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I will be submitting on September 10th, 2018.

marked. it's a good example for me.

Thank you!

1 hour ago, Sukie said:

Has your child been to the doctor?  If you had something that shows you and all of your family on medical coverage, as well as an insurance claim form for you child, that could be added.  Has your child received any mail at your address?  Does he have a local library card, or gym membership card?  Those are just some thoughts.  Does he belong to any clubs (Boy Scouts, sports) where you might have pictures of him with his teammates?

 

You'll be fine!  Good luck in your journey!

 

Sukie in NY

Thanks a lot for your ideas.

Another question is what documents should I submit. My understanding is we don't need to submit my kid's birth certificate at this time. Am I correct?

My wife and I are preparing I-751 for me and my kid. My kid and I both obtained 2-year green card at the same date.

Besides my kid's green card photocopy, we already provided his student information card from his school website, his school transcript and emergency contact card, all these 3 stuff are showing my wife and I are his parents/guardians. We also printed some pictures which include we 3 people.

What else evidence/documents should we submit? Should we provide my kid's birth certificate which we already submitted when applying for the 2-year green card?

Please suggest, many many thanks!

Thanks a lot! It's good to know USCIS's logic.

I looked through the table of contents posted here. I noticed that all couples submitted their joint bank accounts monthly transaction, they emphasize that they pay this and that from these accounts.

But nobody talked about where the money come from.

USCIS doesn't care the money source in your joint account, as long as the couples use a joint account for their living?

In my case, my wife and I directly deposit same amount money from our biweek salary before. 

When we bought a house half year ago, my wife spent her saving much more than mine. So I deposit more salary than hers to our joint account now.

Will it be a matter?

Please advise, thanks!

5 hours ago, xillini said:

Like anything else in the United States, I think it depends. Some officers like to get highlighted, but others don't. So it is up to your choice and depends on whose hand will be given to in the service center per USCIS officer's personal taste, which we have no way to figure it out. 

 

Some officers who dont like the highlighted think when the evidences are highlighted, they tend to show only favorable material facts to the officers' attention while unfavorable evidences are getting hard to catch. 

 

Yeah of course, when you are submitting I 751, it is assumed that you are seeking for immigration benefits. Of course, you would only be interested in provide the most favorable information because that is why you are submitting I 751. 

However, officers job is not just to give approval, but would need to go thru each material facts and verify if the story matches with documentation, during which the highlighted content (or favorable to applicant's perspective) only hampers the objective understanding of evidences, and therefore officers start to suspect that you would only highlight contents to blind their eyes and wonder if you would hide some facts and ask what the intent was. 

 

So it is up to you. like anything else, everything in the United States, there is no answers, and it all depends. Ultimately, it is also your choice as well! 

Thanks a lot for your analysis。 I won't take the risk, I won't highlight the materials that I will submit.

Think it twice. USCIS said they will deny the application directly if they don't like after 9/11. Not sure highlighting breaks their rules, although it will help them a lot.

6 hours ago, mrskent said:

I personally highlighted the scanned documents provided in very light pastel yellow, especially when it's just a wall of text to look through. I did the same on my prior applications, no issues. 

 

It's light enough that they could go over it with a traditional yellow highlighter and it wouldn't get muddled with the previously highlighted items. 

Thanks, I saw a lot of people said they highlighted their documents in their cover letter.

I'm about to do the same thing if their petitions were not returned by USCIS. 😉

Thank you guys reply...

Imagine you are the officer, highlighting on the important information really helps when you facing the huge number of materials, as long as they review the original documents we submit.

Even myself spent a lot of time to search the real meaningful information through the documents.

Sometime the USCIS rule doesn't make sense.😁

I saw some people said they made the pertinent information highlighted in yellow.

But I remember USCIS doesn't want people mark any color on the documents. USCIS said they will scan all the paper in black and white.

So highlinghting on the paper is a good idea or not? 🙄

Thanks!

Many companies don’t want to burden themselves for employee’s spouse, the expense will be pretty high if couples have joint insurance. Is this a well-known common sense to everyone including USCIS officers?

In our case, we used to have joint medical insurance but my company increased the bill later, so we separate now.

