About ready to send, does cover letter and package content look good?

[sdchargers 0]

Hi All,

About ready to send the package off!

Could you please let me know if the cover letter and contents look good:

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11/21/2012

USCIS California Service Center

P.O. Box 10751

Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-1075

RE: I-751 JOINT PETITION TO REMOVE CONDITIONS ON RESIDENCE OF:

Name, xxxxxx

To whom it may concern,

Enclosed please find a JOINT I-751 petition for removal of conditions of permanent resident status regarding Name. Name was awarded Adjustment of Status to Conditional Permanent Residence on xxxxxx.

We are happily living together and jointly request that this petition be accepted for removal of conditions on the residence of Name.

Contents include the following documents, constituting a petition for the Removal of Conditions on the Residence of Name.

• Completed I-751 JOINT Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence.

• Check for $590 to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

• Photocopy of both sides of Names’s Permanent Resident Card.

Enclosed please also find the following documents to verify the status of our marriage and ongoing relationship:

• Copies or our renewal lease agreement and original agreement for our current address. Copies of our lease agreement from our previous address

• Copies of our renter’s insurance summary for current and previous address

• Copy or our IRS return transcripts for 2010 and 2011

• Copy of our joint debit and credit cards from Chase. Copy of our credit cards from Bank Of America

• Copies of the summary of our Chase joint checking account statements

• Copies of current and previous car insurance, health insurance, dental insurance cards

• Copies of gas/electric bills

• Copies of Verizon bills for our family plan

• Copies of pictures taken with our families and during vacation

• Copy of our change of address confirmation from USPS

• Copy of flight itineraries for our trips back to France to see our families and from our vacation

• Copy of our Costco membership card

Please advise me if you have any further questions or problems related to this petition.

Sincerely,

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I've checked the accuracy of all docs, signed everything so if you think it's all good, I'll include all this in an envelope and send off via USPS Express mail with delivery confirmation and waive the signature requirement. Is that the best way.

Thanks all and happy Thanksgiving!!!

[amykathleen2005 441]

Looks good to me!

[bigdog 376]

We included our passports, life insurance also.

[DebbyNSeyi 15]

Looks good...just want to suggest some additional docs that you might want to include if applicable. Copies of Drivers Licenses to show same address, copies of library cards, any kids? if so, copy of birth certificate, any affidavits from family/friends attesting to your ongoing relationship and marriage? Any joint titles on cars?

[lbounds 16]

I think I've seen a lot of people sending 3 years tax records though I don't know if its really required. I was planning on sending in 3 years myself.

[Stephen + Elisha 92]

Looks good to me too... you have pretty much everything we did, and we were recently approved without an interview.

We included our passports, life insurance also.

Passports might be good if you have entry/exit stamps showing trip(s) taken together... if not, probably not needed. Any insurance policy showing joint coverage or designation of spouse as beneficiary is good.

Looks good...just want to suggest some additional docs that you might want to include if applicable. Copies of Drivers Licenses to show same address, copies of library cards, any kids? if so, copy of birth certificate, any affidavits from family/friends attesting to your ongoing relationship and marriage? Any joint titles on cars?

We also sent our daughter's birth certificate, as well as her baptismal certificate and health insurance coverage info showing both my wife (the GC holder) and our daughter as covered dependents on my policy. Affidavits aren't considered particularly strong evidence (see the "I-751 evidence" pinned thread at the top of the forum); you can probably skip them if you have lots of other primary evidence showing cohabitation, intermingling of finances, etc. While they can't hurt, I wouldn't expend a ton of effort on them.

I think I've seen a lot of people sending 3 years tax records though I don't know if its really required. I was planning on sending in 3 years myself.

If you have three years of joint tax filings, it can't hurt to send all three. It all depends on the timing of the marriage and the ROC filing window. In our case, our ROC filing window fell before our 2012 tax filing so we were only able to send two years' worth.

[sdchargers 0]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your awesome advice!

In terms of tax returns, 2010 and 2011 were the only years we had income and had to file, which are the returns we incluuded. Also, before that we both lived abroad so didn't have to file. Regarding the passports, do you recommend copying the visa section with the entry stamps? We do have trips overseas together so we can definitely do that! I know I'm terrible but I haven't enrolled in any life insurance yet, and our drivers license doesn't show the same address (mine shows our previous address and my wife's shows the current address). Same for car titles, since I applied for financing for the car alone (since my wife didn't have a drivers license at that time and the bank didn't let her join me in the application) it wouldn't show both our names

What we do have is car registrations one with her name for her car and one with my name for my car showing the same address. Would that help?

No kids so far, although we should be able to have that evidence for naturalization As far as affidavits, I remember seeing that they were not needed as long as there was a lot of primary evidence as well. Based on the documents we're including, do you think we should add? It would delay the filing so we might want to skip if that's OK?

Once again, thank you so much for your help!