The time has come

[motu 5]

If anyone can think for anything that might make it a stronger case please feel free to comment...

Kez

You are in very good shape. My wife will be filing in about 6 months and we will not be submitting as much as you have - my comfort level is pretty high! No letters from friends, etc. either.

We will be submitting a photobook - they are about 6" by 8"; with about 40 + photos of us together and with friends and family from our wedding to the time when we file. This means our trip pictures from Colombia, Miami, Mexico, California, Panama and India. With the last picture of us in front of the Tajmahal!

These photobooks are about $25 for 40 or 50 pictures so they are a good bargain and you can write captions e.g. date, place and names of people in the picture on each page. In my opinion much easier than trying to write who, what and where on the back of the pictures with a pencil.

You have a lot of good evidence - Don't worry about it.

Good Luck

[chri'stina 190]

I agree you have plenty of evidence. We did include affidavits but they are not required as others said.

Good list!

[Cassie 8]

The list looks great, IMHO. I personally would include a couple of letters to cover all my bases, but that's just me.

[perfect 39]

We sent in basically the same as you - tons of evidence and far more than most people I have seen on VJ. We were sent for interview for our initial AOS and thought we had covered all the bases with ROC. However, even sending in a mountain of evidence, we have still been requested to go for interview - which really ticked me off!!!!!

There doesn't really seem to be any pattern to who send in what and who gets approved for ROC without interview, but looking at your list I would say you have supplied everything they have requested so you should be fine.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Thanks all.... I hope it will be enough.... but if they need to interview us thats ok...

Now I have to photocopy all the stuff... wow that will take a week...

Kez

[diadromous mermaid 36]

Ok so the time is here for us to file the I-751, here is our list of evidence.... are we missing anything??

I-751

Check for $545.00

Copy of my Greencard (front and back)

2005 & 2006 joint tax returns

Deads for the house (naming us both as owners)

Mortgage statment (in both names)

Old Lease agreement (in both names and showing old address)

Statement from Joint checking account

Statement from joint savings account

Statement from joint credit card account (showing acctivity for both names)

Electric bill in husbands name

Gas bill in husbands name

Phone bill in my name

Car insurance (listing us both as drivers)

My health care proxy naming my husband

Life insurance policy for me (showing husband as beneficiary)

Life insurance policay for husband (showing me as beneficiary)

IRA in my name (showing husband as beneficiary)

IRA in husbands name (showing me as beneficiary)

Medical & Dental insurance Printout showing us both as being covered

401K in my name (showing husband as benificiary)

AAA membership in joint names

Reciept for furniture (in joint names and new address)

Alarm system agreament (in joint names and new address)

Travel Itinery from our trip to Scotland in 2006 (with boarding passes and photos from the trip)

Travel itinery from our trip to Orlando in May 2007 ( with boarding passes and photos)

Postcard from my Granddaughter (addressed to us both)

Postcards from my Parents from their round the world trip (addressed to us both)

An assortment of photos showing us on 4th July and other family occations

The last Valentines day cards we gave each other....

An I missing anything???

Kez

The list looks comprehensive to me and for the benefit of those that recommended otherwise, affidavits are NOT mandatory and are recommended to supplement submissions where evidence is scant. My only suggestion, Kez, would be to make sure the evidence provided covers the time range in question. You didn't specify which years they were from.

A note to others....

Think of the provision of your evidence as a "video" (succession of time) of your commingled lives, and how that could/would/should be much more compelling than a "snapshot" (one instant frozen in time)

Edited July 30, 2007 by diadromous mermaid

[Kez/JWolf 6]

The list looks comprehensive to me and for the benefit of those that recommended otherwise, affidavits are NOT mandatory and are recommended to supplement submissions where evidence is scant. My only suggestion, Kez, would be to make sure the evidence provided covers the time range in question. You didn't specify which years they were from.

The Bank statements cover from the date we opened them to present and we have some utility bills from our old address and our new address that covers from 2005 to date... I am hoping that is enough and with the travel itineries from 2006 and 2007 and photos from when we married to just last month...

Do you think I need more covering the whole 2 years??

