Weird interview yesterday with lots of non-marriage related grilling
Heres my previous post
https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/1skxinb/marriage_based_aos_moving_super_fast/
I expected to see my case under scrutiny since we have been married for only 3 months. So I imagined the focus would be on the details of our relationship. I was so wrong
The 130-related questions for me only took up about a quarter of the hour when I was inside the office. The rest was all about my background BEFORE US. The officer seemed very pre-determined about certain things in my case yet somehow managed to keep making factually wrong arguments. I got annoyed when she said 'but you didnt even finish your masters degree!' idk if thats bc she was incompetent and didnt read my 485 clearly, or that was an interrogation tactic.
I grew up in China and left after I finished college at 21. I stayed in Germany for grad school and work until i came to the us last year. She spent 30min asking for details about my life in China, specifically about my parents occupation and my high school.
I guess she wanted more info about my parents bc i stated that my parents supported me financially when i was unemployed. But my parents have the most banal manufacturing jobs and I really dont know much when she asked me 'how many ppl do they supervise' or 'what exactly do they do day to day'. My parents dont share their work detail w me and I genuinely dont care to know. Plus my parents and I have been estranged in recent years. At first i was confused about where this convo was going, and I soon realized she was fishing for any incriminating evidence about whether my parents were CCP members, the companies they work for were 'politically problematic', and i was living on 'blood money' in their narrative. So i steered the answers into telling her NO explicitly. I wish she had been more clear with the intention of her questions instead of beating around the bush. I hope she doesnt issue an RFE for that part bc it would be such a headache to prove a tie or a fact DIDNT exist.
The high school part really threw me off. why did she also want to know about my academic performance in high school and how I got into that high school? In the end, she even wrote in the testimony that 'Even tho he was in the advanced classes for physics and chemistry he chose to major in sociology in college'? can someone pls explain to me how that was relevant to my marriage based green card in any sense?
Then comes the Germany part. at first she was SO convinced that I was working for the federal gov of Germany and the whole convo turnt into a security clearance check (again, idk why all of that was happening at a marriage based gc interview), regarding my addresses in Germany (i was asked to list all the names of roommates and landlord, and how i found those rented apts), the scholoarship i received from the german gov for my gradschool (i might remind you, a NATO ally), the projects i worked on at my last job at a german academic institute. Same went for my USC partner, who did his phd in a German uni. I understand some STEM subjects are considered 'critical national security concern', but I worked in social sciences and my partner does cultural studies.
Anyways, it seems like my case has triggered some sort of security concern and more post interview background check is bound to happen. I appreciate any advice from ppl who went through similar situations!