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Hello Dear Friends,

 

I'm about to file my i-751 and would like to give you a little bit of history of my road so you can see the whole picture and advise.

 

My wife and I meet each other on Thanksgiving 2014 through a friend of mine and cousin of her while I was in the US for work, I used to have P1 visas and my Tourist B1/B2 visa at the same time. We started the long distance relationship with me visiting her every time I had the chance either on my work travels or as tourist and her coming to my country every 2 months or so (she is from my country also so she visited her family on the same trip). We had plans to get married and me coming to share our life together. While visiting her God gave us the blessing and we were expecting a baby!, she has a kid from her previous husband who passed away 2 year before we met. We decided to go ahead and got married, months later submitted the i-130, i-485, i-512 & i-765 and after 8 months we were having our AOS interview. The interview went really smooth, we had a really nice young officer that made a couple questions about our families, the relationship of my wife with my mother and some simple things. We start talking about my previous work as a musician and he even asked me for youtube links so he can see me playing (he confessed later that he is a music fan). He then asked me if we had any other evidence and our lawyer started handing over photos, bank statements and finally our daughter birth certificate...(she was born in the middle of the process) when he saw the birth certificate he smiled and said "This is your golden ticket!". Made me sign the conditional resident paper and said everything looks good and that he would do a final review and took us to the exit shaking hands an smiling. As expected and to my happiness 1 hour later I received the email confirming that my case was approved!!

 

Moving forward to now, time to file i-751 and I would like to share my package contents so you can give your opinion, here it goes.

 

Cover Letter

Check

Completed & Signed i-751 form

Copy of my green card

Copy of both Driver Licenses

Contents Index

 

1-Marriage Certificate

2-Birth Certificate of our daughter

3-Tax Returns Transcripts for years 2015, 2016 & 2017

4-Joint Bank Account Statements, on this account we deposit her paycheck to pay for the most expenses as she makes more money than me, I have another count under my name that I had before marriage and I deposits my paycheck and pay for cellphones, cable, my car and groceries (should I include statements for this account also even though is not a joint account?)

5-Bussines Registration, she had this business since 2005, now I'm part of it with my name on the registration.

6-Professional Licenses for both, as the family business I already got the same license she has.

7-Joint Credit Card Statements, as before I also have a credit card under my name that I basically use to pay my hobbies, don't think I shroud include that.

8-Copy of our Business Debit Cards with the name of the company and our names.

9-Cars & Boat registration, we have 1 car and our boat under both names and 1 car under her name only

10-Copy of Cars & Boat insurance policies with both names

11-Copy of our Health insurance coverage and ID cards for 2016 & 2017

12-Copy of Life Insurances policies showing each other as beneficiaries

13-Copy of our home refinance closing statements showing me as co-borrower, she has been the owner since 2005 but refinanced last year and me as the husband had to sign, I'm not on the deed though.

14- Itineraries for 2 international travels as family plus one Disney Trip.

15-Copy of cars finance statements showing both names on one and her name on the next.

16-Copy of 2 years bills form electricity company showing both names

17-Documents from our daughter's childcare showing both names.

17-About 50 photos organized & printed 2 on each page with descriptions of place, date and people.

 

That's it, now you guys feel free to say what you think.

 

Thanks!!

 

 

 

 

 

Posted

That looks solid!

ROC from CR-1 visa (Green Card expiration date was Nov 24th 2016)

 

Link to the evidence I submitted. Be sure to send evidence spanning your entire marriage (especially for K-1) or as far back as you can. Just one or two bank statements will not cut it. I primarily focused on the two years of living here since I came in on a CR-1. If you don't have the fundamentals (i.e. joint accounts/policies), you can explain why in the covering letter. E.g. "While we do not have joint utilities, we both contribute to them from our joint bank account".

 

September 26th 2016: I-751 package sent to CSC

September 28th 2016: Package delivered
September 30th 2016: Check cashed
October 3rd 2016: NOA1 received with receipt date of 09/28/16
November 3rd 2016: Biometrics received with appointment date of 11/14/16.
November 14th 2016: Attended biometrics appointment
October 30th 2017: Infopass appointment to get I-551 stamp
February 26th 2018: I-751 case number (aka the NOA1 receipt number) becomes trackable
March 14th 2018: Submitted service request due to being outside of processing time.

March 15th 2018: ROC approved. 535 days (1 year, 5 months and 17 days)

March 29th 2018: Card being produced

April 4th 2018: Card mailed out

April 6th 2018: Card in hand. Has incorrect "resident since" date. Submitted service request on I-751 case (typographical error on permanent resident card) and an I-90 online.

April 2018 - August 7th 2018: Tons of service requests, emails and now senator involvement to get my corrected green card back because what the heck, USCIS. Also some time in May I sent a letter to Potomac telling them I want to withdraw my I-90 since CSC were handling it.

August 8th 2018: Card in production thanks to the direct involvement of Senator Sherrod Brown's team

August 13th 2018: Card mailed

August 15th 2018: Card in hand with correct date. :joy:

October 31st 2018: Potomac sends out a notice stating they have closed out my I-90 per my request. Yay for no duplicate card drama.

Posted
On March 30, 2018 at 9:30 PM, Ketsuban said:

That looks solid!

Thanks Ketsuban, hoping to get the same result as you!

On March 30, 2018 at 12:41 PM, FrenchKat said:

Plenty of evidence! More than I sent :) 

You are good to go !

Amen!

 
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