How to get proof of address with no bank account/bills (K1)

[Rosalea 22]

Hi everyone! My apologies if this has already been asked/answered or if it sounds dumb.

 

I came here on a K1 and am about to adjust my status. I'm also looking into how to get a bank account and/or driver's licence shortly. However, I see that for both of these things they require proof of address. I'm a bit stuck with this because, typically proof of address is a bank statement, government-issued mail or some kinda bill - I don't have any of these. I have an SSN - not sure if I can use some part of that for it. Any ideas on what I can do? If I get put on my husband's lease can I then use something from that as a proof of address?

 

Let me know!

[top_secret 2,100]

The US Government most likely mailed you the Social Security Number.  That is a good place to start.  By law you are required to have some sort of health insurance and they would probably mail you something from an insurance company.  If your fiancee added you as an authorized user on credit cards, those would be mail from a bank.  If you are driving at all your fiance should add you to the car insurance even with a still an overseas drivers licence.  That would be more mail from an insurance company.  A lease certainly works too.

[powerpuff 5,970]

Bank of America doesn’t ask for any proof of address documents.

[CMJuilland 484]

When we were in that situation, my wife added me to the lease and to her existing bank accounts and as an authorized user on one or two of her credit cards. Especially the lease but also mail that was generated by bank/cc was enough “proof of address” for everything I needed going forward. It might also be a good idea to do that just to start establishing credit (the bulk of that will have to be your own credit card, but still). 

 

This goes beyond your question, but regarding DL: I don’t know what Colorado’s policies are, but here in Virginia, I wasn’t able to get one before I had my EAD or GC. When talking to our county police, they said it was “frowned upon” to drive on my Swiss driver’s license for “too long”, but I would “most likely be just fine doing it”. So I just did that until I had my EAD and was able to get a state issued DL. 

Best of luck with everything. 

[Crazy Cat 39,575]

I put both our names on our Amazon delivery address....then used a copy of a delivered package label to show both of us at the same address (as one piece of evidence)

Edited November 1, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[Caligirl1 201]

17 hours ago, Rosalea said:

Hi everyone! My apologies if this has already been asked/answered or if it sounds dumb.

 

I came here on a K1 and am about to adjust my status. I'm also looking into how to get a bank account and/or driver's licence shortly. However, I see that for both of these things they require proof of address. I'm a bit stuck with this because, typically proof of address is a bank statement, government-issued mail or some kinda bill - I don't have any of these. I have an SSN - not sure if I can use some part of that for it. Any ideas on what I can do? If I get put on my husband's lease can I then use something from that as a proof of address?

 

Let me know!

I had for example still mail that was forwarded to my address in the US, coming from Germany. I notified them about my adress change when I moved- and because uscis only needs to see name & adress, there was no need for certified translation. 

[JKLSemicolon 329]

Getting added to the utility bills is another way to have proof of your address.

[Rosalea 22]

2 minutes ago, JKLSemicolon said:

Getting added to the utility bills is another way to have proof of your address.

Ok good that's what I was thinking of doing!

[Rosalea 22]

4 hours ago, CMJuilland said:

When we were in that situation, my wife added me to the lease and to her existing bank accounts and as an authorized user on one or two of her credit cards. Especially the lease but also mail that was generated by bank/cc was enough “proof of address” for everything I needed going forward. It might also be a good idea to do that just to start establishing credit (the bulk of that will have to be your own credit card, but still). 

 

This goes beyond your question, but regarding DL: I don’t know what Colorado’s policies are, but here in Virginia, I wasn’t able to get one before I had my EAD or GC. When talking to our county police, they said it was “frowned upon” to drive on my Swiss driver’s license for “too long”, but I would “most likely be just fine doing it”. So I just did that until I had my EAD and was able to get a state issued DL. 

Best of luck with everything. 

From what I know in Colorado, the foreign licence is invalid after 90 days and it is possible to get one before EAD. I might look into if it could be a similar case here where they'll let me still drive on my NZ licence...

[Ellie_7 99]

I second all the excellent suggestions on how to show proof of address.

 

Regarding the assertion, "by law you are required to have some sort of health insurance," this is inaccurate to my knowledge. Trump did issue an executive order requiring immigrants to have health insurance or show proof of how they would pay health costs, but Biden revoked the order in 2021. (If a law requiring immigrants to have health insurance now exists, anyone with evidence of such a law is welcome to provide it.)

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/553629-biden-revokes-trump-era-order-barring-immigrants-who-cannot-afford/

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/14/a-proclamation-on-revoking-proclamation-9945/