How To Organize My Package

[BananaShoes 31]

I am preparing my petition and evidence to mail soon, and it came to around 250-300 pages.

 

My question here is what do you guys think is the best way to prepare the package and everything to make the life of the USCIS officer easier, and make it all neat and organized? Should I use a binder? How should I label everything? I am interested in hearing how everyone did it. Feel free to also link any products you mention (if it is allowed to link to external links like those)

 

Thanks!

[SalishSea 16,912]

49 minutes ago, BananaShoes said:

I am preparing my petition and evidence to mail soon, and it came to around 250-300 pages.

 

My question here is what do you guys think is the best way to prepare the package and everything to make the life of the USCIS officer easier, and make it all neat and organized? Should I use a binder? How should I label everything? I am interested in hearing how everyone did it. Feel free to also link any products you mention (if it is allowed to link to external links like those)

 

Thanks!

Have you read the instructions on USCIS.gov?  I believe they explicitly request no binders for all petition packages....     We plan to use a cover letter with an index, and then the separate sections that refer to each line item will be clipped together.

 

 

[IndigoFlowers 130]

I organized everything into a big stack with my credit card authorization on top, followed by the electronic notification sheet, my cover page, my I-751, copy of front and back of green card and then followed by all of my proof of relationship documents. 
 

I sectioned my relationship proof into different sections and put tabs on the bottom of the sections to organize them (I.e. bills, insurance, house, car, etc.). If certain sections contained multi-page documents that needed to stay together, I paper clipped them. I organized the package according to how I detailed everything in my cover page. Then, I got a large binder clip (couldn’t find big enough ones in store, so I turned to Amazon) and secured the entire package together. Finally, I stuck it in a plain file folder just for extra protection during transport. 
 

No fancy binders, no page protectors, no staples. My package was just under 250 pages and ended up getting sent in a USPS priority mail flat rate medium box.