Please help! Question about bank statements evidence!

[Esya 18]

Credit card bank statements have only my husband's name on it. We also have a joint checking and savings account together and they have my name on statements, but we don't use our checking account that much, we use our credit card (I'm an authorized user and have the same card with my name on it) and then pay it off with our checking account. Should we start using our checking account more instead of the credit card or we can just keep using our credit card even though it only has my husband's name on the statements? Also, is it bad if we only opened it 7 months prior to I-751? Before that we just used my husband's card from a different bank. Please help!

[Nitas_man 3,100]

12 minutes ago, Esya said:

Credit card bank statements have only my husband's name on it. We also have a joint checking and savings account together and they have my name on statements, but we don't use our checking account that much, we use our credit card (I'm an authorized user and have the same card with my name on it) and then pay it off with our checking account. Should we start using our checking account more instead of the credit card or we can just keep using our credit card even though it only has my husband's name on the statements? Also, is it bad if we only opened it 7 months prior to I-751? Before that we just used my husband's card from a different bank. Please help!

Identical cards (copied on one page) with your names are fair evidence.

First joint statement (labelled first added) and last statement before filing cover that period of time.

Some people use accounts more, some less but it helps if at least pay household bills from the joint bank account.

[Esya 18]

1 minute ago, Nitas_man said:

Identical cards (copied on one page) with your names are fair evidence.

First joint statement (labelled first added) and last statement before filing cover that period of time.

Some people use accounts more, some less but it helps if at least pay household bills from the joint bank account.

Thank you so much! Do you think we should include an explanation letter on why we opened a joint account so late or I should do it only in case we get RFE?

[Nitas_man 3,100]

2 minutes ago, Esya said:

Thank you so much! Do you think we should include an explanation letter on why we opened a joint account so late or I should do it only in case we get RFE?

 

Sometimes it helps to have a summary timeline to go with the evidence.  If household business was being taken care of by both people from two different accounts addressed to the same place it is also indication that both of you were living in and contributing to the same household.  Depends on what the statements say.

Edited August 15, 2019 by Nitas_man

[Esya 18]

3 minutes ago, Nitas_man said:

 

Sometimes it helps to have a summary timeline to go with the evidence.  If household business was being taken care of by both people from two different accounts addressed to the same place it is also indication that both of you were living in and contributing to the same household.  Depends on what the statements say.

Thank you so much!