Adding utilities that do not show both petitioner and spouse names?

[Erin2019 10]

Hello, 

 

I have a question about utilities. In our particular situation, we added the petitioner's name rather late to the utility bill accounts and so we only have bills from this year's with both the spouse's and petitioner's names but not those from previous years. Those from previous years only have the spouse's name on them. Should we include these bills from previous years regardless in our I-751 packet? Or is it better to leave the bills from prior years out and just write up an explanation as to why they were left out?

 

Thanks 

[beloved_dingo 1,932]

1 hour ago, Erin2019 said:

Hello, 

 

I have a question about utilities. In our particular situation, we added the petitioner's name rather late to the utility bill accounts and so we only have bills from this year's with both the spouse's and petitioner's names but not those from previous years. Those from previous years only have the spouse's name on them. Should we include these bills from previous years regardless in our I-751 packet? Or is it better to leave the bills from prior years out and just write up an explanation as to why they were left out?

 

Thanks 

Personally, I would just include the ones you have with both names as long as you have plenty of other strong evidence. USCIS doesn't expect every type of evidence to go back to the date of marriage.

 

In our case, I only included water and phone bills because those were the only ones that showed both names, and none of the other bills are in my husband's name (the immigrant).