Sending I-751 in One Week - Final Questions

[florida-photo 0]

1. Has there ever been a consensus on notarizing or not notarizing the affidavits? As usual the USCIS couldn't be more vague in their instructions.

2. I read the USCIS suggestions for assembing the package (two-hole punch ACCO fasteners, etc.). It says to use tabs on the bottom to separate the attachments. Does anyone know what kind of tabs they are talking about? I'll be stopping by the office supply store next week and I want to pickup the fasteners and tabs.

3. Any suggestions for organizing photos? Place them in some plastic sleeves or just clip them together in a stack?

Thanks!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I have heard people sending in both notarized and non-notarized affidavits. As we didn't send in any I can't help you there.

Regarding the tabs on the bottom of the application - I just used the coloured plastic tabs you stick on the page or the page divider between each section of related documents. I think whatever works is fine as long as they are on the bottom and acco-fastened at top.

I interspersed the photographs where they fit in best with documentary evidence - for example, family Christmas trips I included the photograph portrait with the travel documentation, etc. I either acco fastened them into the package or attached them to a page and acco-fastened the page.

Edited December 27, 2008 by Kathryn41

[Dakine 26]

I had ours notarized.

I used tabs at the bottom on our original petition I-129F . Saw they had ripped them off and the papers were all ripped at the bottom when we did the AOS interview. Didn't do any tabs when we filed the I-751.

Printed out 9 photos per page with captions.

I used a 2 hole punch at the top with ACCOs thruout the immigration process.

[Alex::::Moscow::: 0]

Notarize it. (An affidavit is a formal sworn statement of fact, signed by the declarant (who is called the affiant or deponent) and witnessed (as to the veracity of the affiant's signature) by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public)

Don’t do tabs. I printed cover sheet for every piece (category) of evidence I had and clipped all items together.