Co-signing an apartment lease count as request for evidence (RFE) of a bona fide marriage?

[mdluskr 0]

Hello. If I go to America and co-sign an apartment with my husband, then return to my country, does that count as request for evidence (RFE) of a bona fide marriage? Also, I plan on making a joint bank with him when I travel to USA with a tourist visa. Is this legal?

[Tm and Je 35]

Hello, you will need a social security card to open a bank account. You can not use your passport to do it.

[blue_angel_29 108]

Hello, you will need a social security card to open a bank account. You can not use your passport to do it.

there are some banks that only require a passport as long as it's only a checking account. banks ask for SSN if they want to open a savings account because banks give a little bit of interest. Try the banks inside wal-mart or local banks.

[Michael and Ganna 105]

Adding my wife was easy.....also I live in a small town where I have been a vip client more than 20 years. We also opened up a Chase account from abroad. I had no prior business with Chase. Then we opened up a USAA account, I use some of their services but not banking. My wife googled and found 3 or 4 banks that you can open as a foreign person without ssn or ittn. Adding her to brokerage accounts was a complete different story.

[A'n'L 735]

Hello. If I go to America and co-sign an apartment with my husband, then return to my country, does that count as request for evidence (RFE) of a bona fide marriage? Also, I plan on making a joint bank with him when I travel to USA with a tourist visa. Is this legal?

Hi,

Just to clarify for you, a request for evidence (RFE) is what is sent to you by the adjudicating office if the evidence you've provided is not satisfactory. You send the evidence, they (might) send the RFE.

I'm assuming you are getting ready to file for a CR-1 visa? If you are living in different countries, they will not expect you to have a joint lease or bank account yet. It doesn't hurt, but if you can't get it you should focus on gathering other relationship evidence (proof of having met, ongoing communication etc).

[Michael and Ganna 105]

If you fill in a timeline it makes it easier for members to give advice.......if you are newlyweds you aren't going to have much evidence

[Thesmiths2016 117]

Hello, you will need a social security card to open a bank account. You can not use your passport to do it.

I have an american bank account without a SSN. Try bank of America :-) They allowed me to with my passport (at a university branch), and later on when I had closed it and re-opened, by using my passport and my "then" boyfriends home address.

[mallafri76 1,012]

Yep, I also opened a bank account with Bank of America when I was over visiting on the VWP. I had to go there in person and present passport, a second set of ID and make a deposit. Lots of people are able to open bank accounts with a SSN. I even got a credit card with Bank of America without a SSN.

Where are you in the visa process? Have you gotten an RFE or are you asking for bona fida evidence in general?

[Thesmiths2016 117]

I have an american bank account without a SSN. Try bank of America :-) They allowed me to with my passport (at a university branch), and later on when I had closed it and re-opened, by using my passport and my "then" boyfriends home address.

I'm currently going through the process of opening an HSBC account in the USA ... but from Australia. I got them to send me an "opening an account from abroad" form which I have to fil out and take to a branch over here with ID so they can see me face to face. You could contact HSBC and try the same. Or if your other half is in the USA, have them open one, and then add you to it.

[mallafri76 1,012]

Or if your other half is in the USA, have them open one, and then add you to it.

Wouldn't work because the same laws apply whether you open your own account or get added to an exciting account, the bank still needs to verify the ID so OP would still need to either have a SNN or go to the bank in person.