AOS Questions

ABOUT QUESTIONS.

1.- Questions About Your Courtship Period

Reflect on the history of your relationship. Be prepared to portray your journey from initial meeting to marriage. First date, subsequent meetings, important events, happy moments, sad moments, disagreements, times spent together, times spent with each other’s family and friends, special gifts, proposal, acceptance, sharing the news with family and friends, etc.

2.- Questions About Your Wedding

Be prepared to answer questions about the wedding ceremony, reception, guests, interesting or embarrassing events, if any, that happened during the ceremony or reception, what was served, how guests were entertained, did the wedding ceremony have a theme, who wrote the vows, who purchased the rings - how and where, who paid for the ceremony, honeymoon plans, etc.

3.- Questions About Your Living Conditions

Be prepared to answer questions relating to your present and past residences where you have lived together, including furniture and appliances, automobiles you have or had, type of residence, how big or small, number of rooms, neighbors, and visitors. Also be prepared to answer questions about job details, work schedules and working conditions, earnings, joint-spending, investments, tax filings, joint bank accounts, financial dealings, mortgages, future plans etc. 

If the USCIS officer suspects fraud he or she will go into much more detail. If this is the case you may also be asked to draw a sketch of a particular room or portion of your residence. 

Sometimes you may also be asked to show your house keys and tell what keys go to each door.

4.- Questions About Your Lifestyle and Habits

Be prepared to answer questions about each others general habits, lifestyle, preferences, daily routines, schedules, household chores, favorite pastimes – individual and together, holidays spent together, specific rituals that you follow, shopping habits, food habits, sleeping habits, religious routines, etc.

5.- Questions About Each Other, Each Other’s Family and Relatives

Be prepared to answers questions about each other’s relatives, friends, family, work place, family gatherings, festival celebrations, family holidays, anniversaries, dates and events of importance, etc. 

Be prepared to answer especially about your children, your spouse’s children from previous marriage, parents, siblings, other close relatives, if any, etc. 

AOS QUESTIONS NUMBER 1

1.- Name and Date of Birth of Spouse.

2.- When and where did you meet your spouse?

3.- Describe this 1st meeting.    

4.- Did you make arrangements to meet again?

5.- Did you exchange phone numbers?

6.- When did you meet next?

7.- Where were you living at the time? Where was your spouse living?

8.- When did you decide to get married? Where were you at the time?

9.- Did you live together before marriage?

10.- When and where did you get married? How did you and your spouse get to the church, 
courthouse, etc.?

11.- Who were the witnesses to the ceremony?

12.- Where had you purchased these rings? Did you and your spouse purchase them together?

13.- Did you have a reception after the ceremony?

14.- Where was it held?

15.- Do you have any photos of the ceremony and /or reception?

16.- Describe the reception.

17.- Did any of your, and your spouse's, family members attend? If so, who?

18.- Did you go on a honeymoon? If so, when and where?

19.- If you did not have a reception, what did you do after the wedding ceremony?

20.- Where did you live after the wedding?

21.- Describe the place where you lived right after the marriage. Number of bedrooms and bathrooms; furnishings; color of walls, floor coverings, appliances, etc; type of air conditioning, heating, etc; # of telephones, televisions, etc. 

22.- Do you have cable television?

23.- Where did you get the furniture? Was it already there, did you buy it, was it a gift, or did it 
come from your, or your spouse's, previous residence?

24.- If brought to the house or apartment, describe how it was transported.

25.- Describe your bedroom. Where do you keep your clothes? Where does your spouse keep his or her clothes? Where are the bathroom towels kept? Where do you keep the dirty clothes?

26.- Where is the garbage kept in the kitchen?

27.- On what day of the week is the garbage picked up?

28.- Where do you shop for groceries? Do you go together with your spouse? How do you get there?

29.- Where do you work? What days of the week do you work?

30.- What hours do you work? What is your salary?

31.- What is your telephone # at work?

32.- When was the last vacation you had from work?

33.- Did you and your spouse go anywhere together at that time?

34.- When was the last vacation you and your spouse took together?

35.- Where did you go? How did you get there? Describe it.

36.- Where does your spouse work? What days of the week? What hours? What is the salary, if you know?

37.- What is your spouse telephone # at work?

38.- When was the last time your spouse got a vacation from work?

