The interview we went to this time was for the green card. We waited more than two years for that interview. It was a bit like the interview Andie MacDowell and Gérard Depardieu's characters had to go through in the movie Green Card. But we had only one interviewer, we were both interviewed in the same room, at the same time, by the one interviewer, and I didn't have to tell her what kind of shampoo or cologne JtS uses.

We were interviewed at the INS (or whatever they're calling it now) in the Federal Building in Atlanta. We have an immigration attorney, and he was there with us during the interview.

I put all of our documentation into a portable hanging file (rigid plastic box about 12" x 15", with a handle on the lid). It was almost full of documentation. The interviewer used a couple of little tricks to try to get us to screw up (in case we were not legit), but they didn't pose a problem for us since our marriage is a solid one, and we've been together for more than two and a half years.