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    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

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    14 hours ago, calliz said:

    I forgot to ask you, how long did it take you to hear back? I hope it doesn’t take too long, just have so many things to stress about lately that I really wish I could get some good news soon!

    Nope mine didn't take long at all. I mailed out on the September 12th, my online status changed a week after that saying they received it (even though I knew they received 3 days after according to tracking number :yes:) ... anyways, long story short, my greencard date is 10/10 :yes:

    So not long at all :dance:

    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted

    13 hours ago, calliz said:

    Thank you for replying back! So just a bit of background, we got married in 2013 but we actually didn’t apply for AOS until late feb and got approved at the beginning of 2015, stupid me I didn’t save the stuff I sent back then so I don’t have a lot from the early years. The RFE asked for proof of same residence, commingling of finances and children, this is so far what we have gathered:

     

    Copies of both or driver licenses showing same residence (we sent this in the past, but we just renewed them) 

     

    Car insurance showing both of us under samepolicy for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

    IRS transcripts for 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017

    2015 (copy of amended tax submitted to IRS as we just did this) 

    joint savings bank acct statements from 2015 to current (that’s when we opened the acct and I forgot to send this initially as I only sent a Silly paper card from the bank that showed our same acct number)

     

    Life insurance statement from work from 2015-2018 showing me as a beneficiary on his policy 

    Life insurance statement from 2016 to 2018 showing him as beneficiary on my policy

    2016-2017 401k showing him as the beneficiary on my acct 

    current 401k showing him as the beneficiary

    husbands 401k showing me as beneficiary

    medical insurance cards showing me listed as covered dependent from 2013 - 2016 (we currently have separate medical insurance because it made more sense financially)

     

    the house we live in is owned by my mother, so she wrote a notarized affidavit stating that we have been living here since we got married in 2013 and that we are responsible for all utilities

    utility bills (this one is tough as none of our utilities allow two people as acct holders and I wasn’t able to get previous statements except from cable company going all the way back to 2013) electric in his name I will send 2018 statements and I have an old statement showing that the account has been active since feb 2013 at our current residence. Water is in my name I can show statements as early as 2014, cable is in his name and sadly we could only get 2017, 2018 statements so not sure what to do here?

     

    my credit is terrible so we don’t have any other joint accounts but I do have one secured card to try to rebuild my credit and I just added him as an authorized user, the problem is his card won’t appear in past statements should I just go ahead send a copy of the credit cards only?And explain our financial situation? 

     

    Sending vet bills showing us both as responsible for our dog +pictures

     

    Im also sending copies of our annual disney passes, membership cards to AAA, costco cards

     

    two affidavits from family

     

    About 30 different bills sent to each of us at our residence from 2013 until today

     

    pictures of us, family and friends over the years and cards addressed to both of us and each other

     

    honestly not sure what else to send 😕 

    Cool background ^_^ I think you guys are even more solid than my husband and me, in terms of the case and documents. My husband was in and out of work a few times since we got married, so all the insurance are under me with him as beneficiary or covered dependent. Some of his W2 even had wrong address (I never noticed that until I put them together for RFE response because IRS was fine with that lol :dead: ). We don't even have a dog haha, just the two of us against the world :yes:

     

    Like i mentioned, the officer who sent me the RFE had clearly stated in the RFE like so:

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    You submitted:

    - your conditional green card picture

    - tax returns years blah

    - two affidavits

    - a joint monthly rental agreement with other co-tenants and a rental application. You may wish to submit an explanation which will establish the relationship of the co-tenant to you and your spouse. Additionally, there is no evidence to show a shared residence for the duration of your marriage since this is a month to month agreement.

    - blah blah more regular stuff (insurance and picture)

    So that above was the only thing that actually matters in the RFE, everything else was just suggestion, nice to have. I also went to 1 lawyer just to hear from a legal professional perspective. He said "don't submit again what you did, submit new things to prove continuous of the relationship, also go strong on the affidavits, they suggest 2, you may go 3 to overwhelm them. And also make sure you go straight to the point when you explain things, don't write them 5 pages cover letter, keep it within 2 pages, else they might skip some important words". I went for 5 affidavits by the way :P In my cover letter I pretty much did bullet points saying "I'm respectfully submitting this because ... or to prove ... " and so on.

     

    Our insurance was new too because I got a new job last year, so I submit those with explanation so they won't think I was re-submitting stuff. Same goes for credit card, since we lost the one we submitted, we had new card with new number, threw in an explanation and submit that. And other stuff like you guys did above.

