Hi all,

Thought I'd give some advice about what I did for my recently sent in I-751 application. My wife (USC) has been living in a rent-controlled apartment since before we got married. We talked to the landlord about adding my name, but this meant a new lease, and re-setting the rent to current market rates. I tend to be rather frugal , so there was no way I was going to take a couple hundred dollars a month increase in our rent just to add my name to it.

So, what I did was, I wrote a letter for my landlord indicating his knowledge that I've been living at the apartment since I moved here. Our landlord is quite nice about these things, and he was happy to sign this letter.

Those of you in similar situation, or living at your spouse's parents' house etc should also consider this.

I guess it is a very good info for somebody living in a big city. Rent-controled apartment is something very alien even in 2mil Pittsburgh I wish that gas prices were "rent-controled"

We did the same thing, I wrote a letter and she signed it. We just got our approval email today.