Did anyone obtain a letter from a mutual friend for AOS interview?

[RUSSandRACHEL 3]

Hi there everyone,

Quick question...

Russ and I are preparing everything ready for our AOS interview for the 22nd this month and I'm going through all the documents we need to photocopy. The thing is, we don't have as much relationship evidence as some people have mentioned on here.

When I arrived here back in May, we asked the utility companies to add my name but they refused, saying there can only be one on the actual paper bill. Russ also doesn't have health insurance at the moment (so therefore we're not joint on it either). The lease had already been signed by Russ, so therefore its in his sole name, but we have a joint bank account and have just arranged for the cable company to put my name on the bill aswell. We do have separate bills (ie - one of us for gas, the other electric) but that's about it. Oh and we also have wedding photos and wedding greeting cards aswell.

So, I just wondered whether anyone one else produced a letter from a mutual friend that knows you both who could substantiate the relationship? If so, would you mind telling me something along the lines of what it said...?

Thank you!

[Nik+Heather 121]

We didn't do any letters. We didn't even have any bills in Nik's name. Nik's not on the house either.

We did have some joint accounts, for both the checking and the credit card. both of us were on the car insurance. She asked if there were any residential type documents with both our names, and I explained that I bought the house before our engagement, so he wasn't on the title or the mortgage or anything. The IO accepted that pretty readily - I'd go over the lease again, and make sure there aren't any updates required for it now that you are living there permanently...maybe you already have, it just seems sort of odd to me that the landlord isn't concerned about having the paperwork reflect the actual situation.

We also had one regular sheet of paper with ~6 photos printed on it with the home printer. a couple of the wedding, some of us with various other family and friends at varying times between the wedding (October) and the interview (March)

[Colleens 40]

Even having individually addressed bills that go to the same address can be used as evidence that you are indeed living together.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

AOS is not a competition.

In fact, the main goal of the I.O. at the AOS interview is to find out if you guys are married for love or just for immigration benefits. They will ask you some very simple questions, confirm data you entered into the application, look at the passports, and -- most importantly -- at the photo album of your wedding. People can fake a lot of things, but not so easily a party with family and hundreds of guests, clowns, strippers popping out of the wedding cake and the big feast along the lake house.

So don't worry about the little stuff. Worry about the wedding album.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

For affidavits there is some information about the person writing the affidavit that needs to be included (the information is in the I-130 instructions). Off the top of my head it is like name, DOB, address, etc. We had affidavits in our initial submission from family and friends that said who they were and then how they now us and what they know about us, like, were they at the wedding, when did they learn we were dating/getting married, how often they see us. There is no set format.

If you didn't include them in your initial application though, I doubt very much the IO is going to read them over during the interview. Your evidence sounds fine.