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I got a RFE letter on January 8th giving me until April 2nd to send the new paper work.Here is the list they asked for:

-Legible copies of our drivers licenses

-Kids birth certificate

-Copies of mortgage agreements, deeds or other instruments affecting the tittle to real estate that demonstrate join owner of assets or property.

-Copies of insurance policies

-Copies of credit card statements

-Copies of loan documents such as car loan, home improvements loans.

-Copies of rental leases/ agreements showing joint tenancy at a common residence signed by you, the petitioning spouse and the owner of the property.

-Copies of utility bills issued in both names indicating the residential address.

Here is what we sent:

-Date

USCIS

ATTN: I-751

USCIS California Service Center
P.O. Box 10751
Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-1075

Re: Request for Evidence. I-797E, Notice of Action.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I, My husband'd name, a United States Citizen, am submitting the response of Request of Evidence for my spouse, My name, a citizen of Country, and a resident of the United States. Attached you will find the response you requested in I-797E, Notice of Action.

Some of the documents requested are not included in the package, an honest explanation is attached.

Enclosed, please find:

1) I-797E, Notice of Action.

2) A copy of our state drivers licenses. ( I had an expired one and sent the new and expired)

3) A copy of our most recent bank statement documenting our joint checking account.(I got them printed from the bank, first time I printed myself and they didn't take it ) We sent the bank printed and the ones we sent the first time.

4) Statements from our joint account from December 2011 – Present.(I got them printed from the bank, first time I printed myself and they didn't take it ) We sent the bank printed and the ones we sent the first time.

5) Copies of our two of our business checking accounts showing my wife as an additional signer of the accounts.

6) A copy of our home insurance policy showing my wife as an additional insured.

7) Copies of our Company name call logs showing the past 90 days (the maximum provided by company name) of almost daily conversations.

8) A compilation of pictures from November 2011 to March 2015. ( We sent 1 picture per month. We sent 37 pages with pictures. Each picture had the date, location, name of the event and name of people who was on it.)

9) Explanation of missing documents requested on I-797E.( We explained with detail, documents by document requested why we don't have it or why it wasn't showing both of our names)

Sincerely,

My Husband's name

Our address

My husbands Phone #

My husband's email.

Here is the explanation we attached:

Date

USCIS

ATTN: I-751

USCIS California Service Center
P.O. Box 10751
Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-1075

Re: Request for Evidence. I-797E, Notice of Action.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I, My husband's name, am submitting a compilation of the documents requested on I-797E, Notice of Action, however there are some documents requested that my wife and I simply don’t have. I would like to express that my wife and I have a lovely and true marriage, where love and respect are part of our daily lives. We love each other and both of us entered our marriage with good faith. If you believe the evidence we are presenting is not enough to show that our marriage is legitimate, we invite you to come to our home at any time to see how we live our everyday lives together. I also would like to explain that we don’t have any kids because we are a young couple enjoying our time together. My wife is # years old and we are not in a hurry to add more members to our small family. We do have our dog name who we consider to be family and she is more than enough for the time being.

Listed below is a brief explanation of why we do not have the following documents:

1) Copies of instruments affecting the real estate that demonstrate joint ownership of assets or property: We bought our house DATE When we applied to get our loan, my wife had yet to establish any credit history in the USA. Because of credit being a major qualifying factor to obtain a home mortgage, we decided to just get the loan in my name. This was also the advice of our BANK NAME Mortgage Representative, NAME. We talked as a couple and now that she has lived in the USA for a few years she has had the chance to begin establishing credit. So far she has exemplary credit history and in the future she will be added as a co-signer on all future real estate deals.

2) Copies of Insurance Policy: I have included a copy of our homeowner’s insurance policy showing my wife as an additional insured. Unfortunately neither my wife nor I have medical insurance at this time. I am ## years old and I have not had an insurance policy for myself since I was ## years old and listed on my mother’s policy. When we got married we decided as a couple not get insurance because of many factors including the expense. I own my own business and have always paid cash for any medical visits that either of us needed. We understand that the laws are changing and we are now required by the government to obtain insurance. We are currently looking into getting a policy and will obtain coverage this year.

3) Copies of Loan Documents: Besides my home loan that is explained above, I own a used car that was purchased in 20## outright, years before I met my wife. Because I purchased it outright, no loan was required. In March 20## I purchased my wife a 20## CAR BRAND for her ## birthday. The car was a surprise (with pictures attached to document) and as a result a loan was obtained in my name. Until that time we had been sharing one car so I wanted to surprise my wife with a gift that we definitely needed. As it is impossible to have someone co-sign a loan document for a car when you are trying to give them the car as a surprise present, it is easy to understand why that loan is only in my name. It was a # year loan and we have about # years left of payments at this time. Fortunately the home loan and this car loan are the only two loans that we are currently responsible for.

