Inquiry re: Bank Statements/Letter & ITR

[mkatt8 0]

Hi. I am getting ready for my K1 interview and my fiance is about to send over documents needed for my interview.

My question is .... Is it okay if my fiance blocks out his SSN on his ITR and his bank account number on his bank certificate? For personal reasons, of course.

I hope to hear your thoughts about this and thank you for your time.

Best regards.

[adiiann 163]

Hi. I am getting ready for my K1 interview and my fiance is about to send over documents needed for my interview.

My question is .... Is it okay if my fiance blocks out his SSN on his ITR and his bank account number on his bank certificate? For personal reasons, of course.

I hope to hear your thoughts about this and thank you for your time.

Best regards.

Yep! I did that too.... I blocked all documents that have SSN..... as well as his passport number... I didn't have problem......

[mkatt8 0]

Hi. I am getting ready for my K1 interview and my fiance is about to send over documents needed for my interview.

My question is .... Is it okay if my fiance blocks out his SSN on his ITR and his bank account number on his bank certificate? For personal reasons, of course.

I hope to hear your thoughts about this and thank you for your time.

Best regards.

Yep! I did that too.... I blocked all documents that have SSN..... as well as his passport number... I didn't have problem......

My fiance would be pleased to hear that then. Thank you so much for your quick reply adiiann.

[-B&T- 1]

I think it's pretty pointless to black out important informations on the documents.USCIS is working with the FBI and some people would even put highlights on their documents so it will be easy for the adjudicators to read/find those important infos.They need to verify the validity of the documents you are going to submit and hiding account numbers/SSN would just cause delays they might send you RFE for it.Good luck.

[MikenKyhen 0]

There's no need to block out the SS number. They already have that on documents that your fiance has had to send anyway. I would however and did block out all my account numbers, routing numbers etc..There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that they would need that for. As long as they have the ITR's, W2's. letter from employer and the letter from the bank with the requested info from the I-134 you will be fine. Good luck.

Mike

[mkatt8 0]

I think it's pretty pointless to black out important informations on the documents.USCIS is working with the FBI and some people would even put highlights on their documents so it will be easy for the adjudicators to read/find those important infos.They need to verify the validity of the documents you are going to submit and hiding account numbers/SSN would just cause delays they might send you RFE for it.Good luck.

Hi Bituin, what you just said are my exact sentiments but I cannot blame my fiance for having second thoughts whether or not he should block his SSN for identity theft purposes because it just happened to him recently. I guess, my fiance would make this as an exception. Plus an RFE being given is not what we would want to happen to us.

Many thanks for your advise Bituin. Cheers!

[adiiann 163]

I am not being paranoid.... but I understand the fear of USC regarding their identity number.... because it will cause them a huge problem once someone use it for fraud.

Hehehe... I watched it from crime and investigation network.... someone can stole identity through SSN and other sensitive infos... Though, FBI is working with USCIS, there's still loopholes everywhere.

So.... its better not to divulge any sensitive infos...

[mkatt8 0]

There's no need to block out the SS number. They already have that on documents that your fiance has had to send anyway. I would however and did block out all my account numbers, routing numbers etc..There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that they would need that for. As long as they have the ITR's, W2's. letter from employer and the letter from the bank with the requested info from the I-134 you will be fine. Good luck.

Mike

Hi Mike, I personally did not want to block out any details such as his SSN and bank account numbers because I wouldn't want the pre-screener nor the consul to use that against us. I would want everything flawless as much as possible. I have his ITR's, letter from employer, letters from the banks, stocks and bonds but we don't have any W2s to show because he took a well earned vacation previous years. Plus my fiance just started working this December of 2008. I hope his not having W2s will not be a problem since we have letters from his banks showing that he has more than enough funds.

I really hope and pray for a positive outcome on our interview day.

Thank you very much Mike for responding to my inquiry.