RFE for evidence of marital life together, we're a little bit confused

[VandK22 4]

Hi there, apologies if this is in the wrong section. Any and all help is very much appreciated!

 

I entered the US on a K1 Visa and we got married in October 2023 a little over a week after my arrival. 

 

We promptly filed for AOS and EAD, all within the 90 days. We received an RFE and part of the RFE was for proof of marital life together. it mentioned that it should cover the time period from the start of our relationship to the present.

 

The questions I have are:

 

1. Does this mean we should include evidence from when we first started to date each other, and should we send in all the evidence that we sent in with the initial i-129f packet that we filed at the very start of this whole process to prove we had a valid relationship 

 

2. Would this be sufficient for the post marriage evidence to show we share a marital life together. What we have for this is:

 

- Around 100 Photos or so from our wedding, honeymoon, Christmas with my wife's family here in the US and pictures from my wife and I celebrating new years together

- Proof that I am an authorized user on her 2 credit cards

- Rental lease with both our names on it and signed by both of us

- Proof that I am on my wife's employment based health insurance as a spouse

- Proof that I am the beneficiary on my wife's life insurance

- Account letter from our bank showing both our names on our checking and savings accounts

- Receipts of things we have done together like, Movies, Broadway shows, Dinners etc.

 

Would this be considered enough and would I be correct in assuming we send in all evidence from when we started dating back in 2020, or does it mean only from when we got married?

 

 

[Crazy Cat 39,336]

I would cut 90% of the photos.  An Immigration Officer isn't going to look through 100 of them.  Concentrate on quality rather than quantity.  Good luck. 

[K1visaHopeful 2,665]

Post the redacted RFE.

[VandK22 4]

5 minutes ago, K1visaHopeful said:

Post the redacted RFE.

 

This is what it mentions for this part, the other part was only for a medical which for some reason they didn't seem to have from my overseas medical so we just got a whole new medical to be safe.

[VandK22 4]

40 minutes ago, VandK22 said:

 

This is what it mentions for this part, the other part was only for a medical which for some reason they didn't seem to have from my overseas medical so we just got a whole new medical to be safe.

 

This is confusing us as we're not sure if they mean from the date in which we got married or from the very start of our relationship as we're not sure how marital life can be proven with evidence prior to us getting married?

[Verrou 1,899]

on the RFE it said share marital life together. technically yes its from the day you married to present. but that's the standard generic letter for RFE anyway

 

but i dont see the harm to add on the evidence since when u were dating ( for example : boarding pass to show whoever visit the other). this past 2 years i helped filing many AOS, even with wedding pictures and from the day they dated, photos that we submitted never exceed 15 pics. 

 

focus on evidence of cohabitation / finance more. that's they want to see that you guys share live together

[powerpuff 5,914]

3 hours ago, VandK22 said:

- Account letter from our bank showing both our names on our checking and savings accounts

Account letter is not enough. They want actual full statements, all pages even if they’re mostly blank. Send all statements that you have so far since you probably opened it not that long ago.

 

100 photos is way too much. 10 is enough.

Edited January 10 by powerpuff

[VandK22 4]

26 minutes ago, powerpuff said:

Account letter is not enough. They want actual full statements, all pages even if they’re mostly blank. Send all statements that you have so far since you probably opened it not that long ago.

 

100 photos is way too much. 10 is enough.

 

What we have is an Account Activity letter.

 

It shows transactions on the accounts similar to a statement, it has both our names on it as we have access to each others accounts and funds. We both also have a  bank card which states joint account and it allows us access to the money from the other persons checking account, would this be enough or would we require the full statement, these are very similar to statements from what I can see, it shows all the transactions from a date range that we specify

 

[powerpuff 5,914]

2 minutes ago, VandK22 said:

 

What we have is an Account Activity letter.

 

It shows transactions on the accounts similar to a statement, it has both our names on it as we have access to each others accounts and funds. We both also have a  bank card which states joint account and it allows us access to the money from the other persons checking account, would this be enough or would we require the full statement, these are very similar to statements from what I can see, it shows all the transactions from a date range that we specify

 

Full statements.

[Verrou 1,899]

10 minutes ago, powerpuff said:

Full statements.

second this !

they want to see transactions, eg : pay cable, pay rent, buy groceries etc. normal marital life sharing financial together. my suggestion is always minimum 3 months full statements. they dont care about a piece of letter stating that person A added person B vice versa without real transaction statement.  now obviously u have deadline for RFE so send whatever you have and not waiting for 3 months statement. 

 

all my statement from the bank are paperless and i can access it by login on the app / website and just download it

 

Edited January 10 by Verrou

[millefleur 5,037]

USCIS/DoS has been bamboozled in the past by people faking statements and only sending in a few, so now they want to see full statements to make sure they are real and show continuity. Yes, it's annoying and you'll kill a lot of trees with your tomes of printing them out but it's the most sure fire way to show authentic financial co-mingling. 

 

Way back in the day, people used to send in 1 statement per quarter but now they really want to see all statements. I also concur with the others: 15 photos max, preferably with family/friends or doing activities together where you can see different settings etc to show you have a life that you live together. 

Edited January 11 by millefleur

[carmel34 3,531]

22 hours ago, VandK22 said:

- Around 100 Photos or so from our wedding, honeymoon, Christmas with my wife's family here in the US and pictures from my wife and I celebrating new years together

- Proof that I am an authorized user on her 2 credit cards

- Rental lease with both our names on it and signed by both of us

- Proof that I am on my wife's employment based health insurance as a spouse

- Proof that I am the beneficiary on my wife's life insurance

- Account letter from our bank showing both our names on our checking and savings accounts

- Receipts of things we have done together like, Movies, Broadway shows, Dinners etc.

They want to see hard evidence that you live together at the same address and that you co-mingle finances.  Joint checking and savings accounts, all bank statements, all pages, from marriage until now.  Both driver's licenses showing that you live at the same address.  Utility bills from the date of marriage showing both of your names if possible.  Auto insurance showing both names, etc.

[VandK22 4]

Just to post a little update to help anyone else going through this

 

Along with all other mentioned evidence in original post we sent:

 

Evidence from when I(beneficiary) arrived to the current date of us submitting the RFE

Bank statements as suggested by people on this forum

We cut down the photo amount by a little bit but still sent a decent amount of pictures

We sent in another marriage certificate just to be safe

 

 

• USCIS received our RFE on January 23rd
• Started reviewing the evidence Yesterday January 25th
• Just got approved and Approval notice Document on MyUscis Account today!

 

Thank you to everyone who helped us!

Edited January 26 by VandK22
Added information

[OldUser 4,897]

29 minutes ago, VandK22 said:

Just to post a little update to help anyone else going through this

 

Along with all other mentioned evidence in original post we sent:

 

Evidence from when I(beneficiary) arrived to the current date of us submitting the RFE

Bank statements as suggested by people on this forum

We cut down the photo amount by a little bit but still sent a decent amount of pictures

We sent in another marriage certificate just to be safe

 

 

• USCIS received our RFE on January 23rd
• Started reviewing the evidence Yesterday January 25th
• Just got approved and Approval notice Document on MyUscis Account today!

 

Thank you to everyone who helped us!

Great news!!!