Is online bank statement good or need original ones?

[jasonxx 0]

hello, the interview officer asked me to supply supporting documents including my most recent bank statements, since i have chosen not to have paper statement to save trees, I don't have any original bank statement. Does anyone know is the statement I printed from my online banking good as supporting documents or do i need to order actual statement from the bank?

[*JG* 2]

I've used my online bank statements for our K-1, our AOS, and now our soon to file LOC petitions. I've had no issues.

As a side note, I also use online bill pay so ALL my bills were online statements too. No issues.

I think they are pretty used to this by now.

Good luck to you!

[Waiting4GC 0]

Online Bank Statement should be fine. I never, in the last 5 - 6 years I've been dealing with USCIS, provided paper statements that are sent in the mail. For my N400 Interview, I just printed the latest bank statement, one from the end of the year 2007 and one from almost 6 years ago when my husband and I joined our accounts. The officer had not problems with it. All she did was look at them and then she returned them to me. My interview was in Cleveland, OH.

[jasonxx 0]

Online Bank Statement should be fine. I never, in the last 5 - 6 years I've been dealing with USCIS, provided paper statements that are sent in the mail. For my N400 Interview, I just printed the latest bank statement, one from the end of the year 2007 and one from almost 6 years ago when my husband and I joined our accounts. The officer had not problems with it. All she did was look at them and then she returned them to me. My interview was in Cleveland, OH.

Hi, Thanks for both of you guys. One of my friend said they needed original bank statement, she worked in an immigration law office about one yr ago so Im not sure if it is different now or what. Im really confused. Because the online statement I printed suppressed our address, but has other information on it. Since it is supporting document i have send by mail, so i don't know if it is different from when they look at it at interview in person.

[moonhunt 1]

Online Bank Statement should be fine. I never, in the last 5 - 6 years I've been dealing with USCIS, provided paper statements that are sent in the mail. For my N400 Interview, I just printed the latest bank statement, one from the end of the year 2007 and one from almost 6 years ago when my husband and I joined our accounts. The officer had not problems with it. All she did was look at them and then she returned them to me. My interview was in Cleveland, OH.

Hi, Thanks for both of you guys. One of my friend said they needed original bank statement, she worked in an immigration law office about one yr ago so Im not sure if it is different now or what. Im really confused. Because the online statement I printed suppressed our address, but has other information on it. Since it is supporting document i have send by mail, so i don't know if it is different from when they look at it at interview in person.

I think it should be fine. Most banks are preferred e-statements now, and even if you ask for copy of your bank statement, sometimes they just print our same screen that you see from your online bank website.

You can just print out e-statement or online bank screen in the morning of interview date or the day before it.

If they have question about your e-statement, you can just point out bank phone number and ask interview officer to call them up to verify account holder and current balance information.

I used e-statement/online bank statement for various occasions such as embassy interview and USCIS, and had no problem.

If you still have doubt about that, you can ask your bank to write formal letter to USCIS, which states accound holder's name / address, history (how old the bank account was opened), and current bank account in bank official letterhead.

Edited August 2, 2008 by moonhunt

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

Im really confused. Because the online statement I printed suppressed our address, but has other information on it.

We used online statements for my IR-1 too, like the others we had no problems at all. Like you, the online statement doesn't show the address/ full name of the account holder, but there was another page we could print out which had the account number and the address (but no financial info), so we just printed out both and stapled them together.

[NickD 203]

Im really confused. Because the online statement I printed suppressed our address, but has other information on it.

We used online statements for my IR-1 too, like the others we had no problems at all. Like you, the online statement doesn't show the address/ full name of the account holder, but there was another page we could print out which had the account number and the address (but no financial info), so we just printed out both and stapled them together.

We paid our fees from our joint checking account with both our names and address preprinted on the check, copied that wrote sample on it and used that as evidence. They know our check is good, they cashed it soon enough, didn't read anything about them asking for a financial statement, but already did that with the I-864 and I-864A. All you need to open a checking account is a SS card and driver's license, well and a couple of bucks, did send them copies of our SS cards and driver's license, feel a checking account is a weak form of evidence as any utility bill, can put any name on those. Passbook savings and CD accounts are done directly at that bank so copied those just as some extras. Home deed, property tax bill are certainly greater forms of evidence, you don't get hitched to bring a person in and put them on your home. Seems like getting married in some states should be enough evidence that you are married, for the license, a complete background check to make sure you are free to get married, then the state certificate of that marriage.

If they are concerned about prenuptial agreements, worthless in WI, conflicts with state laws, once you tie the knot, you are completely financially responsible for each other and all property becomes communal within the marriage. Not worth marrying a person to bring them in, you put them in a position to completely clean you out. Then they want three complete years of your joint tax returns with the W-2's, interest statements, 1099's etc., that pretty much covers it all.

Ha, try and get a medical and dental insurance card on a family plan without proof of marriage or the kids are actually yours, that should be an excellent form of proof that you are married, they don't let you add kids for free, could list the whole neighbor for that if it were that easy, before they pay out a single buck, they want to be darn sure those kids are legally yours. But they don't seem to be as strict as the USCIS in this respect and here we are talking about what could be huge claims. A family Auto insurance plan is another example of that, since one of my kids sells auto insurance, they know more about you then you know about yourself.

Did get interested in the history of US citizenship, have my grandfathers original forms, two sheets, one for immigration at Ellis Island, and a couple of months later, his citizenship paper, simple. But it seems somewhere between then and now they introduced this permanent resident status, didn't get the date on that. But the citizenship process sure became very complicated over the years especially with marriage with waiting times anywhere from 6 months to five years and more proof required each time congress met.

Well you don't exactly get a green card out of a Cracker Jack box, that required tons and tons of proof, but the N-400 application is just following the old history of development like the green card never existed. So you are starting all over again! Seems like walking in with a green card should be enough proof of your marriage and that was also done in two steps. Wife said during her interview she saw out over three high stack of evidence sitting on the IO's desk, and when she left, that stack was even higher. How much to they want?