5 years rule marriage based application

[arrakee1 1]

I need some suggestion.

 

1. When i applied for 10 years green card, i didnt hire a lawyer. I just did everything myself as it was fairly simple. Is it possible to do it myself with the citizenship too? My case is very straight forward. Do you suggest i need a lawyer this time?

 

2. For the proof documents, since i will apply based on 5 years rule, Do i need to show a lot of documents that show we are together? Or just a joint financial? (We dont have lease or mortgage. Also, we file tax separately, do i still need to have tax transcript? What do you recommend? 
 

Thank you

[SusieQQQ 11,585]

If it’s 5 years it’s not marriage based - they will probably ask some questions about how you got your green card but you won’t need all the types of proof that show marital union, etc that a marriage based naturalization requires

Yes you can do it yourself if no complications 

It is usually suggested you bring tax transcripts to show that you have been paying your taxes ...mostly they won’t ask for these, sometimes they do so better safe than sorry in case they do ask 

 

 

[NotMoreForms 68]

The citizenship application is not complicated.  I suggest you do it online as the website will list what documents it wants, and you cannot submit until it is complete, so there is less chance of missing something.  There can be problems with uploading the scans of the documents so I suggest that you place the scans in a special folder then when ready to submit upload all the documents and submit all at one time.

 

The 5 year citizenship application needs very few documents compared to the others.  From memory they did not ask for any financial documents for the application.  I will be bringing tax transcripts, and a few other financial documents to the interview just in case.

[arrakee1 1]

9 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

If it’s 5 years it’s not marriage based - they will probably ask some questions about how you got your green card but you won’t need all the types of proof that show marital union, etc that a marriage based naturalization requires

Yes you can do it yourself if no complications 

It is usually suggested you bring tax transcripts to show that you have been paying your taxes ...mostly they won’t ask for these, sometimes they do so better safe than sorry in case they do ask 

 

 

Thank you! 

2 hours ago, NotMoreForms said:

The citizenship application is not complicated.  I suggest you do it online as the website will list what documents it wants, and you cannot submit until it is complete, so there is less chance of missing something.  There can be problems with uploading the scans of the documents so I suggest that you place the scans in a special folder then when ready to submit upload all the documents and submit all at one time.

 

The 5 year citizenship application needs very few documents compared to the others.  From memory they did not ask for any financial documents for the application.  I will be bringing tax transcripts, and a few other financial documents to the interview just in case.

Thank you!