Hello! I sent in my I751 with all the information I felt that they needed. I thought they wanted proof that we were still together so I sent our current lease, current bank statements etc. They came back to me and said

"The majority of the evidence submitted to support your petition does not span the entire period of your marriage in sufficient detail" "These do not cover the span of the marriage and are not concrete evidence of a bona fide marriage"

I was shocked, I guess I was a little too confident in what I sent because I and all who know us know that we are a legit couple.

Anyways, they gave me a big old long list of things to submit. I am trying to just bombard them with information. All our leases since marriage, bank statements, birth certificate of child, insurance info and signed affidavits.
But this all makes me nervous that I still won't give them what they need.

Did any one else experience this??

you didn't send the birth certificate the first time around?? that is a big piece of evidence...

you don't need to send every bank statemen etc... I would send a couple... like one or two from the beginning, one or two from the middle and one or two from the present

The instructions do say to send evidence spanning the time since you were married to the present day.....



Sorry to hear you are having to send additional evidence....

Kez

We sent bank statements from each quarter since we got married (e.g. March, June, September, December). We didn't get an actual lease though until May of this year. Our previous landlord had us on month to month with no lease. We got him to do one of our affidavits. Hopefully that will be enough to mitigate that issue.

Sounds like a good plan - although usually people don't send every month, but just a few statements to cover the whole period, I believe it's different once RFE'd.
Make sure the copy of your child's birth certificate is on top of your stack. It's probably your most valuable evidence.

Good luck!

That's what I want to know. I'd be stunned to find they issued an RFE despite the birth certificate.

Good to know... me, being the obsessive I am, have already started a Removing Conditions package since today after reading your post: they want documents??? they'll get some and more!
Sorry about your RFE and thanks for the post~~~

Well, here is what happened. After my daughter was born, I kept waiting for the certificate. Turned out the state had stopped automatically sending them. In the meantime I sent my packet without it and ordered the birth certificate. When it came, I sent it under different cover, with a copy of the original letter from them. Obviously they did not get it, or it got lost in the pile. Thanks for the advice to all though, I will put it right on top!

Here is what I have so far:
Birth Certificate (born Feb of this year)
2004, 2005, 2006 taxes from US as well as IRS transcripts
Bank statements spanning different periods of time ( see note below about this)
Joint vehicle title and all registration documents (thought I had already sent this)
Got docs from my old employer, where I claim spouse for withholdings, named him as benificiary for 401k (although I did not contribute anything), insurance for changing my medical insurance users because of the birth of my daughter, adding her to employee and spouse plan
Dental insurance cards, stating spouse in plan
Medical recipts from insurance provider of my husband using my plan
All former leases
I will get two affidavits.

Here is my problem with the bank statements. It turns out that either by a mistake by the bank or some terrible over sight by us, I may have never been put as a joint user on the account...we are sorting this out with the bank because we had checks in both of our names, so it would appear that our account was joint and the bank slipped up. Anyways, we are working on this. I could kick myself because if I had of known about all of this stuff I would have made absolutely sure our names were one EVERYTHING!

What should the affivadits have in them for those that have done them...can the people say that they have knowledge of a loving relationship and all that or is that too mushy for them??

Did you submit letters from friends?

Not the first time, I didn't know you could. Aren't those the same as sending affidavits from people that have known us since entry into the country?

I am getting two of those.

Melissa