affidavits

[milleniumgirl 0]

Hi, here we go again...the green card expires in august,we almost have all the documents we need, but the witnesses affidavits...we are not living in the state where we got married,so we are living in a place where nobody knows us from the beggining of our marriage, this makes me feel worried.

There is a few people at my husband,s work who may help us, a friend of him (whose wife is a weirdo...cause she doesn't even return my phone calls)and maybe his boss, they have seen me going to visit my husband at work several times to bring him his lunch, to buy some groceries, sometimes I have exchanged a few words with his boss,etc and things like that) but well we have not gone out with them (you know to have dinner or to the movies or to visit each other house...etc)I was reading the examples of the letters and well none of those situations fit ours...plus our life is kind of isolated...my husband works days and nights, I work days and nights during the weekends and well we don't really have time to have friends or have fun going out ourselves very often or with other people and things like that...we spent our christmas at home him and I , for new year and similar parties I had to work, also some of his family who may have helped us was the reason for us to move us out away from the state where we got married and the reason to move us out of the damn town close to where we live now(long story) so we won't ask them for help, I have been thinking in something else that could help us to prove that our marriage is true ...and God it is true!!!! with all the troubles that we have been going through and we are still together, haha...well out of jokes, what can we do?any suggestions about what should we do?we have been married for almost 3 years but we don't have children, the first year we were pregnant but it didn't end up well , since then we have not tried it again and based on a mutual decision we don't want to try yet. I mention this because I have been reading some postings and some couples don't have witnesses but they do have children and this kind of help them, well in our case we don't have babies, so I don't know what else could help us to prove our marriage is true.(the rest of the documents are ok, joint account, bills and letter with our names on it, loan with our names, filled out taxes together,etc)

[Illinois 0]

I'm sharing information about the letters we sent. I am not sure if they play a big role, but rather add to the overall evidence.

Three letters

1) We forgot these letters were to be notarized. None of them were, although they had the writers' information.

2) First from MIL who lives in-state, and whom we see very frequently (every other week or more most months)

3) One couple who live in another state, whom we see maybe once a year, write/call frequestly, but who have known us from day one

4) Another couple who live in the state, in another town, see each other maybe 4-5 times a year, write/call frequestly, but who also have known us as a couple from the start

Did not include any from friends who are in town.

If you can get letters from friends in your original place of residence, who still keep in touch, I'd say include them.

We sent a decent amount of financial evidence (lease/bills/tax/various accounts) & some pictures & cards from friends & family.

For what it is worth, our petition was approved (after 14 months at NSC).

Good Luck!

[bettenan 1]

Hi, here we go again...the green card expires in august,we almost have all the documents we need, but the witnesses affidavits...we are not living in the state where we got married,so we are living in a place where nobody knows us from the beggining of our marriage, this makes me feel worried.

There is a few people at my husband,s work who may help us, a friend of him (whose wife is a weirdo...cause she doesn't even return my phone calls)and maybe his boss, they have seen me going to visit my husband at work several times to bring him his lunch, to buy some groceries, sometimes I have exchanged a few words with his boss,etc and things like that) but well we have not gone out with them (you know to have dinner or to the movies or to visit each other house...etc)I was reading the examples of the letters and well none of those situations fit ours...plus our life is kind of isolated...my husband works days and nights, I work days and nights during the weekends and well we don't really have time to have friends or have fun going out ourselves very often or with other people and things like that...we spent our christmas at home him and I , for new year and similar parties I had to work, also some of his family who may have helped us was the reason for us to move us out away from the state where we got married and the reason to move us out of the damn town close to where we live now(long story) so we won't ask them for help, I have been thinking in something else that could help us to prove that our marriage is true ...and God it is true!!!! with all the troubles that we have been going through and we are still together, haha...well out of jokes, what can we do?any suggestions about what should we do?we have been married for almost 3 years but we don't have children, the first year we were pregnant but it didn't end up well , since then we have not tried it again and based on a mutual decision we don't want to try yet. I mention this because I have been reading some postings and some couples don't have witnesses but they do have children and this kind of help them, well in our case we don't have babies, so I don't know what else could help us to prove our marriage is true.(the rest of the documents are ok, joint account, bills and letter with our names on it, loan with our names, filled out taxes together,etc)

We live in the same town where we were married and do have friends that could provided affidavits but chose not to, we also don't have children together. We have strong financials and will go with affidavits if we gt an RFE. I will suggest that you get transcripts from the IRS, and don't only send copies of your returns and make sure to send "history" of bank accounts....an earlier statement and an recent statement from the same joint account.

good luck

[motu 5]

I do not think the affidavits prove anything (my opinion) and didn't send any. We do have a lot of financial (bank, credit cards, insurance etc) and social evidence (pictures). I would say you shouldn't worry too much - send what you have and what you feel comfortable with. You can deal with an RFE if it happens - but I doubt it will be for this. Good Luck