beaver48612

YAY!!! I just got a call today telling me my application was approved. My oath ceremony is next Wednesday! Yay! Thank you everyone!

I have a completely different way of thinking. I always think it's better to include as many proof as I can, as to show that I have nothing to hide. It is also the general advices that I've seen on immigration sites, so that's what I did. Better supply everything than being asked later "why didn't you submitted this?"

If you look ar the USCIS instructions for N400 when file under the 3 year rule, they actually asked for those items that prove that you are a couple. So I was just following their instructions.

Yeah I know I can reapply, but that's $680 down the drain. And then I have to come up with another $680 :'(

Our bank accounts have always been separate, since the AOS and ROC. Didn't seem to be a problem with the first guy who interviewed us then. We actually have way less evidence that we lived together back during AOS. Back then, the lease was in my name, all bills were in my name, my husband had to hard press to find a piece of mail that had his name on it. But the guy passed us through without much problem. I guess it's just karma getting us back now. :-(

I just had my naturalization interview. I filed based on the 3-year marriage. After the civic test (which I breezed through), the IO started grilling me about my marriage. I answered everything truthfully, but I guess the IO wasn't convinced. Red flag: My husband is much (MUCH!) older than me. Red flag: we have separate bank accounts. Red flag: we have no children together (no children period, not even from previous marriage), and have no plan of having any. So I was sent home with an RFE. The IO asked for last 6 months of bank statements for our 2 bank accounts. I don't understand how separate bank account statements will prove our bona fide marriage, but if you ask for it, I'm happy to provide it.

In the original N-400 application, I included:

- lease to our apartment, our phone bill, and cable bill with both our names on it.

- last 4 years of tax return

- representative photos taken since our marriage, including links to online album for more photos (with the amount of photos we have together in the thousands, printing them all our just was not an option).

During the interview, I showed the IO my life insurance policy that listed my husband as a beneficiary.

Apparently, all that just wasn't enough.

Fortunately, she gave me the RFE letter right there in the interview, and the stuff she requires (bank statements) is easy enough to get. I already have all of them printed out and ready to be mailed in tomorrow.

I'm just worried my ### off right now. What's next? What if those bank statements are not enough? What then? Will they deny me? Or make my husband and I go through another interview like we did when I applied for my first Green Card? Yes there are red flags about our relationship. Yes it is not a conventional relationship. But we do live very happily together, take frequent vacations together, and just generally enjoy each other's company. Marrying my husband was the best thing I've ever done and I would do it again in a heartbeat. How can I prove to them that our marriage is legit? And haven't we passed that hurdle when they interviewed us for my Green Card the first time?

I'm just very worried and frustrated right now.