4)Copies of rental leases/ agreements showing Joint tenancy:

See #1. We have a home together but the loan is just under my name. It is not a rental property where a lease would be required.

5)Copies of utility bills: Because our home loan is in my name, most of the utility bills are in my name too which is required by law. For Christmas 20## I bought my wife a new cell phone and had her join my Cellphone company before this she used a prepaid cell phone so there was no monthly bill. Although her new cell phone is also under my name (because it is my plan), we are including copies of my cellphone company bill which shows two unique phone numbers. We are also including call logs that show almost daily conversations between us since December 20##.

Thank you for your time,

Sincerely

My Husband's name

Our address

My husbands Phone #

My husband's email.

We sent the package on April 1st. On April 17th I got an email telling me they received my case on April 16th and my card was ordered for production! . On April 22nd they sent me an email telling me they mailed my card and I also received a letter between this time frame telling me I was approved.Today April 25th I received my card!

Hope this helps others, when we got the RFE I was so nervous and stress.Now I am ready to go change my single name to married name, I applied with my married name so I could get my change name in the new card!.

Thank you and we are so excited!

Thank you all for your answers, i will put everything together and update once i send my paper work and receive an answer back. I will pust a detail list of what i got together so it hopefully will help some people.

All of your answers are really helpful,and make me search for more and get informed. As i said the worse come worse we will got to an interview.

Again thank you for your time and answers

Hi thank you for the quick answers.

I sent:

-Bank statements: showing both of our names, transfers from my husband's account to mine and expenses for trips we've done together to back up the airplane tickets, itinerary and pictures

-Tax documents: His 2011, 2012 extension

-Evidence of car insurance, showing both of our names

-Flight itineraries

-4 letters of close friends and family (notarized)

-Pictures

-Both driver license

-Family and friends cards and mail sent to both of us

-Costco membership

And that's it, i guess no we don't have actual proof of financial co-mingling. My question is should i add me to the bills now? get insurance and all that now? would it look suspicious? would they still take it if is not been since the time frame they are asking?

Thank you Darnell and Ms Hogan

Hi,

i got the request for more evidence letter , i am getting everything i can think off together, the letter is asking for more evidence like joint mortgage, insurance, car loans, bill under both names.

All of the above is under my husband's name, we never thought on updating it because we have a joint account where all the payments are made, and he just transferred all his accounts from when he used to rent, to the house we bought.

I got my car as a birthday present from him ( so it was a surprise and he is on the paper work) we do have a friend in common who helped him during the process to keep it as a surprise, and i have pictures of the day he gave me the car.

Questions:

-I do receive coupons and rewards programs mail to our house and under my name, (victoria's secret coupons and rewards, local casinos, bed bath and beyond, credit card offers, my credit card monthly statement) is it worth it to send them this kind of proof with my name and same address? or would this just be a waste of time? ( i don't want to make any agent upset because i am sending unnecessary paper)

-Should i get a letter from our friend telling she helped him organize everything for my car and my birthday and that he did bought it for me as a present?

-Should we update the billing to my name? I've read in the forum that doing so would just bring yellow flags to the agents.

-The home mortgage, as many topics I've been reading, i didn't had credit score or history in the USA, and by the time i was in the process of waiting for my green card, so i didn't had a social security number either.Should i send the paper loans under my husband's name?

Thank you for reading, i am not scare of going to the interview because we don't have anything to hide, but i do want to avoid it if we can, we don't want the extra stress and nerves :s

Have a great day!

Hi, since i applied and my visa expired, I've been coming and going to Tijuana with no problems. The first time i came back i thought they would send me to secondary inspection ( i cross by car or walking).Because of the Holidays i already went and came back a couple times and they don't ask me for anything, just the regular questions, where am i going? what was i doing in Tijuana? and if am bringing anything back from mexico.

I haven't travel by airplane since i filed for my extension so i don't know if it would be the same case.

Hope to be helpful.

I received my extension letter on September 22 , on September 29 i received my biometrics appointment letter , i did my biometrics on October 16 th. In my online update said to wait for a receipt by October 22 or call customer service.

I didn't got anything after my biometrics appointment. I called today and they told me that the wait is 6 months, that i should be recieving my documents in a period of 6 months from the date they received my biometrics. I asked them if there was any problem with my case,if is hould be worry i haven't heard anything else from them and the agent said no, that everything was on date and i just had to wait.

So why don't you call to customer service? they just ask you for the your receipt number and the number on your extension letter.

Just go the USCIS page and the phone numbers are posted!

Good luck!