Questions before filing (split topic)

[Puckoon 0]

Hello All,

Glad to hear so many success stories on this thread. We are preparing to file for my ROC (90 day window begins Feb 29).

We have many documents to present to the men in black:

Joint bank account

Joint tax Returns

Vacation airline tickets

Pictures

Affidavits (btw - do these need to be notarized?)

Country club contract for my family (myself, wife, daughter)

Life insurance benificiary evidence

Evidence of each other as emergency contacts at places of work etc..

My question is this - We have not bought anything jointly, or opened any credit cards jointly in this time. We haven't needed to, or wanted to. We have not transferred any of our regular bills to include each others names - nothing has really changed in our life other than our joint bank account. Will we be penalized from a standpoint of not having enough evidence? No new cars, no new houses etc. In fact - it is the house I wish to discuss here.

We live in a house owned by my parents. They plan to transfer the house to both of us in May 2013. If we expedited the transfer into our names now - would that be an added security in the eyes of the immigration folks? We do not pay rent currently - so have no evidence of paying that bill together.

[Ryan H 3,813]

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[victorian221b 12]

Here are a few things you may want to think about:

1) Regarding your bills, are some of bills to you and some to your spouse but to the same address? If you so, make sure it covers the entire duration of your marriage and you should be good. You don't absolutely need to have both names on the bills but it shows shared responsibilities if the bills are split between you two.

2) Regarding the house, expedite all you want. USCIS will not know what your plans are. The most important thing, I personally think, they want to see is that you trust each other enough to be included in something big like owning property together.

3) Affidavits, as some would argue, are secondary evidences as anyone can write them. For this reason, the argument is getting a notarized affidavit would not have made any difference. However, I got mine notarized anyways whether or not that would've held any weight.

Just remember that the most important thing to present to USCIS is to ensure you had started this marriage with the intention of it being permanent and not for immigration purposes and that you continue to contribute equally to this marriage for future. Your evidences do not stop after 2 years but that they continue to show future commitment to each other.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Hello All,

Glad to hear so many success stories on this thread. We are preparing to file for my ROC (90 day window begins Feb 29).

We have many documents to present to the men in black:

Joint bank account

Joint tax Returns

Vacation airline tickets

Pictures

Affidavits (btw - do these need to be notarized?)

Country club contract for my family (myself, wife, daughter)

Life insurance benificiary evidence

Evidence of each other as emergency contacts at places of work etc..

My question is this - We have not bought anything jointly, or opened any credit cards jointly in this time. We haven't needed to, or wanted to. We have not transferred any of our regular bills to include each others names - nothing has really changed in our life other than our joint bank account. Will we be penalized from a standpoint of not having enough evidence? No new cars, no new houses etc. In fact - it is the house I wish to discuss here.

We live in a house owned by my parents. They plan to transfer the house to both of us in May 2013. If we expedited the transfer into our names now - would that be an added security in the eyes of the immigration folks? We do not pay rent currently - so have no evidence of paying that bill together.