shakedong93

Thank you very much!!! It has been a lonnnnnnnngggggg time....

Niceeeeeeee! I'm sending mine later today!

Congrats to you! I'm happy for you!!

yas! At least the online status is updated!

You've been approved after you submitted the RFE?

can someone help me update my status? Thank you!!

Under CSC(one entry in the middle...)

SHAKEDONG93...........10/15/15......10/19/15......11/xx/15......06/08/2016(RFE:04/29/16)

hey guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I actually get the case updated!!!!New Card is being produced. I wanna thank you Happy Chic and many others who helped me with my case. Honestly your kindess and being so helpful! I can not do this without all the people here! Best Wishes to people who are also going through RFE process

On June 8, 2016, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number WACXXXXXXXXXXX, and will mail it to the address you gave us.

It has been another 3 weeks and I still haven't got any updates yet..

has anyone who got RFE heard back from them yet? The package was delivered on 05/13 and I'm still waiting for response....My case status can never be correctly tracked through their online system....although I received a RFE, my status still showing case received.

Great information Happy Chic! Do you have an idea how long it usually takes them to response after the RFE is delievered? Many Thanks

I have never heard of RFE receipts in online statuses. The next status you should see is "card in production" if USCIS is satisfied with your RFE response. Patience is our greatest ally during the I-751 process!

Yes you can have friends/neighbors/co-workers/basically anyone who have known you both for a long time write an affidavit. Affidavits are secondary evidence. The home improvement receipts were discussed in length in your previous thread I believe but I just want to say those are secondary evidence and don't really show evidence of your bonafide marriage. Include 2-3 but not a whole lot. Your list looks really good!

Thank you so much Happy Chic! I really appreciate your help and efforts

Hi everyone. Firstly, Thank you so much for all the supports and responses to my other thread(http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/594612-urgent-please-help-rfe/). I have no clue how to update the current thread, so I'm making a new one instead.

My NOA 10/19/2015, and RFE is on 04/28/2016, marriage on 07/2013

In my new list, I won't be able to provide all the utilities history, either a joint bank account.That's my fault/ our scenario.I will give a cover letter saying '1. Credit issues 2. Switch Providers a lot for a better deal 3. Providers won't give all the histories prior one and half years ago'. But I do can provide the individual bank account showing we have been living in the same address since marriage. Actually 'showing living under the same address' is one of any examples given on RFE. Another thing is both of families living so far away from us and it's really impossible to get an affidavit from them.Considering the Affidavit is not on the RFE list, shall I get two new ones from our friends?Please leave comments and suggestions！I appreciate it.

Here's my list

1. Driver License, Permanent Resident Card, Marriage Certificate

2. Mortgage Agreements under Both Names

a. Residential Sale & Construction Contract

b. HUD (Settlement Statement)

c. Escrow Account Disclosure Statement with payment history (since 11/2015)

d. Home Buyers Warranty Certificate

e. Title Insurance

3. Joint Income Tax 2013, 2014, 2015

4. Life Insurance Beneficiary Designation, Teacher Retirement System of Texas Beneficiary Designation, Texas System Optional Retirement Program (UT Saver) Beneficiary Designation

5. Joint Auto Insurance (12/2014 to Present), Joint Rental Insurance (05/2014 to Present), Joint Home Insurance (11/2015 to Present)

6. Joint Credit Cards Statements 06/2014- Present, Proof of Paying Each Other Individual Credit Cards Activities (06/2015 to Present)

7. Lease/Rental Agreement 2013-2015

8. Utility Bills and Individual Bank Statement

a. Individual Bank Statements Show Same Address (07/2013 to Present)

b. Electricity Bills (05/2015 to 03/2016 under Spouse, 03/2016 to Present under Me)

c. AT&T Telephone Bills (12/2014 to Present, under Me)

d. CenterPoint Gas Bills (11/2015 to Present, under Spouse)

e. Water Bills (10/2015 to Present, under Me)

9. Home Improvement Projects and Receipts

a. Picture of our new Purchased Home, Picture of Spouse Families Visited Our Home in Thanksgiving 2015

b. Receipt of Purchasing Living and Dining Room Furniture under Both Names

c. Receipt of Purchasing Washer (under Spouse)

d. Receipts of Purchasing Bedroom Furniture, Refrigerator, Garage Storage, Garden, Décor etc. for Our New House (under Me)

10. Other Supporting Documents

a. Pictures Together Since Marriage

b. Text Messages (WeChat) History

c. Email History

d. Flight Ticket Confirmation for 05/2016 to Costa Rica

e. Love Letters, Co-workers Letters for House Warm Party

f. Old Affidavit from friends (2/2013)

Send the travel itineraries, anything you have to show them that you travel together. Recent photos with friends and family. And get recent affidavits, come on. No time to slack especially you're getting and RFE and you have limited evidence to present.

