NEED HELP FOR REQUEST FOR EVIDENCE (REF)

[nzawake2 0]

   

Ah yes, the current buzzword at USCIS for ROC petition RFE processing seems to be "marriage bonafides." This forum is rife with similar RFE tales, including ours, check our timeline.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/558375-received-rfe-for-i-751-removal-of-conditions-what-else-is-there-to-send/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/562694-how-we-responded-to-an-rfe-for-a-removal-of-condition-application/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/550902-advice-evidence/page-2

Agree with jdbe, suggest that you give them all of the evidence they want in spades, that what we did. For us, our RFE stated that we needed to provide more "marriage bonafides" since the inception of the marriage. I had initially sent in a sampling (1 per quarter) of financial records, various account statements, etc. The initial ROC package weighed in around six (6) pounds at the post office when I mailed it. After receiving the RFE notice, I scoured our records for anything that even hinted of 'marriage bonafides' since the inception of the marriage. I included ALL records, statements, wills, etc., "everything 'cept the kitchen sink." Our RFE response package weighed in around four (4) pounds. The RFE response cover letter was five pages, of details and explanations, in length. CSC approved our ROC petition about one week after acceptance of the RFE response box o' papers.

YMMV,

Good luck on your immigration journey.

thank you for your advise, I went back to reviewed the bank statements we sent, it is formatted in "balance sheet", I searched online, it seems most of transaction pages from other banks list transactions in time sequence with balance after each transaction, but ours were different and checks had no detail, so probably better make notes on each one transaction..

[nzawake2 0]

We haven't filed for ROC yet, but in about 6 months we will be.

Your situation is similar to ours, in that some of the evidence they want is non existant, or doesn't show both names on it. In our case, I already had a household set up, so why change the gas bill, electric bill, cable bill, water bill, etc? Most bills will not put both names on the bill anyway.

I think our car insurance has both names on it, life insurance too. Our new car I made them put both names on it even though they did not want to because my wife had not yet developed a credit rating. Most of our financials are still separate since I wanted my wife to become familiar with the American banking system which is so different from China's. She now has a good credit score on her own, under my direction as to which steps to take, but still needs me to help her navigate some of the confusing bank rules and regulations. I do this by putting her on speaker phone while I talk to the bank, so she can hear both sides of the conversation.

But as to hard physical evidence, I'm afraid we will be lacking too. Most of the steps I have taken to have her develop a good financial identity of her own (in case something happens to me, she won't be lost), can also be looked at as "lack of bona fide marriage".

I only hope that other evidence such as joint tax returns, trips taken together, photos taken together, will be enough to sway the IO. I also plan to write a good statement such as this, outlining much of what I said here.

**** Moving from Bringing Family to ROC forum ******

Did you send every page of the bank Statement? I only had one bill changed to my husbands name. But I had online invoices that showed things I ordered online and sent him.( same bill to ship to address) I sent Vet bills showing both names. I also sent a long letter explaining why his name was not on anything. ( mortgage, bills,and why we didn't have both names on the cars) If you have two cars usually everyone is list on the insurance bill. You should be able to get copies of those.

I would start printing out everything. I also sent copes of card and envelopes showing both our names that were mailed to us. My package was pretty thick but it was missing a few core things and we were approved. I just explained why they were missing.

OP: Do you have two active accounts?

I didn't send any mortgage statements. I sent a letter saying I bought the house 7 years before I got married and I plan to add my husband when I do a refi. I said I didn't have very many utilities in my husbands name because the companies didn't want to put his name on the bill because they said there was no need to. I told them that I didn't put my husbands car in both our names because I wanted him to have something he could say was his. I said that I have my own car and so does my son and it's only fair my husband did to. And if they want to hold that against us I was fine with that.

I sent 6 or 8 bank statements ( plus check stubs from my husband for each month so they could verify that it was his check being deposited), 6 gas bills, 4 vet bills, 2 home / auto insurance bills, 5 medical bills for my husband paid by my insurance. I sent a paper from our works showing him as my beneficiary and me as his. Then I had 8 or 10 sales receipts for items I ordered online and sent to my husband. Items they could tell were for my husband.(like we order Turkish tea online because I can't find it here.) Theses were the only solid things I had. The rest were copies of mail showing his name and our home address, cards from friends showing both our names and home address. 3 letters from friends and 1 from my husbands boss saying our marriage was real.

Like you I have almost every bill auto deducted. I live on my debit card. I don't get any paper bills. But I was able to go online and print off the gas bills and the gas company is the only one that would add my husbands name to the actual bill.

I'm sorry they are asking you for more evidence. Is it possible that you have another account connected to this one ( like a savings account) ? Maybe they want to see copies of that account too. If you have large amounts transferred out of your checking to another account they may think you're keeping separate accounts.

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I think now is not the time to skimp on evidence . I would send every page of every bank account and credit card you have. Starting from the date your wife came to the current month. Maybe highlight which are your checks being deposited and which is hers. Make a note of which transactions are for what utilities. Note which transaction is for her cell phone and yours or if together note that. Now is the time to explain every transaction to show mingling of money and to prove you are not keeping separate accounts.

Ah yes, the current buzzword at USCIS for ROC petition RFE processing seems to be "marriage bonafides." This forum is rife with similar RFE tales, including ours, check our timeline.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/558375-received-rfe-for-i-751-removal-of-conditions-what-else-is-there-to-send/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/562694-how-we-responded-to-an-rfe-for-a-removal-of-condition-application/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/550902-advice-evidence/page-2

Agree with jdbe, suggest that you give them all of the evidence they want in spades, that what we did. For us, our RFE stated that we needed to provide more "marriage bonafides" since the inception of the marriage. I had initially sent in a sampling (1 per quarter) of financial records, various account statements, etc. The initial ROC package weighed in around six (6) pounds at the post office when I mailed it. After receiving the RFE notice, I scoured our records for anything that even hinted of 'marriage bonafides' since the inception of the marriage. I included ALL records, statements, wills, etc., "everything 'cept the kitchen sink." Our RFE response package weighed in around four (4) pounds. The RFE response cover letter was five pages, of details and explanations, in length. CSC approved our ROC petition about one week after acceptance of the RFE response box o' papers.

YMMV,

Good luck on your immigration journey.

Thank you for all your guys` help and advise, today I received my green card and approve, they come same day. I sent my final RFE on Dec 10th (deadline of response is Dec 18th), and today Dec 23ed, I received the card, it is so surprised and it is best "Christmas gift" Wish you a good Christmas holiday.

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

Congrats! Thanks for the update.

[Rich and Wen 101]

Congratulations to you! Hope you have a long and happy life ahead of you!

[Pitaya 2,576]

Congratulations, thanks for the update.