39.- Do you or your wife have any scars or tattoos? If so, where on the body?

40.- Do you know your spouse family members? If so, which ones? If your spouse has children from a previous marriage, their names, ages, where they live, and where they go to school, if applicable.

41.- Where do you live now? (If different from where you lived right after the marriage, then go over the same questions as above). 

42.- How much is the rent? When is it paid? How do you pay it?

43.- Do you have a bank account together? Where? What kind of account? (Checking, savings).

44.- Are both of you listed on the account? (Do you have a bank letter, cancelled checks, etc.?)

45.- Did you file a joint tax return this year? Do you have a copy with you?

46.- Do you own any property together? What property? Did you bring copies of the documents with you?

47.- What kind of automobile do you and your spouse have? Describe them.

48.- Do you have an insurance policy listing your spouse as the beneficiary? If so, do you have a copy?

49.- Have you taken any trips or vacations together? Do you have photos from these trips?

50.- Do you have any utility bills, or receipts from items you have purchased together?

51.- What other documentation do you have to show that you are living together as husband and wife?

52.- Do you have any pets? What kind, what are their names, and describe them?

53.- What did you do for Christmas, New Years, your anniversary, or you or your spouses last 
birthday? Did you exchange gifts? If so, what kind of gift?

54.- Did you or your spouse go to work yesterday? If so, at what time did you and/or your spouse leave the house and return?

55.- Who cooks the meals at the house?

56.- What is your spouse favorite food? What is your favorite food?

57.- Does your spouse drink coffee? If so, does he or she use cream and/or sugar?

58.- Did you eat dinner together last night? Did anyone else have dinner with you? What did you have?

59.- What time was dinner served? Who cooked it?

60.- Did you watch TV after dinner? What shows did you watch?

61.- At what time did you go to bed? Who went to bed first?

62.- Did you have the air conditioning or heater on?

63.- Who woke up first this morning? Did an alarm clock go off?

64.- Did you or your spouse take a shower?

65.- Did you come to the interview together? Who drove?

66.- Did you have breakfast? Where and what did you eat?

AOS QUESTION NUMBER 2

Development of Your Relationship

1.- How long have you known each other?

2.- How did you meet?

3.- When did we meet in person?

4.- Where did you meet the first time?

5.- Who approached the other and how?

6.- Did you make arrangements to meet again? 

7.- Did you exchange phone numbers? 

8.- When did you meet next? 

9.- Where did you go? How did you get there? Describe it. 

10.- Did you and your spouse go anywhere together at that time? 

11.- Where did you go for dates?

12.- Where were you living at the time? Where was your spouse living? 

13.- Did your wife visit you before the marrige and where?

14.- What did the two of you have in common?

15.- When did your relationship turn romantic?

16.- When was the last time you had sex with your wife?

17.- Where was the last place you had sex with your wife?

18.- What kind of birth control do you use?

19.- What color is your wife underwear today?

20.- How long was it before you decided to get married?

21.- Who proposed to whom?

22.- Why did you decide to have a [long, short] engagement?

23.- Did your parents approve of the match? Why or why not?

24.- What do I love about my fiancé?

The Wedding

1.- Why was my fiance's first marriage not working out?

2.- When did my fiance propose?

3.- When did you decide to get married? Where were you at the time? 

4.- Did you live together before marriage?

5.- Where were you living at the time? Where was your spouse living? 

6.- When did you decide to get married? Where were you at the time? 

7.- Where had you purchased these rings? Did you and your spouse purchase them together? 

8.- When and where did you get married? How did you and your spouse get to the church, courthouse, etc.?

9.- Was there music or other entertainment?

10.- How many people attended your wedding?

11.- Who were the witnesses to the ceremony?

12.- Who were the bridesmaids/groomsmen?

13.- Did any of your, and your spouse's, family members attend? If so, who?

14.- Did each of your parents attend?

15.- Did you exchange wedding rings?

16.- Do you have any photos of the ceremony and /or reception? 

17.- Did you have a reception after the ceremony?

18.- Where was it held? 

19.- Describe the reception.

20.- How late did the guests stay?

21.- If you did not have a reception, what did you do after the wedding ceremony? 