     

    Regarding the rental situation, I stayed honest: We started our lives together at ground 0 (no money - even though my job paid well so we didn't need a sponsor but we obviously needed time to save up - and average credit), so 3 years ago, all we could afford was sharing a small room in a house with other people (like stated above). And of course utilities were paid with rent and weren't under our names. Only until I got my new job (by then we had some money saved up and my credit was improved a lot), we were able to sign our first apartment lease (yay!). I couldn't contact the co-tenants anymore but lucky for me the landlord responded and agreed to write me the affidavit stating that we were living together in his property for the length of the rental and that utilities were under him and we paid him together with rental. Same goes for the other place. :yes:

     

    So if they were also questioning your living situation, by all means find ways to explain that, tell them the stories, ask for witnesses to vouch for you. Explain why you don't have utilities bill under your names, and if you mother is your landlord, well jack pot :D She can write you some good words (mine did, we just didn't live with her, we came home to visit her together ;)). Letters from doctors are great too, they are the ones with high social status and thus are trustworthy and respected. I got two from my chiropractor and the care physician.

     

    I also had a friend of mine from work proof reading my cover letter to prove any random person who doesn't know me well can still understand why I did what I did from the explanation and evidence that I provided.

     

    Hope this help!

    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted

    On 11/3/2018 at 4:56 PM, calliz said:

    Thanks so much!

    im submitting also bank statements from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, more pictures, even records of the dog we have since we don’t have children due to a medical condition I have,  should I go ahead and explain that?  

    Hey sorry for the late response, i was traveling for work the last few days, hope this didnt hold up your progress.

     

    I shouldn't tell you what not to do, but I can share with you that my husband and I don't have children either, and it's simply our choice. We don't want kids, we'd rather live our lives together to the fullest and focus on our careers for now, especially me. I just simply cant imagine myself giving up my career to be a mother just yet. So I didn't mention anything about kids when I first submitted the case as well as when I responded to the RFE. I simply went with what we have, provided explanation, supporting evidence for those things. For example, I submitted our join checking account bank statement, so I included a brief explanation in the cover letter that they would find the statement on page 30 (I put all the docs in a binder and marked the pages accordingly), and within the statement they should find transactions of rent, utilities payments and so on. I felt like if i included what we don't have and try to explain them, it was just going to create more doubts and confusions. If they don't specifically ask about it in the RFE, I don't see why I need to explain myself. That was what I thought :) But yeah, doggy sounds cute and very persuasive since he is an important part of your life, send them a pic of you guys doing things together with doggy, I think that's cute :jest:

    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

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    10 hours ago, BlueBuy said:

     

    Thanks for the inputs. In my case she is not working so

     

     

    I see, well i hope you guys will be able to gather up whatever evidence you have to support your case, anything will help :) My husband was out of work for a while and we moved to different places and even different state every year so our shared residence was raised as a concern. We had to ask for affidavits from people that knew about us and could vouch for us instead. Lucky for us that was enough and my case was approved. So best of luck to you guys!

    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

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    On 10/23/2018 at 6:20 AM, calliz said:

    Hi everyone, I received an RFE yesterday regarding our case. Two questions, can I travel abroad while rfe is pending?i have a trip this coming Friday.

     

    Depends:

    - Is your extension (extension letter or passport stamp -- assuming your physical card has long expired by now) still good for the length of the trip (i.e. it doesn't expire before you need to re-enter US)? If so then you are A-OK :), if not then you should get a new passport stamp before traveling.
    - Will you return before the deadline of responding to the RFE to submit it in time? (The first page of RFE tells you when is deadline and it is a hard deadline, if you miss it then your case is done most likely :unsure:) If you won't, submit before you go I would guess. My case was approved exactly 1 month after I mailed in the response so if you want to be there for the status when it comes then make sure you plan accordingly.

    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

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    On 10/23/2018 at 5:04 AM, BlueBuy said:

    Hi, If USCIS Send RFE Which documents they look for and which docs better to keep safe?

    Submit anything that will support your case and keep safe things that might cause confusions, doubts, cannot be explained etc (like sometimes my husband and I argued about chicken dinner via text messages while we were at work ... definitely keep that to yourself :jest:) but submit things like pictures, tickets, receipts of events did together, tax returns, whatever financial things you share with each other, affidavits from real people around definitely a strong support too.

     

    Good luck!

    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted

    On 10/23/2018 at 6:20 AM, calliz said:

    Hi everyone, I received an RFE yesterday regarding our case. Two questions, can I travel abroad while rfe is pending?i have a trip this coming Friday.

