How to Prepare for an Adjustment of Status Interview – By Andy G. Strickland
The purpose of an adjustment of status interview based upon marriage to a US Citizen is two- fold: to ensure the applicant is legally eligible to adjust their status and the marriage is bona fide. An attorney should prepare your adjustment of status packet and ensure you have met the legal qualifications to adjust. Secondly, your attorney needs to prepare you with documentation for your interview. The client and attorney need to review the documents that help support the fact you and your husband or wife are a real married couple and living together.
Many times this entails joint documentation. The resulting joint documentation will help the officer ascertain the bona fides of your relationship. Alternatively, it is important to gather documentation that might not be joint, but nevertheless shows both parties are living at the same address.