22.- Describe the place where you lived right after the marriage. Number of bedrooms and
bathrooms; furnishings; color of walls, floor coverings, appliances, etc; type of air conditioning, heating, etc; # of telephones, televisions, etc.

23.- Do you have cable television? 

24.- Did you go on a honeymoon? If so, when and where?

Regular Routines

1.- Who gets up first? At what time?

2.- How many alarm clocks do you set in the morning?

3-. Who makes breakfast?

4.- What do each of you eat for breakfast?

5.- Does your spouse drink coffee in the morning?

6.- What day is your garbage picked up?

7.- Who cleans the house?

8.- How often do you have to do laundry and who does it?

9.- When do you do laundry and when was the last time it was done?

10.- Who takes care of paying the bills?

11.- Do you have a cat, dog, or other pet? Who feeds it? Who walks it (or cleans its kitty litter box, cage, etc.)?

12.- Do you and/or your spouse attend regular religious services? Where?

13.- Where do you keep the spare toilet paper?

14.- What time do the working spouse or spouses arrive home?

The Cooking

1.- Where do you shop for groceries? Do you go together with your spouse? How do you get there? 

2.- Who cooks the meals at the house?

3.- How many times a week on average do you eat out?

4.- What is your favorite restaurant for special occasions? For weekly outings?

5.- What is your spouse's favorite/least food? What is your favorite/least food?

6.- Is there a particular food that you eat every week?

7.- Does your spouse drink coffee? If so, does he or she use cream and/or sugar?

8.- Do you have a barbecue grill? Do you use it?

Other Family Members

1.- What are the names of family members: parents, brothers and sisters?

2.- Have you met each other’s parents?

3.- How often do you see each other’s parents?

4.- When was the last time you saw them? Where? For how long?

5.- How do each of you get along with your parents-in-law?

6.- On important holidays, do you buy individual gifts for your parents-in-law? Do they buy individual gifts for you?

Home Technology

1.- How many land-line telephones are in your house? Where are they?

2.- Do you have an answering machine on your home telephone? Who checks the messages?

3.- How many televisions are in the house? In which rooms? Do you watch shows together, or separately? Name one show that you always watch together.

4.- Do you record any television shows?

5.- Do you subscribe to a DVD rental service?

6.- Do you have internet? Who is your provider?

7.- Does your spouse listen to the radio? What station?

8.- Do you have a camera? Who uses it most often? Who takes pictures at important family occasions?

9.- How many cars do you have?

10.- Do you have a garage? Who parks in it? Do you use a garage door opener?

In the Bedroom

1.- Describe your bedroom. Where do you keep your clothes? Where does your spouse keep his or her clothes? Where are the bathroom towels kept? Where do you keep the dirty clothes? 

2.- Do you have closets in your bedroom and how many?

3.- Are the closets built insede the walls or not?

4.- Do you have a regular mattress, futon, or waterbed?

5.- What size is your bed (Twin, Queen, or King)?

6.- How many windows are there in your bedroom?

7.- What color are your spouse’s pajamas?

8.- Who sleeps on each side of the bed?

9.- What form of contraception (birth control) do you use?

10.- When was your wife’s last menstrual period?

11.- Do either of you read or watch television before going to sleep? Do you have lamps next to your bed?

12.- Have you ever had an argument that resulted in one of you sleeping in another room? Who, and which room?

13.- Do you leave any lights on when you go to sleep at night?

The Rest of the House

1.- Do you have windows in the kitchen and in the bathroom and how many?

2.- How many keys opens the doors to your appartment?

3.- Do you live in a home or apartment? Who pays the mortgage or rent? How much is it?

4.- How many people live in the house?

5.- Is there a carpet in your front hallway? What color?

6.- Is your sofa a regular one or does it have a pull-out bed?

7.- What type of curtains or window coverings are in your living room? What color?

8.- How many staircases are in your house?

9.- How many sinks, toilets, and showers are there in your house or apartment in total?

10.- Where do you keep extra rolls of toilet paper?

11.- Where do you keep your dirty clothes?

12.- What is the color of the laundry bag?

13.- Do you have a shower curtain or a glass door?

14.- Where did you get the furniture? Was it already there, did you buy it, was it a gift, or did it come from your, or your spouse's, previous residence?

15.- Have you ever had houseguests sleep there?

16.- Where is the garbage kept in the kitchen? 

