REQUIREMENT SHOWING JOINT OCCUPANCY

[mylntn0313 0]

Hi, im preparing my documents to submit for my I-751 & i found out that 1 of the requirements is:

Lease or mortgage contracts showing joint occupancyand/or ownership of your communal residence

We don't have this evidence as we only live w/ my mother in law. Will this be a problem?

[Marilyn. 340]

it is not really a "requirement".. if that were true you would also need to include BC of your children but what if you don't have children...

that being said, maybe you could get your mother-in-law to write a letter stating that you live with her....

The documents should cover, but not limited to,the following examples:

1. Birth certificate(s) of child(ren) born to the marriage.

2. Lease or mortgage contracts showing joint occupancy and/or ownership of your communal residence.

3. Financial records showing joint ownership of assets and joint responsibility for liabilities, such as joint savings and checking accounts, joint federal and state tax returns,insurance policies that show the other spouse as the beneficiary, joint utility bills, joint installments or other loans.

4. Other documents you consider relevant to establish that your marriage was not entered into in order to evade the U.S. immigration laws.

5. Affidavits sworn to or affirmed by at least two people who have known both of you since your conditional residence was granted and have personal knowledge of your marriage and relationship. (Such persons may be required to testify before an immigration officer as to the information contained in the affidavit.) The original affidavit must be submitted and also contain the following information regarding the person making the affidavit:his or her full name and address; date and place of birth;relationship to you or your spouse, if any; and full information and complete details explaining how the person acquired his or her knowledge. Affidavits must be supported by other types of evidence listed above.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-751instr.pdf

[James 2]

For all intents and purposes, it is a requirement. CIS does want proof that you are living together, or a plausible explanation why you are not living together. The purpose of the I-751 is to demonstrate to CIS that you did not enter into the marriage to avoid the immigration laws. Failure to show that you live together, or that you have a good reason for not living together, gives rise to a very strong inference of immigration fraud, and will at the very least lead to an RFE.

Rather than just a letter, draft a statement by your mother-in-law and plug it into the affidavit provided in the Example Forms section linked at the top of the page. Get the affidavit notarized and submit that as your proof of shared living arrangements.

[Scalpel 14]

Sound advice. Seconded.

For all intents and purposes, it is a requirement. CIS does want proof that you are living together, or a plausible explanation why you are not living together. The purpose of the I-751 is to demonstrate to CIS that you did not enter into the marriage to avoid the immigration laws. Failure to show that you live together, or that you have a good reason for not living together, gives rise to a very strong inference of immigration fraud, and will at the very least lead to an RFE.

Rather than just a letter, draft a statement by your mother-in-law and plug it into the affidavit provided in the Example Forms section linked at the top of the page. Get the affidavit notarized and submit that as your proof of shared living arrangements.

[diadromous mermaid 36]

For all intents and purposes, it is a requirement. CIS does want proof that you are living together, or a plausible explanation why you are not living together. The purpose of the I-751 is to demonstrate to CIS that you did not enter into the marriage to avoid the immigration laws. Failure to show that you live together, or that you have a good reason for not living together, gives rise to a very strong inference of immigration fraud, and will at the very least lead to an RFE.

Rather than just a letter, draft a statement by your mother-in-law and plug it into the affidavit provided in the Example Forms section linked at the top of the page. Get the affidavit notarized and submit that as your proof of shared living arrangements.

A lease or mortgage doesn't demonstrate that the couple are residing together, all it shows is that they are both taking on the financial obligation.

To the OP, absent a lease or mortgage, there are plenty of ways to show you live with your spouse. Your home has a mailbox, doesn't it? Do you both receive mail there? Do you both use that address on driver's licenses, membership, subscriptions, bills, credit cards?