Green card through marriage.

[Little_My 464]

As it says in the instructions for the I-485 form, you need to submit proof of bona fide marriage with your application. The first absolutely required thing is the marriage certificate. What you send in addition to that is up to you - the best type of proof is a joint lease, joint bank accounts, joint insurance, joint phone plan.. anything that shows co-mingling of finances between you two. Then in addition, you can send some photos, or ask third parties to write affidavits in which they state that your relationship is valid.

If you don't have any shared bills or a joint lease now, it would be a good idea to start accumulating those before the interview. You can bring additional evidence with you that you did not submit with the application. But you do need to send additional proof with the application, on top of the marriage certificate.

Whether you mail via regular US postal or express really makes no difference in terms of the time it takes for them to process the thing. Express will get it delivered the next day, USPS takes a few business days. People mail packages through certified mail or express mainly because they can track them, and make sure the package gets to the right address. It's some valuable information you have in those forms, so I personally felt more comfortable having a tracking number and knowing it was actually delivered.

[Darnell 8,479]

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[hooligunka 0]

I asked about do I have to send pictures because all of my friends from my country who got married here, brought all proofs to interview, they never sent it with documents. plus since I'm out-of-status now, I can't join to lease (and he has own house) or to car insurance. But I will definitely send pictures! what about tickets? for instance, we went to a lot of hockey games together, parks.. it doesn't have names on that tickets, though.. so they can think that it could be not our tickets, right?

Edited April 22, 2011 by hooligunka

[Little_My 464]

There is no "send this and only this as proof of bona fide marriage" list.. you just send what you think is beneficial, and what in your case works as the best possible proof of a bona fide marriage.

Yes, you can bring photos and bunch of additional stuff to the interview, but you do have to send something with the application as well, in addition to the marriage certificate. What about your phone plan? Is it a joint plan? Or a bank account, or a credit card? You should have something besides pictures and tickets - but, if you don't you send what you have and hope you won't get an RFE.