Credit Card/Mobile phone statements?

[trillium13 84]

I have most of our ROC evidence available as paper statements, but I do wonder about our credit card and phone bills since we do all of our billing online.

As far as the phone bill, Verizon doesn't allow two separate account holders, so the phone is in my name with my husband as account manager. I had Verizon send me an email that states when he was added. Don't know what else to do there, does this sound ok? Even if I got paper statements I don't think he would be listed.

As far as the credit card, I have an email from them stating when he was added as joint account holder, and I can make a printout of our account profile listing both of our names. I don't have a range of paper statements or anything. Will this work?

Since many people do all of their bill paying online I would hope USCIS would give some consideration to this.

Thanks all!

[SuperDuper! 230]

I have most of our ROC evidence available as paper statements, but I do wonder about our credit card and phone bills since we do all of our billing online.

As far as the phone bill, Verizon doesn't allow two separate account holders, so the phone is in my name with my husband as account manager. I had Verizon send me an email that states when he was added. Don't know what else to do there, does this sound ok? Even if I got paper statements I don't think he would be listed.

As far as the credit card, I have an email from them stating when he was added as joint account holder, and I can make a printout of our account profile listing both of our names. I don't have a range of paper statements or anything. Will this work?

Since many people do all of their bill paying online I would hope USCIS would give some consideration to this.

Thanks all!

Why stress and risk it?

Get a phone card or service that shows that you call your girl. Even Skype letz you do this for free and print out the logs.

This is something you should not be stressing on because there are too many options that let you document the phone logs you need.

[richo_006 0]

I do most of our bills online too, like electric & gas. I called them and ask for a year's worth of paper bills and they told me that i can access it thru myonline account under bill statement history and print it out. So most of the bills that i sent are printed out online, even our banking statement as I do mine online. So ask them where can you print it online?

[Darnell 8,478]

Why stress and risk it?

Get a phone card or service that shows that you call your girl. Even Skype letz you do this for free and print out the logs.

This is something you should not be stressing on because there are too many options that let you document the phone logs you need.

ROC is a bit different, for these 'utility bills' proof. Phone Logs are not an issue on ROC, but evidence of financial co-mingling IS.

Edited September 30, 2010 by Darnell

[JoannaV 174]

The credit card is more compelling than the phone bill, as it shows mingling of financials whereas adding someone to your phone bill (or other utilities) doesn't have much risk attached. I don't know if a letter from the credit card company would be better than an email or not, but you could try asking for a physical letter. If the credit card is one account but you have two separate cards with different numbers then a print-out of an online statement showing you both use it might be good. If you can get a print-out showing how often you call each other then do so, but it's not going to be hugely important.

So long as you have some good solid evidence then that is enough; extra evidence is definitely useful but the quality of it doesn't need to be as good.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

If you have a joint bank-account, use the statement from it. Don't bother about credit-card of phone bills.

[v333k 59]

You can always call Verizon, credit card company, etc... and ask them to send you a letter stating that both of you have been and still are authorized users on the account. They should be able to do this for you.

[SerenityNOW 11]

Don't know if the OP is still in the filing process... but here's what I am doing for my application:

RE: Cell phone - I went online and found some section that broke down the phone/data/texting for each user so I printed out our current usage, which shows both of our names and our phone numbers on the same account.

Unfortunately, the bill itself is only in my name - he's just my Line #2 - but I found the bill online from when we first opened the account in 2009 and it broke down the usage of the different numbers, so I printed that.

RE: joint credit card. I printed the page that they sent our cards on! It has both of our names, our address and the actual cards. I just blacked out some of the numbers on the copy so I'm not giving it out to all the USCIS folks... I had this page on file, so I just taped down the cards where they were originally stuck on the paper.

Otherwise, I can find no evidence of him in my account information, as he is just a second card holder on my account. I actually found that odd that nowhere does his name appear on my online account information.

When I filed the I-130, I included some receipts signed by my husband and some signed by me - our respective names showed up on the receipts, since our names are on our cards. So that's an idea as well.

HTH - good luck!