My co-sponsor's bank officer is being a complete pain in the rear. She said they cannot give total year's deposits. I think it's more like she doesn't want to mess with it. Anyway, what do we do? If the co-sponsor gives all her bank statements for the last year showing all her deposits, withdraws and such, and her account numbers and so forth, I don't think she's comfortable with that. So does anyone have a suggestion on this? I need help ASAP

My bank couldn't give me the year's deposits either. Luckily I brought with me my monthly statements and added them up for her (cuz this is too hard for them to do). She put that total in the bank statement. Maybe your co-sponsor can do the same thing?

When my fiance contacted the bank over the phone, he was told that they said it was impossible to go back a year and add the amounts deposited. He then went to the branch where he had opened the account to talk to a manager, waited for a hour or so and got the statement he needed.

I've read that some people did exactly what neptune did and it worked.

If you tell me which bank does your co-sponsor deals with I can mayble help !!!!

There are 2 ways to go at this. You can go on income or you can go on assets.The easiest way, by far is on income. If this is the method you choose then there is no reason to provide banking information to them. They simply need tax records, pay statements, and letter of employment. There is no reason to let them into your bank accounts.

Well actually it's a credit union in her home town, which is probably part of the problem. They have probably never had this come up before, or it's so rare they have no idea what they're doing.

Geez, what did I do with this post? What's with my English!



She could try showing the I-134 form so they can read what kind of info they're supposed to have in the statement. I mean, it's not too hard, right?, to write a statement showing the date the account was opened, the total amount of deposits made within a year. Maybe she can ask them if it'd be okay if she added up the amount herself, using her monthy statements, saving them a lot of work.

Seems to me persistance would pay in this situation. The information is YOUR Data and you have a right to obtain that data just like the IRS can ask for this data!

Lyric,

A year's worth of bank statements is often accepted as adequate documentation of one's bank account. Perhaps even less than a year's worth would do.

My sense is that a person with inadequate income is also going to have an inadequate bank balance, and a person with adequate income does not need to rely on assets. So rarely is bank information going to be an important issue.

Yodrak

I honestly don't think it's that important. I have beenbugging my bank for over a month now to get them to write the letter regarding my bank account. They have been IMPOSIBLE. They kept telling me I should get it in a couple of days and I never did. I finally gave up and decided to just go ahead and only include the last couple of bank statements. I also included recent pay stubs and an original hire letter which clearly stated my starting salary (also had an issue getting an employer letter). I was told that I should be ok.

Oh and I finally got the letter from my bank today, only a month late.

Thanks for all the input guys. We'll try a couple of different approaches and see what happens. I just hope it gets done soon enough. I kind of held off on getting stuff, not wanting things to be too outdated and I'm hoping I haven't waited too long, but anyway. Thanks again. You all have been a big help.

My bank would not put my years worth of bank deposits on the letter either, they just downright refused, even though I had the past twelve months bank statements in hand, tabulated for them with the total on the front of the first statement. No work for them or anything, yet they still refused, so what I did, was just attached the bank letter to the years worth of bank statement, with the tabulation of the year's worth of deposits to the bank statements. This is all I could do, hopefully it will suffice.

Hmmm...
I asked my two local branch bank managers for signed, letterhead statements to include the following:
1.) when my savings accounts first opened and their starting amounts (I didn't bother with checking account)
2.) current balances
They typed them up and signed while I waited. Took about 10 minutes. The letterhead and signature is in lieu of putting sensitive financial account numbers on yet another document, (I had a business checking account raided once and learned things the hard way). I was told this would be satisfactory and have not heard different since. Any bank who can't provide you with such a simple service has lost track of how to deal with customers. P.S. don't request this of a teller and don't request by mail - do it in person or on the phone to a bank officer. Good luck.
Richard of Richard&Maria

We had the same problem too, and as Rob was living and working in Ireland, his bank was an Irish one...who had never heard of such a "crazy" request. We gave them all the figures and even a template to copy.

In the end we had to threaten to move banks if our request wasn't met...2 days later we had the letter! Rob played good guy and I played bad guy