O.K. to highlight evidence documents for I-751?

[mikellen 0]

Hello all, I know this may be a silly question but I'd like to ask it anyway.

Is it O.K. to use a yellow highlighter to highlight my wife's and I names and address on our evidence documents and statements?

So far we complied the following documents for our I-751:

2008 tax return. (If we can get our 2009 taxes prepared we will include them also)

Lease renewal agreements

Credit card account statements for each month since the conditional greencard was granted (May 15, 2008)

Phone, Cable, and Electricity statements for month since Jan. 2009 (Cannot access prior statements)

Investment accounts (2) Yearly statements

Checking account statement

Beneficiary form from my wife's employment stating that I am the beneficiary.

Beneficiary form from my wife's newly acquired Roth IRA account stating that I am the beneficiary.

Vehicle title showing joint ownership from car purchased after conditional greencard was approved.

Auto Insurance Declarations for last 2 years showing both names covered

Copies of plane tickets, flight details, Vacation passes such as Universal Orlando

Pictures associated with vacations, friends, and family.

On each of those document and statements have our names and address on them of course. I thought it would help the USCIS investigator/reviewer

if our names and address were highlighted just to make it easier for him or her to locate it on the documents/statements.

Has anyone else done this and if so was there any problem with highlighting? Is it recommended to highlight?

Is there any negative or positive associations with highlighting?

Thanks.

[payxibka 10,045]

I did it

[mikellen 0]

I did it

Did you receive the Permanent Resident card already or are you still waiting for it?

Thanks.

[payxibka 10,045]

A quick review of my VJ timeline would indicate the ROC petition was approved a few months ago

[chaplin 0]

We highlighted as well.

Edited January 18, 2010 by chaplin

[parker101 1]

Great idea to highlight so that the officer can see quickly and he will see that you are organize and that he does not have to dig to find things; ie less hassel and maybe approved without interview.

[v333k 59]

I highlighted in a similar fashion, still waiting on my approval!

[franticsky 0]

Hello all, I know this may be a silly question but I'd like to ask it anyway.

Is it O.K. to use a yellow highlighter to highlight my wife's and I names and address on our evidence documents and statements?

So far we complied the following documents for our I-751:

2008 tax return. (If we can get our 2009 taxes prepared we will include them also)

Lease renewal agreements

Credit card account statements for each month since the conditional greencard was granted (May 15, 2008)

Phone, Cable, and Electricity statements for month since Jan. 2009 (Cannot access prior statements)

Investment accounts (2) Yearly statements

Checking account statement

Beneficiary form from my wife's employment stating that I am the beneficiary.

Beneficiary form from my wife's newly acquired Roth IRA account stating that I am the beneficiary.

Vehicle title showing joint ownership from car purchased after conditional greencard was approved.

Auto Insurance Declarations for last 2 years showing both names covered

Copies of plane tickets, flight details, Vacation passes such as Universal Orlando

Pictures associated with vacations, friends, and family.

On each of those document and statements have our names and address on them of course. I thought it would help the USCIS investigator/reviewer

if our names and address were highlighted just to make it easier for him or her to locate it on the documents/statements.

Has anyone else done this and if so was there any problem with highlighting? Is it recommended to highlight?

Is there any negative or positive associations with highlighting?

Thanks.

Yes , you may highlight it , I did it , and it is recomended by lawyers too

I highlighted in a similar fashion, still waiting on my approval!

did you notice any updates to ur case after your fingerprinting ?

[sh18 3]

I never heard of highlighting and haven't done it, already approved though.

Go v333k go!

Edited January 18, 2010 by sh18

[bora bora 1]

Hello all, I know this may be a silly question but I'd like to ask it anyway.

Is it O.K. to use a yellow highlighter to highlight my wife's and I names and address on our evidence documents and statements?

So far we complied the following documents for our I-751:

2008 tax return. (If we can get our 2009 taxes prepared we will include them also)

Lease renewal agreements

Credit card account statements for each month since the conditional greencard was granted (May 15, 2008)

Phone, Cable, and Electricity statements for month since Jan. 2009 (Cannot access prior statements)

Investment accounts (2) Yearly statements

Checking account statement

Beneficiary form from my wife's employment stating that I am the beneficiary.

Beneficiary form from my wife's newly acquired Roth IRA account stating that I am the beneficiary.

Vehicle title showing joint ownership from car purchased after conditional greencard was approved.

Auto Insurance Declarations for last 2 years showing both names covered

Copies of plane tickets, flight details, Vacation passes such as Universal Orlando

Pictures associated with vacations, friends, and family.

On each of those document and statements have our names and address on them of course. I thought it would help the USCIS investigator/reviewer

if our names and address were highlighted just to make it easier for him or her to locate it on the documents/statements.

Has anyone else done this and if so was there any problem with highlighting? Is it recommended to highlight?

Is there any negative or positive associations with highlighting?

Thanks.

I also highlighted information included as proof (and even wrote a quick note). We are still waiting for an approval, but so far so good. *knocks on wood

We DID highlight information on our K1 (and probably the AOS, though I don't remember) and we had no problems with either application.

[karmasxocean 0]

We didn't highlight anything, but we sent a cover sheet for each different section of evidence labeling what it was. For example, I sent in our rental rental agreements with a sheet on top stating it was out rental agreements and a note of the times we lived there. I did that for each seprate piece of evidence because to me, it looked cleaner and more organized....but I just sent ours in a couple days ago, so I don't know if it helped.

[mikellen 0]

THanks for all the responses. It appears highlighting is o.k. then. I'm glad I don't have to redo any copying.

One other thing though; On the financial documents, is it recommended to blacken out the account number ,or leave it visible?

I understand leaving the dollar amounts will help the investigator to have an idea of how much money my wife and I have

together but leaving the account number visible leaves us open to any unscrupulous person who has all of that sensitive information.

I'm already a victim of identity theft and I'm just overly cautious now. I realize gaining permanent residence for my wife is a priority

and do not want to jeopardize in any way the success of permanent residency approval, so I definitely will leave our account number visible

if helpful.

Any thoughts?

[Yurika & Jim 77]

THanks for all the responses. It appears highlighting is o.k. then. I'm glad I don't have to redo any copying.

One other thing though; On the financial documents, is it recommended to blacken out the account number ,or leave it visible?

I understand leaving the dollar amounts will help the investigator to have an idea of how much money my wife and I have

together but leaving the account number visible leaves us open to any unscrupulous person who has all of that sensitive information.

I'm already a victim of identity theft and I'm just overly cautious now. I realize gaining permanent residence for my wife is a priority

and do not want to jeopardize in any way the success of permanent residency approval, so I definitely will leave our account number visible

if helpful.

Any thoughts?

I saw someone got RFE for blacking out their bank account number or amounts... I would leave it.

[parker101 1]

YES I will black out the account#, recomended by some lawyers too. I cant believe they RFE for that! in addition a cover letter is usually a good idea too.

[bora bora 1]

I saw someone got RFE for blacking out their bank account number or amounts... I would leave it.

Really?

I've blacked out account numbers on proof from the AOS to now and didn't have any issues with AOS (we're still in the process of ROC). That seems strange - I wonder if that couple went crazy with blacking out information and that skewed their proof.

I blacked out our balance on credit card and bank information, but left the rest - account numbers, our names, address, etc.