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[speshul steph 0]

Ok - just counted - 263 pages - although that also includes the section dividers. I two hole punched everything and put it in an acco holder with tabs separating sections at the bottom.

If you don't mind my asking, what were your sections?

I'm getting my packet ready and I'm not sure how best to divide my evidence into sections. I will have a tab for the I-751 itself and a tab for the copy of my husband's passport and permanent resident card. But other than that, I'm not sure what else would warrant its own tab and what else should just be lumped together. So far I'm sending 19 different documents and I obviously don't want 19 tabs!

Any advice from anyone would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Of course I don't mind:-).

Ok - here are the divisions (and the reasons why if not self-evident):

1. 1-751 petition

2. Identification (green card, Drivers Licenses, Military ID)

3. Tax Documents

4. Wills

5. Financial Documents - Joint Accounts (3 joint accounts, IRAs and CDs)

6. AMEX Credit Card statements (joint account)

7. Expenses paid by Kathryn for home (Joe pays our ongoing utilities, etc. on-line but household maintenance or one time expense I pay and the invoices are addressed to me so showing my involvement in household financial responsibilities)

8. Sprint Family Plan Phone invoices

9. Car Ownership (including joint loan payments, registration, insurance, maintenance, and AAA cards)

10. Life Insurance Policies

11. Pension Information (showing each other as beneficiaries)

12. Health Insurance Documents (including joint health cards, benefits statements, invoices)

13. Cats (I moved my 6 cats - now 5 - with me so evidence related to their move and living here)

14. Travel evidence (5 trips to both our families including photos with each other's families)

15. Kathryn's Employment

16. Correspondence (personal from friends and family to both of us and mentioning joint activities or visits, etc.)

17. Miscellaneous (address change notification, moving van delivery of belongings, online HOA listing for our address and names, magazine subscriptions)

Since we have been married nearly 4 years I included samples from each year to show an ongoing and continual relationship. Be sure to include documentation that covers the span of your marriage, not just the earliest or the most recent. Hehehe, if you haven't been married as long as we have your application certainly won't be as heavy so don't worry!

Itemize what you include either in the cover letter or in a separate table of contents if you think that warranted:-).

I also went through and used yellow highlighter to highlight my husband's and my names and the dates on the documents so they could make the connections more quickly.

Good luck!

Edited March 7, 2008 by Kathryn41

[Sister Fracas 5]

263 pages?!?!?!?!?

I'm doomed...

But seriously, if I didn't have enough evidence, after wiaitng nearly a year what would be the chances of getting an RFE? That's what I worry about more than anything.

Edited March 7, 2008 by Sister Fracas

[katand7 0]

I think the phrase is "brass tacks" .......... I haven't heard the other one and can't quite figure out what it might stand for.

(I'm just trying to lighten it up!)

[Spiderette 0]

Weight has no bearing.

Mine was only 58 pages, of which 34 were 2005 & 2006's tax returns and 15 of which were leases for 2004 to 2005, 2005 to 2006 and 2007 to 2008. (our copy from the accountant)

I included:

What I think was "required"

Application, 2 pages

Copy of green card, back and front and son's birth certificate, all on 1 page

Property lease in both our names for 3 years, 15 pages

2005 & 2006 tax returns, 34 pages

State Farm insurance statement, showing both our names, I circled his truck and put "Norm's truck" next to it, and the same with my car, 1 page

Humana (health insurance) quarterly statement, I circled my name, his name and our son's name on it, 1 page

"Other"

Front page of recent bank statement, showing statement date and both our names, 1 page

Recent Nicor (gas) bill in his name, 1 page

Recent ComEd (electric) bill in my name, 1 page

Affidavit from our mutual friend, it was not notarized, 1 page

[Marilyn. 340]

I don't know how many pages I sent in or the weight but it all fit into one of those letter size envelope things...

I didn't include all the pages of the tax returns or all the pages of the bills just the pages that showed a joint account and the address....