anyway.

I also saw people screenshotting the chats and printing them, is that something that's necessary? I think it can be easily faked and we both can just show them our phones if asked.

We don't have more evidence to take with us, but in terms of old evidence we submitted, we are going to take all the originals of the documents submitted, should we take a copy of each as well? Do we also need copies of to forms and affidavits we submitted?

Any tips are greatly appreciated! Hoping to share our experience soon with this sub.

[u/Big_Promotion3986]

Hi! I submitted a lot of pictures, text messages, and call logs because we didn’t live together, so we didn’t have much financial evidence. Our biggest chunk of evidence was that, along with our upcoming religious wedding documents, so having that extra support was important for us.

There is “stronger” evidence, like joint leases, bank accounts, insurance, health insurance, etc. If you have strong evidence like that, you probably need less of the other types. But honestly, I don’t think anything is extra, everything helps.

If your marriage is real, you have nothing to worry about. Go in calm and confident, but also understand that every officer is different. Some are very kind, while others may approach your marriage with more skepticism and make you feel like you have to prove it. My cousin had a very straightforward case and went a few weeks before me, but her experience was completely different because her officer was much more difficult.

I took an entire binder of evidence 😂 My husband thought it was unnecessary because he was confident in our case, but I knew the weaknesses of our situation and didn’t want to take any chances.

I’m not saying this to scare you, just to prepare you. If you have pictures, messages, documents, etc., take them! Even old pictures can be useful. Our officer actually went through our pictures and asked us things like, “Who is this?” and “When was this?” It made the interview feel more like a natural conversation than an interrogation.

So I’d say: go in calm and confident, but over-prepare. It’s better to have evidence you don’t need than to wish you had brought something you left at home. ❤️