Should I submit the old joint medical insurance or don’t show them? Should I write a letter to explain why we don’t have joint insurance now? Or don’t mention it at all?

Please suggest, I appreciate!

4 hours ago, ms80 said:

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you can do it with them with your specific state

Thanks for sharing.

After generating the documents online, do I still need to find witness to sign or just sign by myself then everything done?

11 hours ago, Perfect two 💑 said:

Combine few picture and just print it on regular A4 paper. We did that before. And everything is fine. Picture is only secondary evidence. 

American regular paper is letter size, not A4 ^_^

I am going to submit about 12 photos.

Is this amount of pictures enough?

How to hold these pictures along with other documents? Any good idea?

Some people said just print on the letter size paper, but in this way the picture quality will be bad.

I am hesitating... Any suggestion will be appreciated!

Thanks.

48 minutes ago, John&Maria said:

We submitted two years of statements from one joint account, last 3-4 statements from another joint account along with a letter from this bank indicating that it has been established and active fro over 2.5 years. For this account we also sent deposit slips made by both of us, checks to IRS etc.

For credit cards we didn't send any statements, just printouts from online banking showing account owner and authorized user and copies of actual cards.

Thanks. 

Why people don't think credit card statement is important? because it doesn't show the money source?

59 minutes ago, EireneFaith said:

Mine I submitted quarterly from the beginning of our joint account, so you will just submit 8 bank statements for the whole 2 years.

Good idea! Did you also submit the Credit Card monthly statement?

I saw some people submitted 3 months of joint bank account statement and some people submitted 2 years! It will be pretty thic.!

plus I will also submit credit card monthly statement.

So how many months of these 2 statement is enough?

Thank you!

Thanks guys!

My 16-year-old daughter got her 2 years conditional GC on the same day with me. So we both can file ONE I-751 form. 

I am wondering if she needs to sign on this form.

Basically USCIS requests all the applicants older than 14 years old to sign their application by themselves.

My daughter is 16 years old. She and I are preparing I-756 form together with my US spouse for our ROC.

We can not find a place for her to sign on the I-751 form.

Should my daughter also sign somewhere along with the I-751 form?

Any suggestion and comments will be appreciated, thanks!

Just now, NikV said:

You only need to submit fee for yourself. You are neither a US citizen or LPR when you are filing I751. You are a conditional resident.

Thanks for your reply.

One of my understanding is that even myself might not submit the $85 Biometric Services fee. Since I am the spouse of an US citizen, my Biometric Services appointment might be waived. Actually some of my friends were waived of the Biometric Services appointment after they filed I-751 recently.

Hi guys, I am preparing the I-751 petition for my ROC. I noticed the instruction of I-751 regarding the Biometric Services Fee (Please see the following Quote):

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Biometric Services Fee.

1.  Conditional Resident. Each conditional resident and conditional resident dependent included in the principal petitioner’s Form I-751 is required to submit a biometric services fee with this petition, in addition to the required filing fee. (See the What Is the Filing Fee section of these Instructions.)

2.  U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident Spouse. If you are the U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident spouse, you do not need to include a biometric services fee at the time this petition is submitted. If USCIS later notifies you that you must submit your biometrics, you will receive a biometric services appointment notice with instructions on how to submit the additional fee.

 

I am confused by this instruction. There are 2 possibilities based on my understanding:

Possibility 1:  Since I am the spouse of a US citizen, my Biometric Services Appointment may be waived, so I do not need to submit $85 Biometric Services Fee when filing I-751 petition.

Possibility 2:  I am applying for the ROC, and my spouse filing this petition with me jointly. Even he is an US citizen, it's possible for him to also have a Biometric Services together with me. But he do not need to pay the Biometric Services Fee right now, what he needs to do is just waiting for the further notification from USCIS.

Which possibility is correct? Do I need to submit $85  Biometric Services Fee when I filing the I-751?

Please help out, thanks in advance!

USCIS already approved the I-485 and granted the 2-year green card.

When they process the I-751 for 10-year green card later, will they go through the issues listed in the I-485 again such as the DUI, membership, crime records etc.?

Thanks!