Kez

[Marilyn. 340]

for me I just included the most recent bills and bank statement. etc..... I wasn't called in for an interview nor did I get an RFE....

if you want you could include a bill. utility or bank statement from somewhere near the beginning of the two years and a most recent one.. I think submitting all the bills etc for the entire two years is overkill.... but this is just my opinion...

there is no magic amount of evidence you could send in that would prevent you from an interview... sometimes they just ask for an interview for quality control .....

[marcy_d 0]

I only sent in the most recent copy of everything... but I fully anticipate an interview... but don't really care anyways. We are definately a real married couple and an interview doesn't frighten me at all.

[nin 1]

I filed mine in January and all I included was a copy of my green card, tax returns and the birth certificate of our youngest son. I saw no reason to gather piles of evidence, I figured if they want that much they'll want to interview us anyway.

We did the least possible "evidence pile" previously too (F1 visa and green card interviews) and the only comment we got was "do you want to show your wedding photos" and we said 'not really' (though we had "everything they could ever want" in a binder, and our then 6 weeks old oldest son with us) and that was fine. But now I feel like a slacker

[Nancy2015 2]

OK so now you all have me worried..... you all think I do not have enough joint evidence??

Kez

You have a lot, there's no need to worry.

[raymaga 25]

You have MORE than enough evidence to prove a bona fide marriage.

We sent almost exactly the same documents as you are sending, and we did not send affidavits from friends or family. We did not receive an RFE for anything, and we were approved without an interview.

You will be just fine with the evidence you have.

Good luck.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Thanks all.... Husband is going to the copy shop tomorrow to get everything copied... hate to think how much it will all cost... then we will be ready to put it all together and then mail it out on Aug 13th...

VSC looks to be taking a long time so I guess we should not expect to here anything from them until end of Sept or even Oct...

Kez

[diadromous mermaid 36]

for me I just included the most recent bills and bank statement. etc..... I wasn't called in for an interview nor did I get an RFE....

if you want you could include a bill. utility or bank statement from somewhere near the beginning of the two years and a most recent one.. I think submitting all the bills etc for the entire two years is overkill.... but this is just my opinion...

there is no magic amount of evidence you could send in that would prevent you from an interview... sometimes they just ask for an interview for quality control .....

MarilynP,

Just for the record, nowhere did I state or intimate that one should send all bills for the entire 2 years. I did suggest that in reviewing which evidence you wish to submit, you make sure that if you are attempting to demonstrate that you commingle your finances and you share a home, that the evidence shows that this is not simply something done in the "beginning" or towards the "filing date" but rather throughout! Random selection. Selection being the operative word. Choose wisely to tell the story you wish for USCIS to know of you and your alien spouse. Slugs of insipid evidence does no more for the alien than one or two key pieces. One or two pieces that demonstrate little, of course won't be sufficient.

[Marilyn. 340]

for me I just included the most recent bills and bank statement. etc..... I wasn't called in for an interview nor did I get an RFE....

if you want you could include a bill. utility or bank statement from somewhere near the beginning of the two years and a most recent one.. I think submitting all the bills etc for the entire two years is overkill.... but this is just my opinion...

there is no magic amount of evidence you could send in that would prevent you from an interview... sometimes they just ask for an interview for quality control .....

MarilynP,

Just for the record, nowhere did I state or intimate that one should send all bills for the entire 2 years. I did suggest that in reviewing which evidence you wish to submit, you make sure that if you are attempting to demonstrate that you commingle your finances and you share a home, that the evidence shows that this is not simply something done in the "beginning" or towards the "filing date" but rather throughout! Random selection. Selection being the operative word. Choose wisely to tell the story you wish for USCIS to know of you and your alien spouse. Slugs of insipid evidence does no more for the alien than one or two key pieces. One or two pieces that demonstrate little, of course won't be sufficient.

I wasn't implying that is what you said but I have seen people do that, include all the bills, and utilities from the entire 2 years...

I just included the most recent bills, utilities etc... and i only included one of each..., like one gas bill, one electric bill, one phone bill etc....

but stuff like the 401K , medical benefits etc.. were from somewhere in the 2 years....

Edited July 31, 2007 by MarilynP