Filing soon. Will this do for evidence of a bona fide marriage?

[GabiandVi 34]

I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row. I'm compiling my I-130 package. I will have all the listed items, of course, but I wanted to know if the following evidence will suffice to show a bona fide marriage. We don't have any evidence of co-mingling of finances because we live in China. The documents that would be in English would have been done through my school and therefore only in my name, etc. It's just too complicated. So this is what I have.

1. Photocopy of the birth certificate of our daughter.

2. Photocopy of the baptism record of our daughter naming my husband under his Christian name (which is not on his birth certificate).

3. Birth announcement of our daughter, again using my husband's Christian name.

4. Five pages of about 4 photos each of primarily my husband taken at my parents home, with a few of our daughter with his sisters and their children in his country, etc. There are only a couple of us as a family because I hate to have my picture taken. Also, all photos date from the last two years because my husband crashed our computer and lost all the photos taken before.

5. A photocopy of the 2 pages in my passport showing visas and entries to his country.

6. A photocopy of his and my most recent insurance cards which show him listed as my dependent using his official name.

Should I send an explanation of why we don't have proof of co-mingling of finances? We have credit cards that are in both our names, but I feel really uncomfortable sending photocopies of those.

I know the fact that we have a child together should be enough, but I've read in a couple of threads that people who have children together are having to produce DNA results prooving the parentage of the child, both maternal and paternal. Also, almost since the birth of our child, we have been living apart and have only seen each other for three weeks in the last year. This is because my husband has set up a business in his country and then become very busy with it so he couldn't come to China as planned. Then, once we decided to move to the US, we decided we wouldn't spend the money for a trip for him to China. We'll just meet in the US this summer when he visits on a B-2. Should I include an explanation of why we've been apart for so long? We aren't in the situation where visas are keeping us apart. My husband could live in China with us, but he couldn't work here.

Should I also explain why there are no photos of our marriage, etc.?

[Jeetyetkidd 0]

In my opinion you would be better off contacting those who attended your wedding to write a brief statement witnessing and approving of the marriage. The instruction form gives details on what to include in the affidavit. As for the finances, my wife and I do not have any to show either. I have just recently had her added to the cable and water bill.

[Niels Bohr 72]

In my opinion you would be better off contacting those who attended your wedding to write a brief statement witnessing and approving of the marriage. The instruction form gives details on what to include in the affidavit. As for the finances, my wife and I do not have any to show either. I have just recently had her added to the cable and water bill.

That's all you would need. I support finding witness, and have them sign a typed letter indicating that they know you and that the marriage is a bona fide relationship.

[GabiandVi 34]

In my opinion you would be better off contacting those who attended your wedding to write a brief statement witnessing and approving of the marriage. The instruction form gives details on what to include in the affidavit. As for the finances, my wife and I do not have any to show either. I have just recently had her added to the cable and water bill.

Thanks. No one actually attended the wedding. It's a long story. His mother died when I wedding was scheduled to take place, so we were married alone a few months later. But I could get my parents to sign an affadavit that the marriage is legitimate. Would their word be taken seriously as they are my parents?

Also, I had seen once how to complete an affadavit without a notary. I can't seem to find it again. Does anyone know where it is?

[lheeanne 0]

Also make a copy of your life Insurance that shows your husband and kid as your beneficiary. That was one of the proof that i send before together with those copy of remittances that i send to my husband .

[hopelives 0]

Also make a copy of your life Insurance that shows your husband and kid as your beneficiary. That was one of the proof that i send before together with those copy of remittances that i send to my husband .

Can your spouse be a beneficiary without an SSN-jim

[lheeanne 0]

After we got married my Employee change my beneficiary from my parents name to my Husbands name even without an SS.