Help with evidence of cohabitation during interview

[visaquestion1234 20]

Hi all,

 

My wife and I are waiting for our AOS interview from a K1 visa (cancelled, will be rescheduled due to COVID). However, I’m worried about some basic supporting evidence I won’t be able to provide.

 

We currently live in my parents’ home. They own two homes and are only here about 6 months per year. So, my wife and I are living here and aggressively looking for houses so we can move out. All of my personal info, documents, licenses etc are under this address. I do not own my own place yet. Therefore, all utilities, mortgage etc are not in my name. Additionally, my wife’s driver’s license is a different address - she was an au pair a few years ago and received it then. It’s still valid so she hasn’t changed anything on it.

 

So, on paper, our addresses might appear kind of sketchy. I can’t be the only one in this situation though. How can I best explain our living situation?

 

As an aside, I have more than enough supporting evidence for everything else (health insurance/bank statements/taxes etc).
 

Thank you!

[Lucky2Lucky 2,526]

9 minutes ago, visaquestion1234 said:

Hi all,

 

My wife and I are waiting for our AOS interview from a K1 visa (cancelled, will be rescheduled due to COVID). However, I’m worried about some basic supporting evidence I won’t be able to provide.

 

We currently live in my parents’ home. They own two homes and are only here about 6 months per year. So, my wife and I are living here and aggressively looking for houses so we can move out. All of my personal info, documents, licenses etc are under this address. I do not own my own place yet. Therefore, all utilities, mortgage etc are not in my name. Additionally, my wife’s driver’s license is a different address - she was an au pair a few years ago and received it then. It’s still valid so she hasn’t changed anything on it.

 

So, on paper, our addresses might appear kind of sketchy. I can’t be the only one in this situation though. How can I best explain our living situation?

 

As an aside, I have more than enough supporting evidence for everything else (health insurance/bank statements/taxes etc).
 

Thank you!

Your wife really should have changed her address to reflect where she lives now; (in my opinion its not fair to the family she lived with prior; still using their address I feel it crosses some ethical line). We did not have our own place or household bills but what we did was.. have parents write a notarized letter that states they are letting you live there, you guys are welcome to stay as long as you need to, etc. and submit their ID, deed to the house that shows they own it. That is what we did (although we did have matching IDs) and we never had a problem with our application for any reason. 

[visaquestion1234 20]

17 minutes ago, Luckycuds said:

Your wife really should have changed her address to reflect where she lives now; (in my opinion its not fair to the family she lived with prior; still using their address I feel it crosses some ethical line). We did not have our own place or household bills but what we did was.. have parents write a notarized letter that states they are letting you live there, you guys are welcome to stay as long as you need to, etc. and submit their ID, deed to the house that shows they own it. That is what we did (although we did have matching IDs) and we never had a problem with our application for any reason. 

In hindsight, it would have been helpful to change her address on the driver’s license. However, the only reason why we didn’t was because it our plan to move out as soon as she got here (a year ago). Various things have made that not happen so quickly. So we don’t really want to change it to this address because we could be out in a month or two. Did you have your interview? We obviously haven’t had any issues with our formal application either as it has already been approved. I’m just worried about questions that might come up during the interview.

[Lucky2Lucky 2,526]

52 minutes ago, visaquestion1234 said:

In hindsight, it would have been helpful to change her address on the driver’s license. However, the only reason why we didn’t was because it our plan to move out as soon as she got here (a year ago). Various things have made that not happen so quickly. So we don’t really want to change it to this address because we could be out in a month or two. Did you have your interview? We obviously haven’t had any issues with our formal application either as it has already been approved. I’m just worried about questions that might come up during the interview.

At that time most people didn’t have interviews and we didn’t. It’s not a quick process to buy a house (i.e. I don’t foresee  you buying and obtaining ID within a month) so maybe you can change the ID prior to the interview? It’s possible they may question if she’s still working from them under the table since she still uses their address. I think it’s definitely possible it may be questioned- I def don’t think it would be cause for denial. You could always take a letter from your parents like I suggested and have that on hand if it is questioned.