The night before and morning of my interview I was somewhat scared thinking what if it doesn’t get approved but I did my best to suppress this and remain confident that nothing bad would happen. At the interview it was a set of very basic questions and I requested it to be done in English. I was asked stuff such as: who is the petitioner, what is your bday, how did you arrive to US, what year and month, do you have any criminal records in your home country, what do you do for living in the US, have you ever left the US at any point in time to another country…… everything I mentioned was cross checked with the documents in front of the person conducting the interview. The whole process took less than 5 minutes and before I knew it it, I was given a blue paper and interviewer was saying congrats your petition/visa has been approved.

The evidence I showed was birth certificates, tax returns, mortgage documents showing I own the house in which my family lives in, psychological evaluation results displaying the type of emotional stress my mom is going through and would suffer should I not be allowed to stay within the US with my family, flight tickets and visa stamp when I first arrived in the US which was in the late 90's and my lawyer did include Daca approvals and Work authorization copies in the packet but they were returned to me the day I dropped off all my documents in consulate as they said it was extra paperwork they did not need/require any longer.

The return flight was nerve racking to be honest. In customs (from my country) the agent was like "oh you have been living illegally in US correct and are returning?". I was like wtf you mean but then my mom stepped in and just said "I petitioned for my son, his green card was approved and we are returning home".... thankfully then he just stamped and let us through. Arriving in the US I simply handed my passport with my visa to the immigration officer and handed him the packet from embassy that only they can open, he checked my passport/visa and opened up the packet and promptly stamped both and wished me luck in the US. Very straight forward process and was glad to not have had any issues.