Any retailers credit cards? Joint membership?

Make a cover letter explaining your situation of having minimum co-mingling assets. Essentially everything you both own together like pets, hospital bills for the pets? Maybe?

Blooms

Thanks blooms. I did sent a lot of pictures along with my application. And I will send all of those plus some extras for this RFE. We both live on the other sides of our families...It would be harder to get affidavits from family especially in a short time of period. However, We can definitely get two from our friends without a doubt. We were so focus on buying a house together..We do have a lot of online orders (from lowes, homedepot, costco, wayfair, target, macy's and bestbuy for our house) showing either one of our names and delivered to our house. All those purchases were made after NOA date(751). Do you think those will also help? Thanks a lot

Doubt it, unless you can explain to me how that proves your marriage is real? It seems like proof of residency than a proof of marriage. If your spouse's name was also on them, maybe? But still not great. Anyone can buy something online and have it shipped to an address.

It makes sense to purchase thousands of dollars(>10k) in one address within 6 months, the address which is the home we purchased together...isn't it...

It's not the point I wanna argue with you, I think it may help out some other stuff we don't have?

Hi dear helpers..

I just realize that I have a lot of furniture/appliances purchases under my name(over 20 orders, 50 items from wayfair, walmart, target etc in the pass 2-3 years) have the deliver address which is the same as the one showing on my bank/utilities statements. Could they be considered as assets？ Thanks！

California Service Center

VJName..............Date of I-751...NOA1 Date....Biometrics.....Approved
Shakedong93..............10/15/15......10/19/15......11/xx/15......--/--/--

RFE on 04/29/2016

Hi,

could someone help me update the status for me? Newbies here(don't wanna mess up the template..lol). And yes..I got a RFE on 04/29/2016 which is after 6 months of waiting. I will update my case when I'm ready to send out the documents

Thanks

Welcome to the forum.

Everybody that files for ROC gets two numbers, read paragraph five of the Form I-797 NOA receipt/ extension letter. Both of the numbers are listed on the Form I-797c ASC biometrics appointment letter.

It seems that you have tried to initially send in ALL of your marriage bonafide evidence since the inception of the marriage. Affidavits are weak evidence. Consider getting your wills, DPOAs, and Living Wills prepared and submit with your RFE response. We had ours done through legalzoom.com, was able to submit with our RFE response.

When you get a chance, It helps everyone that uses, or is helped by the forum.

Good luck on your immigration journey.

Hey Pitaya! That's a really good point! I believe our company has the free service of living wills and/or DPOAs. we will definitely do that. Thank you very much!

Yeah. I will update my own timeline(I believe it should be in October filers)

BTW, How long it took them to update your case status? How long it usually takes USCIS to reply?

I would suggest to have medical power of attorney, affidavits from friends and family attesting to your marriage, travel itineraries and boarding passes together, do you have 401k stating you as beneficiary? Joint health insurance? Assets you own together like stocks or bonds?

You can submit a cover letter explaining about the reason why there is no joint savings.

Blooms

Hey blooms, I do have the affidavits which was made over 2-3 years ago when submitted 485&130. are these affidavits still effective?(I thought they are good only for 2 years or so). Both of us do not have 401K...instead we have teacher retirement program.....Health insurance are also separate coz we both work for the same hospital(we should have put one person on another person account...)

For the travel part...we always had road trips....but we do purchase a flight ticket to Costa Rica for this May...How could I collect the documents from travel itineraries? the bank statement showing the purchases out of the state(Texas) in the same time period?

Thanks a lot!

Hi, don't compare yourself with another friend or someone else's immigration. You don't know what the friend sent and your friend most likely had another adjudication officer who found the friend's evidence satisfactory for whatever reason. You'll only worry yourself to death if you compared yourself.

