Evidence - that does not span entire 2 year period

[Journeyer 17]

Maybe this is a silly question, but. My wife and I have a joint bank account, but we have only had it since last year. She has a pension and her own bank account, and since I pay all the bills and she has her own money to spend, we just never saw much reason for it, but then decided to do it anyway. So I have read here several times that evidence MUST span the entire 2 year conditional residence.

So my question is, should I include joint bank account statements anyway? All of the rest of our evidence spans the entire period, including:

Joint state and federal tax returns.

Joint lease agreement.

Joint renters insurance.

Joint car insurance.

Joint health care coverage through my work.

Her being a beneficiary on my life insurance.

Lot of pictures including with both her and my family.

Seems like I have enough evidence, but I was sort of curious if it would be bad to include the joint bank account since it's more recent.

[nightingalejules 678]

Include it. I'm sure they will understand that different couples manage their financial lives differently.

[Journeyer 17]

Include it. I'm sure they will understand that different couples manage their financial lives differently.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know some couples that have been married for a long time and don't have joint bank accounts. I'm going to include it, just was curious if they will consider it or if it's a hard set rule that they won't consider things that aren't going back 2 years.

[victorian221b 12]

They will if the other evidences are just as compelling.

Like an extreme example will be (which I'm sure most people don't do), sending in a one-year worth of joint bank statements and then pictures - that's it. That wouldn't really help.

Good luck!

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know some couples that have been married for a long time and don't have joint bank accounts. I'm going to include it, just was curious if they will consider it or if it's a hard set rule that they won't consider things that aren't going back 2 years.

[caly 48]

I say include it as well. We only opened our joint bank account about 10 months pior to submitting our I-751 petition. Just got approved today with no RFE.. It certainly won't hurt your petition in any way.

[Nicolle32 4]

Include whatever joint account you have . We open a joint account 3 months prior to me submitting all the evidence and I got approved:) Good luck

[Journeyer 17]

Include whatever joint account you have . We open a joint account 3 months prior to me submitting all the evidence and I got approved:) Good luck

Thanks, everyone, for the replies.

We only opened our joint bank account in Oct of last year, so only 5 months now. Like I said, we just didn't see the need and life goes on with us folks who have to go through all of this just because the person we found to spend our life with happens to not be a US citizen. As I was saying, my wife has her own account and she does buy most of our groceries and buys other things for they house, while I pay all bills. She also helps out on trips and just bought me airline tickets, as she has done in the past.

The decision to open the account has nothing at all to do with the ROC process.

Oh well, all of my other evidence spans the entire 2 years, so hopefully everything will be good.

[sunshine79 7]

While it never hurts to send a lot of evidence, I don't think it's a MUST. We did not send two years worth of everything. We didn't even have a lease or mortgage but our address has been consistent throughout the entire immigration process. Here's what we sent:

Copy of Green Card

Two affidavits (father-in-law and brother-in-law, not notarized)

Tax transcripts for three years

Copy of life insurance policies showing each other as beneficiaries.

Most current bank statement at time of filing, both names.

Car insurance ID with both names.

Loan statements for car and other merchandise, just one months worth.

Health cards with both names.

Travel records of us traveling together.

Assortment of photographs of us with each other and with family. All pictures had both of us in them.