How long we wait after marriage

[Owais 0]

Hi,

Me on (F-1 VISA) and my wife(U.S Citizen) recently got married and we wanna start with the application but while looking at the instructions of i130 it says that we should send documents like lease agreement, joint bank account statements/ joint credit card statements and others. We have just opened joint accounts and our lease agreement is pretty recent 2. We have also put our joint names on other bills pretty recently. Should we wait before we have couple of statements from the bank and other bill statements or can we submit the forms right now with whatever we have (like affidavit sworn) and take these statements to the interview later?

Thanks,

OS

[Candy/SadanNasir 2]

Hi,

Me on (F-1 VISA) and my wife(U.S Citizen) recently got married and we wanna start with the application but while looking at the instructions of i130 it says that we should send documents like lease agreement, joint bank account statements/ joint credit card statements and others. We have just opened joint accounts and our lease agreement is pretty recent 2. We have also put our joint names on other bills pretty recently. Should we wait before we have couple of statements from the bank and other bill statements or can we submit the forms right now with whatever we have (like affidavit sworn) and take these statements to the interview later?

Thanks,

OS

I would send anything with both your names on it. It would make sense to anyone reviewing your case that you won't have a ton of joint stuff to submit given you just married.

We only had a joint bank account, and documentation of my name change, in addition to photos, sworn affidavits etc. and our I-130 got approved just fine with no RFE.