RFE - is bold typed word all they are looking for?

[MinkKC 0]

We just received an RFE on our I-751. It included a page asking for evidence of good faith marriage that lists all the generic potential items that could be included. They bold typed the phrase "transaction pages" on the bank statement section. We had included just the first pages of multiple statements as our packet was getting pretty thick and I thought I had read on here that that was enough. So, is that all they want? Or should I try to round up anything else even though i think we gave them a lot?

[bubbley 1]

I think you should give them everything they ask for, when I first applied I had submitted all the evidence that I could and then got an RFE about 9 months later for the same things that I had submitted. So I submitted everything again, and some other things that I hadn't been able to get before, I don't think that you can ever have too much evidence, and lets be honest here, sometimes they can misplace documents too, just make sure you copy everything before you send it off in case you get called for an interview and they need to see it again. Good Luck!

[Leenie 15]

Argh, I only did the first pages of bank statements as well. Argh argh. We've never gotten an RFE before, so I don't know the answer to your question, but I am curious to see others' opinions.

[bigdog 376]

Assume they know nothing about you and submit everything to make your selves known to a stranger. Be complete to avoid delays.

[MinkKC 0]

We sent in our RFE before we got any responses on here, and we did send a bit more, although we thought we had been as thorough as we could. Unfortunately, I had owned my home for 7 years prior to marriage and am still underwater on it and so we haven't been able to refinance our mortgage under both our names, and I think that is a biggie with them. I had to call customer service about another issue (petition type on RFE was wrong!) and asked the agent what she thought about the transaction pages being bolded, and at first she said that was likely all they were interested in and that they might get annoyed if we sent too much, but then she backtracked and said that it wouldn't hurt to send extra. She expressed some frustration that sometimes they are very vague on what they are looking for, and other times they are very specific. Ours was of course vague. It was obviously a generic list of evidence of good faith marriage and listed lots of stuff we had already sent in, so I am sure they didn't want all of what was listed. Interestingly, in trying to research this I found a post that talked about them being RFE happy if they are behind. Our RFE was post-marked 6 months and 1 day to the date they had received our application, so I am guessing part of it could be that they wanted to keep the numbers looking good since they state a 6 month processing time for the CSC on their website. If they had looked through our whole packet, I can't imagine they could reasonably say we didn't provide enough evidence. So I suspect giving a quick RFE for lacking all the transaction pages on our joint bank account (one of the first things we had included) kept the numbers looking good.

[Leenie 15]

Yikes, that is a little scary that they would do that. But I am not too surprised.