     

    second question, the letter said I need more evidence regarding living together, financial commingling as well as any power of attorney etc. The problem is my husband and I decided from the Beginning we wouldn’t be sharing a bank acct and for the last 5 years we have lived in a house that my parents own any ideas on how I can show more evidence. We have actually been married for 5 years and together for 8. Also initially I also only sent the tax return of 2014 as2015 had an error and we had to resubmit it.

    im thinking of sending:

     

    2014 tax return - again

    2015 tax return

    2016 tax return

    2017 tax return

     

    401k from 2016-2017 with him as beneficiary of my policy

    life insurance, short term disability and accident insurance for 2016, 2017, showing him as beneficiary

    and same for him showing me as beneficiary

    condo insurance showing us both as insured parties

    geico insurance showing both of our names for 2016, 2017, 2018

    Current 401k showing me as beneficiary and showing him as beneficiary on mine 

    ive added him as an authorized user to my credit card and he has done the same for one of his credit cards

    energy, water, cable, and phone, although these do not have both of our names because the companies only let us add one we can show we are both responsible for the bulk of utilities bills at the same address.

    copy of our DL showing same address

     any other ideas?? Thank you 

     

    What you have already submitted shouldn't be submitted again. You should just submit new documents to support your case. I got an RFE too. In my RFE, the officer said that the copy of month-to-month room rental agreement wasn't enough to prove share residence. I was actually offended reading that, but then I took a deep breath, suppress my feelings and worked on the response so that it clear to the officer why we did what we did. I also went and ask for more affidavit letters from people that I thought would be strong witnesses: my mother, the landlord from those places that we shared room at, even our chiropractor as well. It worked :)
    Besides that, I submitted new tax returns, new insurance policies from my new employer, new pictures, new flight tickets, new hotel receipts, new everything. I got approved about a month after I submitted my response.

     

    Hope this help and best of luck to you guys!

    I-751 March 2017 Filers, Part II

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted

    On 10/15/2018 at 1:32 PM, ianf77 said:

    Another card in production email today!!!!...Wife and I are approaching 5 years married come Feb19. This has been a long one!

     

    Filed March 2017

    I551 Stamp March 2018

    Case Transferred to TX June 2018

    RFE - July 2017

    Sent RFE Package - Arrived October 9th

    Received 'Card in Production' email today October 15th

     

    Im assuming a card in production means approval?

    Yep! I got Card in production notification first, 2 days later case approval online status then 2 days later approval letter in the mail. Now only waiting for the card :dance:

    I-751 March 2017 Filers

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted

    On 7/21/2018 at 7:38 AM, Dree said:

    I hope we are approved soon because the new immigration rules are harsh and unforgivable:

     

    https://splinternews.com/trump-administration-escalates-attacks-on-legal-immigra-1827724891/amp

     

    good luck to everyone!!!!

    On 7/22/2018 at 7:28 AM, forze said:

    So in other words no more RFE's?????

     

    woah ... considering myself lucky? I got RFE last week ... prepping my response atm.^_^

     

     

    I-751 March 2017 Filers

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, AnGeLxX said:

    Try not to worry, they will tell you what they are missing in the RFE letter. I had an RFE in March and got approved in April. They wanted to see proof of utility bills or mortgage, things we don't have at the moment. 

     

    You can try to explain those things in a letter why you don't have it, maybe some affidavits from family or friends that know you and your situation. That is what we did. 

    Thanks @AnGeLxX I will keep you guys posted when the physical letter arrives and what I would do in the response to the request.

    I-751 March 2017 Filers

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Rocdoc said:

    I know thats not the news you were hopping for but at least there is movement on your case. Was your case transferred anywhere? NSC/TSC/NBC?

    Yes, my case was transferred to TSC on June 19th then I filed for address change on July 5th because I moved back to California and I got a text at 3:30am this morning that they took action on the case. I checked myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov and saw RFE notice. I'm a little worried since we didn't have a lot of things together, we were poor when we got married, didn't have anything to own, we shared rooms for a couple of years before we got our first apartment :mellow: I don't know what more to show except for pictures and what I already provided them.

    I-751 March 2017 Filers

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by tiffynets

    So ... March 2017 filer, my case was transferred to Texas Service Center on June 19th 2018. I couldn't find the processing time for that service center on form I-751 so I called USCIS customer service instead. And I was told wait time of 6 months from June 19th until I could make an inquiry about the case. Should I freak out now :crying::crying::crying::crying:

    I-751 March 2017 Filers

    in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion

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    32 minutes ago, Ktone said:

    Ok guys, I need to pick your brain a bit.

     

    I think I lost my driver's license (or maybe stolen :/) ..... and I remember last time I went to my local DMV to change only my address on the license, they refused to do so despite the fact that I presented my expired green card AND the extension letter along with other documents I needed to prove my new address. They told me to come back once the renewal has been approved. I wonder how I can re-issue the driver's license. How were you guys able to get the new license while the I-751 was in pending?

     

    I have the appointment to get the passport stamped on July 5th, but I need to drive 2 hours without the license if DMV refuses to re-issue the license.... The life is tough.... :jest:

    I had a hard time renewing my DL too even with a 6 moths extension from the passport stamp, but I insisted so they finally let me. And they can't issue DL to you for any longer than your current extension period, also factor in the 3 weeks protocol it might take for the new DL to reach you, if your doc expires before that, they would have all the reasons not to let you renew. If no one could drive you, what about public transportation or Uber?

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