Documents referring to you and your spouse

[faylen 0]

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Documents referring to you and your spouse:

Tax returns, bank accounts, leases, mortgages, or birth certificates of children

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Do I need to send all these or are the childrens birth certificates suffice? And if I were to send the tax return, what part? Should I send ALL the pages? And do I also send the last 3 years?

[YuAndDan 153]

If you are applying for naturalization based on your marriage to a U.S. citizen, send the following four items:

1. Evidence that your spouse has been a U.S. citizen for the last three years:
   • Birth certificate (if your spouse never lost citizenship since birth), or

   • Naturalization Certificate, or

   • Certificate of Citizenship, or

   • The inside of the front cover and signature page of your spouse's current U.S. passport, or

   • Form FS-240, "Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States of America," and
2. Your current marriage certificate, and

3. Proof of termination of all prior marriages of your spouse - divorce decree(s), annulment(s), or death certificate(s); and

4. Documents referring to you and your spouse:
   • Tax returns, bank accounts, leases, mortgages, or birth certificates of children, or

   • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - certified copies of the income tax forms that you both filed for the past three years, or

   • An IRS tax return transcript for the last three years.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00048f3d6a1RCRD Great Checklist.

You can get transcripts for FREE from the IRS http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq1-6.html

[faylen 0]

If you are applying for naturalization based on your marriage to a U.S. citizen, send the following four items:

1. Evidence that your spouse has been a U.S. citizen for the last three years:
   • Birth certificate (if your spouse never lost citizenship since birth), or

   • Naturalization Certificate, or

   • Certificate of Citizenship, or

   • The inside of the front cover and signature page of your spouse's current U.S. passport, or

   • Form FS-240, "Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States of America," and
2. Your current marriage certificate, and

3. Proof of termination of all prior marriages of your spouse - divorce decree(s), annulment(s), or death certificate(s); and

4. Documents referring to you and your spouse:
   • Tax returns, bank accounts, leases, mortgages, or birth certificates of children, or

   • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - certified copies of the income tax forms that you both filed for the past three years, or

   • An IRS tax return transcript for the last three years.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00048f3d6a1RCRD Great Checklist.

You can get transcripts for FREE from the IRS http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq1-6.html

thanks. i have already read this information, but what i'm wondering is, since it does say "OR", you're pretty much given a choice, if i'm not mistaken, right? or am i reading it wrong?

Documents referring to you and your spouse:

Tax returns, bank accounts, leases, mortgages, or birth certificates of children, or

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - certified copies of the income tax forms that you both filed for the past three years, or

An IRS tax return transcript for the last three years.

i know that a lot of people here send a transcript, but it's going to take another 2 weeks just for it to arrive. i intend to send this by thursday since we're leaving for a vacation over the weekend.

anyway, here's what i have so far. i guess it's better if i just write it and you can tell me if this is enough.. or not:

1. copy of hubby's passport

2. copy of all our kids birth certificates

3. our marriage certificate

4. tax returns from the last 3 years (a whopping total of approx 30+ pages)

both of us had never been married previously, so obviously there aren't any documentation to send as proof of this.

[YuAndDan 153]

Yes, OR = Pick one.

[faylen 0]

Yes, OR = Pick one.

haha. thanks again. anyway, i was just reading another thread regarding the biometrics. just lately, the tip of my right middle finger managed to get some sort of dermatitis or eczema or something. well the bottom line is, the skins been peeling quite a lot. will they ask me to come back at a later time when my finger is nice and clean? i know, so random. but i couldn't help it.

[Angel7422 0]

Hi Everyone,

My husband and I are preparing his N400 documents but I have a question. Do/Should I include copies of bills with both of our names on it? I send stuff like this when we filed for removal of conditions and I am wondering if I need to send copies of joint phone bills, cable bills, etc. with the N400 documents. Also do I need to include a copy of a joint mortgage deed? I am sure these questions have been asked over and over but I cant seem to find those posts. So if anyone could please answer you could save me the trouble of not sending a novel if i dont have to. Thanks.

[NickD 203]

Hi Everyone,

My husband and I are preparing his N400 documents but I have a question. Do/Should I include copies of bills with both of our names on it? I send stuff like this when we filed for removal of conditions and I am wondering if I need to send copies of joint phone bills, cable bills, etc. with the N400 documents. Also do I need to include a copy of a joint mortgage deed? I am sure these questions have been asked over and over but I cant seem to find those posts. So if anyone could please answer you could save me the trouble of not sending a novel if i dont have to. Thanks.

It's that three year thingy, if you wait five years, you don't have to send all that stuff in. With marriage to bring our loved one here, we had to go through a pile of ####### for lack of a better word to get that conditional green card if we were married less than two years. Then had to go through all that again with the I-751, but could send in a couple extra copies. At first with the American Patriot Act, and believe me, we don't have 25 million bucks to pay off a terrorist family, couldn't even add my wife to my two buck checking account or even as a beneficiary on my savings account that seemed totally ridiculous as this country of ours encourages foreign investments. Hell, even Fox is owned by a foreigner as well as RCA and a bunch of other former American countries. But since my wife got an EAD almost instantly, got her an SS card so she could work and pay taxes. That was okay, and by the time they played around issuing her first conditional green card, we could submit three joint tax returns for the I-751 application along with other proof that we share the same address.

At our initial interview, I could show a joint tax return, but when asked about savings and checking accounts, I just told her to check with Bush and his APA, she dropped that question instantly. But could show that with the I-751.

Point is, if you have already went through the I-751, you already proved your marriage, so with the N-400, you just did whatever you did for the I-751, again. So you already have experience in what to send. But apparently the USCIS doesn't know what they put you through to get that ten year card, but shouldn't that be proof enough? With my long winded over priced divorce attorneys for a divorce that occurred over 14 years ago, had to dig out that original and copy 55 pages all over again, that teed me off. Then I guess I have to bring that original with me to my wife's interview as well as hers.

In her country the man is favored in the courts and in this country, the woman and even though we both got full custody, we got screwed and are trying to forget that. But the USCIS won't let us do that.