DCF and evidence for I-130 Beijing

[Not me 1]

This is for the members who have DCF at the Beijing American embassy. I need some advice about what to do for evidence of legitimate relationship.

I've been living with my wife for over two years, and have been married over a year. I've been living in China for the last two years and have not gone to the US since I left in the spring of 2008.

I don't have a joint bank account since I haven't been able to find a bank in China that will have two people share an account.

1. Any advice how to prove we are sharing finical assets together in China?

Also, I have a lease contract for our appartment but I need to get this notoired. Anyone have expericne doing this in Beijing?

I'm 28 years old, and came to China as a student. I've never been married before, and I don't have things like health insurance or a will.

I just don't know how to give the embassy the evidence they asked for since I'm a young guy just starting out in life. It seems a lot of the advice is from couples that are a little older or financially more secure than myself.

[milimelo 4,481]

Moving to DCF forum.

[xiaofeizhu 0]

Hi there,

Darnell asked me to help you out. This may be my first post on VJ lol. I have a few on CFL that might help you as well.

Background info about me/my husband that might help you:

We both attended university in Japan in 2005, which is how we met. We were married in 2007 in Japan, I was 19 (almost 20 hehe) and he was 22. At that time, we really had no joint assets, no joint anything. About six months later, we moved to China. I DCFed in Beijing after being in China for 6 months on an L visa.

What we did to prepare proof of a bonafide relationship:

We only included a few things in our initial filing of the I-130 because I had not found VJ or CFL. We included two afidavits. One was from my mom, who was a witnessing party for our marriage and the other was from a childhood friend who came to visit us in Japan. I was able to get my credit union to add my husband on my account. I know many people have problems with this, but at the credit union, they seem to be a little more understanding, so they let me add my husband onto my account. All I had to do was sign the form to add him (it had to be notarized) and also include a notarized copy of his passport and our marriage certificate (translated, of course). So I also included a letter from the credit union showing joint account. My husband and I were renting an apartment while living in Beijing. In the beginning, only his name was on the rental agreement. However, after talking to the renters, they were kind enough to add my name to the contract. We then had this translated and notarized at the Gong Zheng Chu in Beijing. (We lived in Haidian Qu, and notarized it at this notary across from Minzu Daxue, with no problems). I think it took maybe 4 days for them to translate/notarize it. It was a little expensive considering the price of other things in China, but at least it showed that we lived together while in Beijing.

Other evidence we had after the initial filing of the I-130:

After filing the I-130, and after finding VJ and CFL, there were a lot of items that I prepared for proof for the interview. Of course, if you can frontload all of this, it is much better because then it is all in you file before the interview. I filed my 2007 taxes joint, even though I had no income except for like $107 in earned interest. However, I did include this as proof. We also got a letter from a mutual friend who knew us in Japan, who affirmed that he knew we were living together in Japan (we had no copies of our Japan rental agreement, etc.). We prepared a lot of pictures that spanned the time of our relationship. I wrote an EOR letter that basically outlined the timeline of our relationship, such as when we met, when we were married, when my family came to visit, etc. I did not make it a very emotional letter or anythying like that, just the facts with some emotion and a request for a favorable outcome.

I am sure I forgot somethings. I have a lot of homework to do right now, so I will go and check my file/hard copy later on so that I can let you know what else we did. You should have a copy of everything We actually notarized everything twice at least, one to submit, and at least one actual notarized copy for our files. I hope this helps. Please PM me if you reply/have any questions because in all honestly, I probably will not check VJ ever again, but the PM notices do go to my e-mail. This will remind me to stop by to help you out.