RFE: Lease agreement and Affidavits?

[allyrose 31]

Hi everyone, 

 

Last week my husband and I got an RFE for his green card asking to prove the validity of the marriage. We are in the process of getting the evidence together and have some questions that we can't find answers to. First of all, one of the suggested documents in the letter was a lease/rental agreement showing we both pay rent and live in the same place. We live with my mother who rents the house, and we give her money towards her rent and bills every month. We don't have utility, phone, or internet bills addressed to us because she is the one renting the house. Does anyone know of a template for something like that? We want it in writing stating we pay her rent, but we also don't want to write up a lease agreement because she's not really sub-leasing the rooms. We live with her, we aren't her roommates but we do pay her to live here. How can we get this down in a way that is acceptable to UCSIS? 

 

Also, one of the other suggested documents are affidavits from people that know us certifying we are a couple and that they have known us. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to structure those document as well? Is it just a sort of letter? 

 

We are in the process of transferring one of the car titles to both our names, and are opening a joint bank account as soon as our bank opens (damage from Irma) and we are both authorized on each other's credit cards and have pictures of each card with the same number on it with our names on each one. We also have a flight itinerary from when we traveled together to RI and several pictures of us at a wedding we attended. We are not in a financial position to do much else- do you all think that evidence will be enough? Getting tired of proving to strangers that our love is real. Thanks.   

[Wuozopo 4,285]

37 minutes ago, allyrose said:

Getting tired of proving to strangers that our love is real. Thanks.   

 

They don't want to know you are in love. They want to know you live at the same address. 😛 Do you both have driver licenses showing same address. Got the wedding invitation envelope addresses to both of you at same address? Copy invitation, envelope, and photo on same page.

 

Mom can write an affidavit saying she attended your wedding at [place] on [date]. 

You have lived with her at [address] since [date] and share a bedroom. 

You pay $___ /month to her for expenses and she pays all the utility bills. 

She is aware you travelled together to RI because she drove you to the airport. 

She can say she can tell you love each other very much...embellish a bit.

That kind of info in letter style that sounds like a sincere mom wrote it, not some lawyer with a template.

 

[allyrose 31]

2 hours ago, Wuozopo said:

 

They don't want to know you are in love. They want to know you live at the same address. 😛 Do you both have driver licenses showing same address. Got the wedding invitation envelope addresses to both of you at same address? Copy invitation, envelope, and photo on same page.

 

Mom can write an affidavit saying she attended your wedding at [place] on [date]. 

You have lived with her at [address] since [date] and share a bedroom. 

You pay $___ /month to her for expenses and she pays all the utility bills. 

She is aware you travelled together to RI because she drove you to the airport. 

She can say she can tell you love each other very much...embellish a bit.

That kind of info in letter style that sounds like a sincere mom wrote it, not some lawyer with a template.

 

Thanks! We didn't have a ceremony yet though. Just city hall so no one attended but us. My mom did notarize the certificate though. Do you have any advice on how to word this affidavit? Are they supposed to be mushy or more formal? So far no one has been able to help with wording or anything haha