Looking for general advice with upcoming ROC

[PaulV 0]

So my 2 year green card expires on September 10th. I am starting to get the evidence together to remove conditions. However, from June 22nd to August 13th I will be in Europe on vacation- my contract position with Microsoft ended and I thought i'd take advantage of a vacation having saved money up, I have another contract lined up in August. I am worried that if I send off the paperwork this week that i'll miss my biometric appointment. Should I go ahead and file this week or wait until I get back in August?

With the packet I will contain:

Check

Cover letter,

Form I-751

Copy of Green card front and back

Evidence:

Joint bank account statements over the last 2 years

2 joint credit card statements over the last 2 years

Copies front and back of both our WA state drivers licenses with our joint address

Joint car insurance tabs

2 years of joint tax returns and w2's

Family pictures from the last 2 years

Copy of our sons birth certificate, photos of the birth, photos of us together with the baby over the last year

Vacation evidence since I got my green card: trip to San Francisco- flight tickets, photos. pictures from Vancouver BC, Seaside Oregon, Burning Man, 4

I'm also tempted to include joint flight tickets for my upcoming trip and hotel/rental car bookings to Iceland, Scotland, turkey, Spain and Portugal

I'm going to try and dig out Christmas cards with both our names on it.

However, I'm nervous as my name is not on the house lease. My landlord knows I live here and she said she'd add me to the lease but hasn't got around to it. I haven't wanted to push her on it as the rent for the place is cheap for Seattle prices and I worry she'd raise it. Same goes for utility bills- never got round to changing them due to hassle.

We also don't have joint health insurance as it was too expensive to add my wife to mine, so she has her own. No 401k.

What other evidence could I provide? We each have our own cars, they have our separate names on each title but it's registered to the same address.

I was also thinking 2 or 3 affidavits from friends or family.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Paul

[twinspits 2]

If you are dead set on going on vacation then definitely don't file until you get back

[Lainie B 465]

If I were you I would get it all ready to send before you leave on your vacation, then leave it with someone that your trust in the US to put in the mail approximately 2 weeks before you are due to come back.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Mail it when you get back.

Evidence comment--

Our new mortgage and house were solely in my name. Utilities were in my name. No joint health insurance. He was not beneficiary to my 401k. No children. Different last names. Yet he still passed ROC without a hitch. So it is quite possible with what you have to be approved. You have the golden ticket in my opinion...a child together.

[lovekoto 3]

Mail it when you get back.

Evidence comment--

Our new mortgage and house were solely in my name. Utilities were in my name. No joint health insurance. He was not beneficiary to my 401k. No children. Different last names. Yet he still passed ROC without a hitch. So it is quite possible with what you have to be approved. You have the golden ticket in my opinion...a child together.

Can you please tell me what docs you have submmitted? I have lack documents too of joint accounts.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Can you please tell me what docs you have submmitted? I have lack documents too of joint accounts.

Most importantly, I had saved anything that had both names for two years so there was evidence that covered date from marriage up until ROC. Even if it wasn't prime evidence, it covered the span well. I think the ones who didn't plan ahead have a harder time because they may have thrown things away.

• Joint bank documents

-First joint account--opening and closing documents.(No statements because it wasn't my main money account and had little activity)

-Welcome letter from new bank (we moved to a new town and changed banks)

-Joint checking statements (4) First page only

-Joint money market statements (2) (earliest and latest)

-Joint savings account (1) (earliest)

-Thumbnails of checks we wrote showing we both used the account. Those are in the bank statements, so I picked three months where we both happened to write checks.

• Legal document from sale of my house that described him as my husband. He had to sign that one page, I guess because he lived there, not because he was joint owner.
• Photocopy of credit cards that showed same account number. Each had card in their name. (He was not a joint owner of the account so a statement would prove nothing. So I photocopied the cards...Visa, Mastercard, Macy's.)
• Joint tax transcripts (2)
• Joint automobile items

-Invoice for purchase of new vehicle. Had both names

-Car titles for two autos. Joint owners

-Auto insurance cards (3) (spanning over 2 years)

-Photocopy of each driver licenses showing same address (old address and current address)

• Trips taken together (boarding passes showing we sat side by side) England & Arkansas

• Miscellaneous items with both names

-Statement from dentist office when we went the same day

-Cat rabies certificate

-Membership cards from a community class thing we did

-Invitation to brunch

-Photo Christmas cards we sent (2 different years)

-"We're Moving" printed postcard we sent out with new address.

• Many photos taken together on holidays, with family, trips, and working on our house. (Printed on plain paper and sized down to get 6-8 on a page. Included dates, place and people in photo) Three photo pages.

Even though the evidence was nowhere near the great things many people have and some of it was almost silly, I think it showed a picture of a real couple who adopts a cat together, sends Christmas cards, goes to the dentist together, hangs out with friends, owns cars, writes checks, and has credit.

And if anybody is wondering, I finally got around to deeding him half the house, but well after we were done with USCIS forever (naturalization). It just took awhile to get around to it because it involves legal mumbo jumbo and filing with the county.