Power of Attorney Question

[Cool_Immigrant 3]

Hi all,

Our ROC is due shortly, so we started to assemble our package. We have durable power of attorneys (both parties showing each other as attorney-in fact) since 2015, I also assigned my spouse as my healthcare attorney just in case of an emergency since she is my only family here in the US. However, I am not assigned as her healthcare attorney, because she has my in-laws and lots of family members around here. Would they want to see both parties assigned each other? Should I include the healthcare power in my package? Please let me know with your thoughts.

Thanks!

[Merrytooth 5,748]

If you have enough evidence of bona fide marriage (mainly co-mingled financial stuff), then you don't really need to send power of attorney stuff.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/560102-wills-and-power-of-attorney-as-evidence/

[Cool_Immigrant 3]

Merrytooth, thanks for your reply. As far as financial evidence goes, I have the following:

- Joint checking account since 2014 (this one is the main account we use, which my salary gets paid in)

- Joint savings account

- Secured credit card

- 2-3 credit card account I have recently opened and declared my spouse as authorized user (my credit score got high enough to get regular credit cards, her's isn't that good so we couldn't open joint account)

- 3 car titles

- Health/eye/dental/life/accident insurance from work showing my spouse as a beneficiary

- Car insurances

- 401K showing wife as beneficiary

- Tax returns filed jointly (will include 2016 as well when we file)

- Rental agreement & landlord's letter stating that we are in good standing and planning to buy his house in the summer

- Power of Attorney (Financial)

- Sam's club membership

- AAA membership

- Utility Bills

Do you think these are enough?

If you have enough evidence of bona fide marriage (mainly co-mingled financial stuff), then you don't really need to send power of attorney stuff.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/560102-wills-and-power-of-attorney-as-evidence/

Edited December 20, 2016 by Cool_Immigrant

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Your list looks good to me.

Remember to send in the bank statements spanning the whole 2 years. E.g. every quarterly statements.

[Cool_Immigrant 3]

Your list looks good to me.

Remember to send in the bank statements spanning the whole 2 years. E.g. every quarterly statements.

I have all of the statements since I got my conditional residency, a total Dr/Cr of approximately 70-80k spent together. Do you think I should include our credit cards? We haven't accrued much spending on 'em. (I got declined for real credit cards until recently since I didn't have any credit history).

[Merrytooth 5,748]

I have all of the statements since I got my conditional residency, a total Dr/Cr of approximately 70-80k spent together. Do you think I should include our credit cards? We haven't accrued much spending on 'em. (I got declined for real credit cards until recently since I didn't have any credit history).

IMHO, unless you are paying monthly bills from the credit cards, I would only include credit card account statements showing the joint cardholders/ authorized users names.

[Ketsuban 1,033]

Since you/your wife adjusted status, I'm assuming you got married in the US and stayed after? If so then USCIS is going to want to see evidence spanning back to your wedding day (or soon after). If you don't have anything going that far back then I would write a letter explaining why. This would be to avoid any possible RFE in the future requesting what I just explained.

If you lived apart while married at any point and didn't have joint accounts for this reason, I would also include that in the letter.

[Cool_Immigrant 3]

Ketsuban, thanks for your response. That is correct, we got married here in the US and adjusted my status from F-1. We live together and above you can see a list of financial co-mingling evidence that we can submit. ( We have photos w/ family,friends co-workers, affidavits from family, pet adoption letters etc. as well, I just wrote financial proof we have at this point since I saw from various posts that it's the most important sort of evidence for ROC so I started to assemble that first). I just wanted to make sure if I should include power of attorneys and credit cards that we barely used. (Our joint checking/savings accounts have lots of joint transactions, we just didn't use credit cards as much/got 'em recently)

Since you/your wife adjusted status, I'm assuming you got married in the US and stayed after? If so then USCIS is going to want to see evidence spanning back to your wedding day (or soon after). If you don't have anything going that far back then I would write a letter explaining why. This would be to avoid any possible RFE in the future requesting what I just explained.

If you lived apart while married at any point and didn't have joint accounts for this reason, I would also include that in the letter.

Edited December 21, 2016 by Cool_Immigrant