There's no point in sending bank statements (or other similar financial assets) when there is no co-mingling because that is the very thing USCIS is looking for. However yes, you can send utility bills that have separate spouse names if the address is common. This is because many utility companies don't add two names in their billing statements and USCIS surely knows about it. You are still involved in financial co-mingling when you pay for gas and your spouse pays for water in the same house.

I'm not sure about e-mails but I doubt it will be help. I-751 is again about joint assets and joint residence together. So I would focus on documents that show joint liability. E-mail communications are looked at in K1 and AOS stages.

Thank you Happy Chic again! You are being really helpful!

You need to submit info from since you got married. Marriage certificate is not needed. They want to see joint financial responsibility.

It's not surprising that you got an RFE, sorry to say. First of all, you had to send evidence from the inception of your marriage. Secondly, there was no point in sending separate bank accounts when USCIS wants to see JOINT assets. Also, your list is short. It has some great evidence like the home purchase and tax stuff - but it's still short. I would submit tax transciprts instead of returns. In addition, include new evidence like utilities, health insurance, life insurance etc. Consider crafting healthcare power of attorneys and/or wills. You can also ask two or more people like family members or friends to write notarized affidavits stating you're a bonafide couple. If you have traveled together, include travel itineraries and boarding passes. What about greeting cards addressed to both of you? Brainstorm anything you have that may be joint and consider including those. As the previous poster said, including a marriage certificate is not necessary during the I-751 process.

Thank you both of yall!

I didn't realize I need to submit the evidence since the time we got married. One of my friends was also under 751 process and he only submitted the evidence from the date they got temporary GC and they got approved...I guess their evidences still stronger than ours....The reason why we show separate bank account is to show we were living in the same address. And I have reason why we do not open a bank account together(individual credit issue will affect getting a loan when purchasing a house).

Happy Chic, thank you so much for providing these great hints! I really appreciate it! All the other utilities bills are either under one of our names..never both...will those utility bills work in this case? I do have whole lot(I really mean it! a lot,,hundreds) of Emails we sent each other through our work/personal Emails in the past 5 years. On another hand, we work in the same hospital for over 2 years...Our life insurance are separate...

The two WAC receipt numbers are a glitch and should not have any impact in producing an RFE. You got an RFE because your adjudicator was not satisfied with the evidence you submitted. The best way to help you is if you list out exactly what you sent and how much. Then members here can suggest what to supplement for the RFE response. Good luck!

Thank you Chic! For a moment I really think it is because of those two NOA receipts mess up my application. It's pretty hard to remember every single detail I have been sent out. But let me list them..and I will add more if something else pop out of my mind. For how much I provided...The documentation I provided only cover the timeframe from the date I got the temporary GC to the date I submitted the application, which is around 2 years. I don't know think I need to provide the proof from the date of our marriage...is that correct?

Here's the list of what I can remember:

marriage certificate

two years of : a. separate bank account statements shows the same address.

b. drive license

c. joint car insurance

d. apartment leasing document with both of name on it

e. credit card activity--showing I paid my spouse credit card debts and vice versa

f. joint filled taxes return

g. ATT phone bills statements showing my spouse, my mother-in-law and I are in the same household account

h. timeline pictures

home purchase documents includes HUD and loan documentation

Another question will be : For the RFE, do I need to send everything again to them? I really do not know what else I can provide...

Did you include your marriage certificate?

I swear I did!!! I provide a lot more evidences than I listed...And is it normal to have two WAC numbers?

Hi all,

I have been on this forum for a while. Although I never registered an account, I always check threads and feel happy for those people got approved.

In my case...my NOA was 10/19/2015....and as the date of 04/28/2016.(after 6 months of waiting..).I got a Request for Evidence Notice.

There are something going on with my application...First of all, I have two NOA receipts numbers(both start with WAC)...I constantly check both receipts case status online. One showing as 'case received' while the one as 'My Case Status does not recognize the receipt number entered.....' the RFE notice only reflect one of them, which is the one CAN NOT be tracked online!!!! Now I'm totally confused which number attached to my application...

The content of this RFE is 'you have not established that the marriage upon which you were granted conditional status was entered into in good faith'. I have given all I have to show evidence the truth of my marriage.I attached the two years W2, the HUD letter and mortgage(house), same address for 2 years after temporary GC, car insurance, joint credit card statements, same telephone bills, pics and many others. The only thing we do not have are 1. child 2. joint debt account.

At this point what shall I do...Many thanks! I really appreciate it!