Received RFE for I 751 Removal of Conditions, what else is there to send??

[Jamileh 0]

Hello VJ-

In March 2015 I sent in a very large packet of evidence for my husbands request for removal of conditions. On July 14th the online status update changed to say that his name had been updated and today we received a request for evidence. Honestly, I have no idea what else I can do or send so please, let me know if anyone else has been in a similar situation. Any advice will help us.

Here's what I sent along with the I-751:

1. Personal Check (from my account) of $590 for I-751 filing fee and biometrics.
2. Form I-751 Petition to Remove Conditions on Resident, signed by my husband and myself.
3. Copy of the passport and green card of my husband.
4. Two sworn affidavits attesting to our relationship and marriage by my sister and a friend, who are both US citizens.
5. Copy of our 2012 and 2013 Tax Statements, which we filed jointly.
6. Copy of my husband’s ITIN approval and request to merge with social security number.
7. Copy of the lease of our apartment where my husband and I share residency with my sister. The lease includes my sister and I as the tenant and the rental agreement was established a year before my husband’s conditional residency was approved. We have remained at this residence.
8. Copy of the letters which accompanied our dental and vision insurance cards showing a joint policy.
9. Copies of our dental insurance statements mailed to our joint residency.
10. Copy of an appointment reminder from our optometrist mailed to our joint residency.
11. Copy of our joint car insurance policy.
12. Copy of a payment confirmation where I paid for my husband’s health insurance along with various letters and statements mailed to our apartment.
13. Copy of a form designating my husband, as the beneficiary of my retirement plan.
14. Copy of the Family Plan (cell phones); my sister is the account holder and the plan is shared by my family, my husband and myself.
15. Copy of various Pacific Gas and Energy Statements (utility) for our shared apartment; I am the account holder.
16. Copy of e-mail notifications from the bank when my husband and I have transferred money to each other.
17. Copy of e-mail notifications from Western Union where I sent money to my husband’s mother, prior to my husband established employment. My mother-in-law became the primary caregiver for my husband’s son/my stepson, after my husband immigrated to the US.
18. Copy of our airline reservations and tickets for a vacation we took in the summer of 2014 to visit his son/my stepson and family.
19. Copy of our joint gym agreement.
20. Copy of my husband’s pay stubs, which list our shared residence.
21. Copy of cards we received from family and friends addressed to my husband and myself.
22. Copy of cards my husband and myself have exchanged for holidays and birthdays.
23. Copy of our “friendship timeline” on Facebook (social media).
24. Copy of photo strips; one taken at a friends wedding and the other at a shopping mall.
25. Photo album (pink) with pictures of the two of us together along with friends and family; photos date from April 2013 to present. (200+ photos)

Here's what the RFE indicates is missing (Good Faith Marriage):

• Birth certificates of kids (In May we submitted the I-130 for my stepson to come live with us in the US and decided to hold off on kids until he is here)
• Joint bank accounts and statements (We never saw this as a necessity, in retrospect we should have done so just for this, but we know each others passwords and both use the same bank so we just transfer money to each other, we provided proof of those transfers)
• Copies of mortgages/property deeds (We are renters)
• Copy of insurance policies i.e. life insurance (We do not have life insurance, we share car insurance and he is the beneficiary on my retirement plan)
• Copy of credit card statements (We have separate accounts- my husband just started a job that would pay him enough to get a CC)
• Loan Documents (I just bough my first car in January, my husband has zero credit, he was not listed on the loan)
• Rental agreements with our names (explained in original cover letter that the rental agreement was established before he came to the US)
• Copies of utilities (since my sister and I lived in the apt before he came, the Comcast (internet/phone/cable) and the PGE are in our names.)
• Any other documents which shows that the marriage was not entered to circumvent US immigration law (stumped)

Thank you for reading, let me know if you have any insights or suggestions.

-Jamileh

[KayDeeCee 4,891]

~ Moved from AOS from Family Based Visas to Removing Conditions - topic is filing ROC, not AOS ~

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Power of attorney, wills, living will are strong points. Life insurance for a small policy leaving each other as beneficiary can be had for about

$20 a month.

[Pitaya 2,576]

Agree with above, wills, DPOA, Living Wills, are good things now and later on in life. Here is a link to several similar-themed ROC-RFE threads: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/557945-i-751-more-evidence/ After our RFE, we included anything that looked like a "marriage bona fide" that had been done since the inception of the marriage, except the kitchen sink.

Good luck on your immigration journey.

[NikLR 13,220]

I see the major things missing. Sure you are showing you share a residence but you don't show any joint bank accounts, joint credit cards, joint loans or a joint lease (you said your sister and you are the tenants.) You need those things, wills, LPOA, etc...

You need more financial co-mingling and other important documents.

[Jamileh 0]

Thanks for the initial responses. I can definitely get the life insurance, power of attorney and the will but would it matter if it was initiated after the RFE?

Outside of transferring money and paying for things for each other its difficult to show mingling of finances without the joint bank account.

Have any of you ever received a RFE, and in response to the RFE establish bank accounts, wills, life insurance, etc and then were approved?

[TBoneTX 43,019]

Have any of you ever received a RFE, and in response to the RFE establish bank accounts, wills, life insurance, etc and then were approved?

It happens often. Do it all without a second thought.

In the highly unlikely event that you're called for an interview and are questioned about it, say "We were casual about these things earlier, but you can see that we got serious, because these are important things to have in life."

[minh6969 1]

I'm a little bit confused about send Credit Card statements as evidence.

Since credit card is issued only to one individual, how could we show uscis that the credit card is something joint?

[KayDeeCee 4,891]

I'm a little bit confused about send Credit Card statements as evidence.

Since credit card is issued only to one individual, how could we show uscis that the credit card is something joint?

If the statements do not list both names as a joint account, then is there is something from the account that shows both names? Print that out and you can also provide copies of both cards. Black out all but the last 4 numbers to show they are the same account in both names.