After waiting 10 odd years, green card interview next week with spouse. Any tips? Thanks in advance!

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Here’s what I learnt. Literally nothing changes in your life the day after you get approved, you think it will and there’s all these opportunities, but really nothing changes.

As for the interview you should be fine, if you speak confidently and if your English is good you’ll be fine. Just be really familiar with the forms you submitted

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I may be an anomaly, but my visa extensions have always been smooth (🙏 thanking stars) and I somehow luckily ended up sorting all my paper work and filing away that it never caused any heartache with filling docs etc.
But yes, glad I don’t need to do it anymore cause I’m just plain lazy 🙈

A1, surely that can't be true. I've lost count of how many times I've come across job ads that say no sponsorship available or recruiters telling me sorry.. No h1b. My wife has the same issue with h4ead and recruiters. Best of all, with a gc you're no longer at the mercy of uscis. Especially these days. No consulate interviews, no stampings, no visa extension and anxiety... The feeling of being temporary goes away. Or should go away.

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I don’t think anyone expects that they’ll suddenly have many more opportunities or they earn more once they get green card. It is the relief from anxiety that matters.

Let them enjoy the moment guys, c’mon. Congratulations on the interview, OP! I do not have any tips, just dropped in to say congrats/good luck :)

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Can we take our phones inside? Wondering if we can show photos to prove relationship on phone or need to take printouts.

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FWIW our interview was less than 5 mins and the officer didn’t ask for pics. But it’s better to be prepared than not.

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The changes and benefits vary by person. In my case it was very helpful in landing a job in industry. It definitely would not have happened had I been on H1b. There are still a lot of firms that shy away from sponsoring visas. Good luck OP!

Thanks everyone!! :)

Everything you need to know as well as recent interviews at specific uscis locations is on trackitt.

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