Now that we have our Green Card...

[guitarboy53 0]

I was just wondering if we will need all the photocopies of documents and letters from USCIS in the future. We have spent the last year and a half keeping documents, stressing about paperwork being correctly filled out, and all the rest of the jargon that comes along with working with the immigration folks....

What do all of you do with your paperwork?

[reeses16 8]

Great question! I was wondering what everyone else does too. After we filed for AOS, we got rid of a lot of the K1 stuff. We used the K1 financial stuff for the I-864, but stuff like plane tickets from our visits, phone cards, phone bills etc. we trashed them.

My husband just got his AOS approved. We got the welcome letter in the mail today. I'm wondering if we can get rid of the AOS stuff. The I-751 looked as though we don't need anything from the AOS packet.

-DA

[Kez/JWolf 6]

I have all my immigration papers in a fire proof box.... I will keep everything until I have become a citizen.... then I will weed out all the evidence I have collected and just keep the I-130 approval notice, the AOS approval notice, the removal of conditions approval notice and my naturalization certificate.... Those I will keep safe forever..

Kez

[Jasman0717 8]

I'm saving ours, start a scrapbook or something

[*JG* 2]

We are keeping all ours until Andre becomes a citizen.

[rebeccajo 14]

We had a paper shredding party, but only for worksheets, lists, instructions and duplicate forms.

We have copies of entire packets, just as we sent them. In other words, exact copies in the order we compiled the forms.

We keep EVERY official document or letter we have ever received from them in a ring-binder notebook. Each document is in a sheet protector. Our birth certificates and other important documents are also in that notebook. The notebook is in a fireproof box.

Plane tickets and other relationship memorabilia went into a scrapbook.

As Kezzie said, certain things I will keep forever. Even after naturalization. I simply don't trust 'em. Plus, it will be interesting papers for family to see years from now.

[Cassie 8]

We have copies of entire packets, just as we sent them. In other words, exact copies in the order we compiled the forms.

We keep EVERY official document or letter we have ever received from them in a ring-binder notebook. Each document is in a sheet protector. Our birth certificates and other important documents are also in that notebook. The notebook is in a fireproof box.

I am the exact same, except for the fireproof box. We have one, just not big enough for all the immigration stuff!

All the evidence I have used in my submission packets is all in one place. Once I get citizenship, I will keep some copies, the rest I will shred or scrapbook

[Ladylethal 12]

I have everything as well, since K1, all documents, most copies, a copy of the packet and all received letters. It's in a folder but I've yet to get myself a fireproof box to transfer all my documents into.

[bradcanuck 1]

We are going to safe-deposit them. I still have my F-1 visa and all supporting documents 4 years after it expired. I keep everything.... you just never know.

[sahara 0]

We put all the immigration documents (K packets, AOS forms, birth cert., financial docus, etc.) in protector sheets, put tabs on each file to keep it organized and easy to locate. They are all in a big binder. As for the evidence such as cards, memorabilia, etc. I will most likely make a scrapbook out of them once the whole process is done . I am sure that my family and I would enjoy going through them in the future.

[Amby 490]

I wondered the same thing the other day. I opened my file cabinet and thought ####### am I going to do with all these papers. I thought we should keep them til Neil got citizenship so now that everyone else says that's what they plan to do I think we'll do the same.

[John & Annie 0]

We scanned everything and have it in pdf as well as keep the originals in a bag for easy grabbing.