Finally sending in my app for removal of conditions...

[Kajikit 65]

It had to get postponed a couple of times because things came up (like a vacation and my husband getting sick)... but it was a good thing because a few more bits of evidence came in during the last month. So this is what I've got to send in. (everything is a copy of course, except the actual application...)

- cover letter

- application to remove conditions

- permanent resident card

- my social security card with the address attached

- 2004, 2005, 2006 tax returns from H&R Block

- matching driver's licenses showing same address.

- DH's Insurance benefits summary for 2007 showing me as spouse/dependant.

- dental insurance statement for me from Oct showing DH's name as inusrance holder.

- matching eyeglass statements (I broke my glasses so we got DH reading glasses at the same time)

- joint lease for our apartment ending in April 2008

- bank statements from our three accounts (one statement for each account per year we've had it open)

- letter from the bank re our account balance in November.

- Best Buy letter approving our joint credit card

- Pet Insurance paperwork for our two cats

- Vet reminders for our cats from 2005

- Receipt letter for donations to our church this year

- his-and-hers donation checks from our old church.

- Friends of the Library newsletter from the local library with a 'thankyou for volunteering' to me in it.

- Broward Folk Club newsletter addressed to both of us

- Junk mail from the christian bookshop, addressed to both of us

- a couple of envelopes/christmas cards.

- memorabilia, hotel invoice and photos from our trip to a sci-fi convention in 2006

- Ditto for a different convention in 2007

- Half a dozen random pages from our scrapbook from our wedding onwards.

And I certainly hope that's enough to satisfy them! We can't send in bills because they're all in DH's name... ditto the car and insurance (I don't even drive). And we don't have any kids so there are no birth certificates etc. DH's sisters offered to write letters for us, but they're both out of state visiting family until the end of the year, so it's too late for that. We have photos of us and them together in the package. I've included EVERYTHING I could think of to put in! Does it look okay?

[LoveLove 0]

I thought 2 letters are mandatory... isn't it?

[Kajikit 65]

Nobody else has any advice for me? Should I be panicking because we don't have any letters... well, if they want them now they'll have to RFE me for them. Since nobody pointed out any glaring omissions, the package is going in the mail this afternoon.

[eau_xplain 2]

Your list looks good. Letters are not mandatory. They will require it if there are not enough evidence to show intermingling of finances.

Good luck!

Edited December 10, 2007 by eau_xplain

[RichardS 0]

NOT TO WORRY!!

Letters are NOT mandatory ... they are just another form of evidence that you may wish to submit!

Good luck!

[Kajikit 65]

I decided we probably had enough without them... I dredged up EVERYTHING I could think of to show that we did stuff together (like church), and there's 65 pages of stuff in the package! If that's not enough to show that we're really married, I don't know what is... I just finished tidying the packet up and added in some 'real' junkmail and envelopes just so not everything is a photocopy, and in about half an hour it's off to the bank to get the cashier's cheque. And then it's in the mail. Whew!

[Kajikit 65]

And it's in the mail Now to wait... and wait... and wait! And hope that Texas passes it along to CSC for rubber-stamping like they did my first app.

[Jasman0717 9]

The letters aren't mandatory. You need them if you don't have enough of the other evidence. Don't do what we did and use the wrong I-751. I feel like a bonehead now

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

That list looks good enough to me. Don't worry about them letters. IMHO, they're a dime a dozen anyways...

Cheers!