Please review my packet for ROC

[Carrie1978 2]

Ok so Im sending off our ROC packet on July 7th or later that month and I want to know if what I have here seems to be substantial or if I will get an RFE for anything missing. I put together a letter detailing what is in the packet and included info on questions that they may have or concerns about certain items...do you think I should omit those to avoid drawing attention or is it good to get the info to them BEFORE they ask me about it? I dont know why Im so nervous about this form, I wasn't this nervous when we had to go through Morocco for the CR1!!!! Also do you think it is necessary to state the dates that things were active ie: medical insurance? I recently left my job since starting my actual nursing clinicals so like the health and dental insurance is no longer active so I didn't know if I should tell them when it was active. Any help you all have to offer would be greatly appreciated.

We are enclosing the following:

Form I-751

Extra-sheet for additional information for Form I-751

Application fee - $465 (plus $80 biometric service fee) in a check of $545.00

Copy of USCIS Form I-551 (Permanent Resident Card)

*Partial copy of US Federal and State Tax Returns (filed married) 2009

Copy of Drivers License showing same address (included is Carrie’s change of address form)

Partial copy of lease agreement for our current apartment (2009-current)

*Copy of lease termination from apartment (2008-2009)

Copy of current apartment recreational IDs

Copy of childrens’ school registration (showing address and parental relationship)

*Copy of current cable account (Amine’s name only)

Partial copy of a joint cable bill (From previous apartment 2008-2009)

Copy of joint debit card account with GE Bank

Copy of joint checking account with State Farm Bank

Copy of joint credit card with Capital One

Copy of car registration showing joint ownership (Chrysler Sebring)

Copy of car registration showing joint ownership (Dodge Caravan)

Copy of joint car insurance (Chrysler & Dodge) with State Farm

Copy of health insurance cards with Coventry (2008-2009)

Copy of dental insurance coverage with Humana Dental (2009-2010)

Copy of joint account at Costco (2009-current)

Copy of KC Zoo family membership (2009-2010)

Copy of our gym membership YMCA (2009)

Copy of Loan papers for Carrie’s financial aid (shows proof of address and relationship 2009)

Copy of joint finance paperwork for bedroom furniture (purchased 2008)

*Return tickets for Amine, Dorian, & Gwyneth from visit to Morocco (Return 12/28/09)

*Copy of passport pages for Amine, Dorian, & Gwyneth regarding trip to Morocco

*Amtrak tickets Carrie, Amine, Dorian, & Gwyneth from NYC (12/29/09)

*Hotel Reservation Confirmation NYC (12/28/09-12/29/09)

Affadavits from ???? (I haven't asked anybody yet to write one but I figure I will send two)

Various photographs capturing our life between 2008 and 2010.

Please note *** for clarification:

*The tax return for 2008 was filed head of household without Amine on the tax form per advice from my HRBlock tax professional since Amine was not a resident of the country until October 2008.

*The lease termination from our apartment (2008-2009) includes only Carrie’s name because the lease was signed on 10/05/2008 and they would not let Amine be included on the lease since he had no SSN at that time- we moved in the same day we arrived in Kansas-POE 10/04/2008.

*We have no utility bills other than cable because our apartment includes all utilities and our phone is through the cable connection.

*Dorian & Gwyneth (Amine’s stepchildren) went to Morocco May 2009 and spent the summer through the end of the year with their grandparents (Amine’s parents); Amine went to visit his family and be with the kids in November 2009 and stayed till the end of the December when the three of them returned together. Carrie was unable to go on this trip because of a conflict with current school program (currently a nursing student) and work. We all met on December 28, 2009 in NYC and stayed the night there and took a trip via train back home for a short vacation together.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Your evidence looks good. In your cover letter you can 'explain' some of those items you explained here about the lease termination and the tax returns. Be sure you include copies of joint accounts (eg.bank statements) and bills that cover the whole time of your marriage - not just one or two months. That was the main things I couldn't determine from your list. Other than that, it looks good.

[Carrie1978 2]

Do you think they will make a big issue of the 2008 tax return not being married jointly? I filed 2007 head of household also (we were married but he was still in Morocco) and used that one for our 864 support forms and they didn't mention anything. I could slap myself now for doing that, the tax rep said we wouldnt get anything back if I included him and that was a big tax return. Finding out now that if we had filed he would have been fine and we would have gotten even more of a tax return filing jointly!

[dhsplease 1]

This looks good. I would try and get a letter from the bank just stating that you have a joint account and just send that.

[Carrie1978 2]

Thanks for the input! Every positive response makes me feel that much more at ease

[Kathryn41 3,205]

If you feel it is to your benefit, you could file an amended tax return for the years in question, and if you receive an RFE or a question about the return, you could submit that. As it is, I would just address the situation in the cover letter, especially that you were advised to handle it that way since your spouse was still overseas. You could even ask if they wish you to file an amended tax return for that year and you would be happy to do so - I can't see that hurting anything. It's your call.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

I like to address doubts by looking at your case from the 'other side.'

You are an USCIS adjudicator. It is your job to determine whether or not a conditional resident based on marriage (investors are conditional residents who have to remove conditions as well) could make a case that they should continue to be an LPR.

Check 1: still married? Yes. Okay.

Check 2: any documents that they intermingled taxes and finances? Holy ####### . . . 4 kilos of paperwork . . . too annoying to go through all of this . . . two years of tax returns . . . . only one? #######! . . . What about bank accounts? . . . check . . . credit cards? . . . check.

Check 3: any documents that they live together? Yep. Check.

Back to the tax return . . . ohh . . . here it is . . . in the cover letter.

Check.

That's why the cover letter is so important.

After the adjudicator spent 10 minutes on your file as it is right now, do you think he or she will have doubts that you guys are still married and live together? If you do, get the amended tax return; if you don't, send the package 'as is.'

Final words of wisdom: I'm a quality over quantity kind of guy. In my opinion, all that's needed to prove the 3 cornerstones in question is 2 joint tax returns, a joint bank account, a joint credit card, and a joint lease or mortgage. Everything else are just fillers, perhaps helpful to some degree, but not really needed.

P.S.

I personally believe that you are still happily married to your wife and live together.

[Carrie1978 2]

Thanks!!! I think I will send as is with the cover letter to explain things and in the mean time do the amended taxes just in case they RFE me and then we will have it...Im hoping they think the exact same way you do!