17.- Do you have any pets? What kind, what are their names, and describe them?

18.- What public means of transportation is closest to where you live?

19.- How many floors are in your building and what floor you live on?

20.- Do you have a fire escape where you both live?

21.- What color is the microwave?

22.- What colors are your: refrigirator, kitchen table, coach, computer, etc?

Celebrations

1.- What is husband's birthday? 

2.- What is wife's birthday?

3.- What did you do for your spouse’s last birthday?

4.- What did you give/get as a gift for a birthday?

5.- When is your wedding anniversary?

6.- When is your first date anniversary?

7.- What religious holidays do you celebrate together?

8.- What’s the most important holiday of the year in your household?  Where do you typically celebrate it?

9.- What did the two of you do last New Year’s Eve? Fourth of July?

10.- Have you and your spouse gone to see a movie or other form of entertainment lately? When, and what did you see?

11.- Do you go to church with your wife and where?

Joint stuff

1.- Do you have a bank account together? Where? What kind of account? (Checking, savings). 

2.- Did you file a joint tax return this year? Do you have a copy with you? 

3.- Do you have an insurance policy listing your spouse as the beneficiary? If so, do you have a copy? 

4.- Do you have any utility bills, or receipts from items you have purchased together? 

5.- Do you own any property together? What property? Did you bring copies of the documents with you? 

6.- Where do you live now? (If different from where you lived right after the marriage, then go over the same questions as above). How much is the rent? When is it paid? How do you pay it? 

7.- When did you move into your present appartment?

8.- How long have you lived in your current address?

9.- What kind of automobile do you and your spouse have? Describe them. 

10.- Have you taken any trips or vacations together? Do you have photos from these trips? 

11.- What other documentation do you have to show that you are living together as husband and wife? 

12.- Where did you get the furniture? Was it already there, did you buy it, was it a gift, or did it come from your, or your spouse's, previous residence? 

13.- Do you know your spouse's family members? If so, which ones? If your spouse has children from a previous marriage, their names, ages, where they live, and where they go to school, if applicable. 

14.- Did you go to the doctor with your spose for medical examination for the interview?

15.- Where was the medical examination done?

16.- How much did you pay for medical examination?

17.- When was the medical examination done?

Knowing each other

1.- How old both of you?

2.- Name and Date of Birth of wife. 

3.- Where was he born? 

4.- When did my fiance divorce?

5.- Do I have any brothers and sisters?

6.- Does my fiance's have any brothers and sisters?

7.- Do you know your spouse's family members? If so, which ones? If your spouse has children from a previous marriage, their names, ages, where they live, and where they go to school, if applicable. 

8.- Where do my fiance's parents live?

9.- Does he have children? Do you know how old they are?

10.- Do you plan to have children with your wife?

11.- Where have you lived in the past 5 years?

12.- What was your last address outside the USA?

13.- Who are your employers for the last 5 years?

14.- Where does your spouse work? What days of the week? What hours? What is the salary, if you know? 

15.- When did your spouse begin working with her present employer?

16.- Where do you work? What days of the week do you work? What hours do you work? What is your salary? 

17.- When did your begin working with her present employer?

18.- What is your telephone # at work? 

19.- When was the last time your spouse got a vacation from work?

20.- When was the last vacation you and your spouse took together? 

21.- Has your spose ever travaled since you got married?

22.- Where and when did she travel?

23.- How long did her trip last?

24.- Do you or you spose smoke and what kind of cigarettes?

25.- Does your wife use any medication?

26.- Do you or your wife have any scars or tattoos? If so, where on the body?

27.- Was your spouse inspected by US immigration officer at the point of entry?

28.- What is the name of your spouse's prior husband and the date their marrige ended?

Day Before

1.- Did you or your spouse go to work yesterday? If so, at what time did you and/or your spouse leave the house and return?

2.- Did you eat dinner together last night? Did anyone else have dinner with you? What did you have?

3.- What time was dinner served? Who cooked it? 

4.- Did you have the air conditioning or heater on?

5.- At what time did you go to bed? Who went to bed first?

6.- Did you watch TV after dinner? What shows did you watch?

7.- Did you have breakfast? Where and what did you eat?

8.- Did you or your spouse take a shower? 

9.- Did you come to the interview together? Who drove?

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