Am I missing anything?

[Heliosphan 1]

Hey Everyone,

I'm about to send out my application on Monday. How does it look? Just wanted a quick second or third eye before I mail it out. Thanks in advance!

USCIS 


P.O. Box 660060

Dallas, TX 75266

 

August 1, 2011


ORIGINAL SUBMISSION: N-400 APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION FOR _________ _________ A#: ___-___-___

To Whom It May Concern,


This petition contains a completed, signed and dated N400 Application For Naturalization and required supporting documentation based on marriage..


N-400 Application For Naturalization

Check for payment in the amount of $680.00

Marriage Certificate

_________’s Certificate of Naturalization

Copy of Permanent Resident Card (front and back)

2 Passport Photos (Petitioners name and A# written in pencil on the back)

Certificate of Disposition: Dismissal for Trespassing Offense (in 2007)

List of addresses and workplaces over the last 5 years

G-1145 (E-Notification of Application/Petition Acceptance)

Supporting Documentation:

 

1.  Joint Occupancy/Ownership of Communal Residence

2010 – Apartment Lease (Brooklyn, NY)

2009 – Apartment Lease (Jersey City, NJ)

2008 – Apartment Lease (Jersey City, NJ)

2.  Joint Ownership of Financial Assets & Responsibility for Liabilities

2010 Federal Tax Transcript

2009 Federal Tax transcript

2008 Federal Tax transcript

Joint Checking Account Statement

Life Insurance Policy

Utility Bill

3. Other relevant documents

New York State ID Cards (for _________ and _________)

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Hey Everyone,

I'm about to send out my application on Monday. How does it look? Just wanted a quick second or third eye before I mail it out. Thanks in advance!

USCIS


P.O. Box 660060

Dallas, TX 75266



August 1, 2011


ORIGINAL SUBMISSION: N-400 APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION FOR _________ _________ A#: ___-___-___

To Whom It May Concern,


This petition contains a completed, signed and dated N400 Application For Naturalization and required supporting documentation based on marriage..


N-400 Application For Naturalization

Check for payment in the amount of $680.00

Marriage Certificate

_________'s Certificate of Naturalization

Copy of Permanent Resident Card (front and back)

2 Passport Photos (Petitioners name and A# written in pencil on the back)

Certificate of Disposition: Dismissal for Trespassing Offense (in 2007)

List of addresses and workplaces over the last 5 years

G-1145 (E-Notification of Application/Petition Acceptance)

Supporting Documentation:

1. Joint Occupancy/Ownership of Communal Residence

2010 – Apartment Lease (Brooklyn, NY)

2009 – Apartment Lease (Jersey City, NJ)

2008 – Apartment Lease (Jersey City, NJ)

2. Joint Ownership of Financial Assets & Responsibility for Liabilities

2010 Federal Tax Transcript

2009 Federal Tax transcript

2008 Federal Tax transcript

Joint Checking Account Statement

Life Insurance Policy

Utility Bill

3. Other relevant documents

New York State ID Cards (for _________ and _________)

Reading thoroughly is essential. If you enclose tax transcripts, you fully satisfy the requirements. You should have read the guides before wasting time on this. Pay close attention to the key word: "or." Either A or B or C. The tax transcripts are C.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Including bills in your package now isn't particularly useful. I brought mine along to the interview and when they asked for evidence I handed over the tax transcripts, deed to our house, bank letter and that was it. She was very satisfied and did not ask to see more so I just kept the bills in my folder.

I suspect bills are a nice to have extra evidence if things seem shady in relation to the marriage. They didn't even ask to see my husband's id, passport or anything else which I had ready for them.

Kind of disappointing but it proves the theory that if you're over prepared, they seldom ask for it.

I think you can go safely with what JustBob suggested.

Edited July 29, 2011 by Udella&Wiz

[NickD 203]

Including bills in your package now isn't particularly useful. I brought mine along to the interview and when they asked for evidence I handed over the tax transcripts, deed to our house, bank letter and that was it. She was very satisfied and did not ask to see more so I just kept the bills in my folder.

I suspect bills are a nice to have extra evidence if things seem shady in relation to the marriage. They didn't even ask to see my husband's id, passport or anything else which I had ready for them.

Kind of disappointing but it proves the theory that if you're over prepared, they seldom ask for it.

I think you can go safely with what JustBob suggested.

I go along with Murphy's law on this subject. FIRST OFF WE ARE DEALING WITH MARRIAGE AND NOT THAT FIVE YEAR THING. Going through both, these are two completely different worlds.

Only advice that I can give, if you want to risk waiting as long as 15 months, longest I have heard of because of lack of your marriage evidence, just send the bare minimum. I as well as my kids have any number of government certifications, this was all done before a board. USCIS is the only one I have ever encountered where you only meet one person. Now if you have a crystal ball to know beforehand what that person will be like, you can decide in advance.

If I had to do it all over again with my wife, would have waited that five years, really nothing was gained for us with the three year. She still has to maintain her foreign passport. Just went through that, another $1,500.00 plus a hell of a lot of our time to get that! I really cussed like crazy when I had to make another copy of my doubled sided 51 pages of divorce papers. How in the hell many copies to they want?

That utility bill is just about the most worthless piece of evidence one can have, if you don't pay it, never will go against you, but whoever owns the property. We know this for a fact as we are landlords and was hit with that bill when our tenant skipped town. Utility companies don't give a damn as to whose name is on that bill, don't even require identification and not even a required form of evidence. But we were warned about that and got one. Wife said her IO really frowned when she pulled it out.

Feel my wife errored by wearing one of her finest business suits, had a woman officer that was way overweight and was wearing a tent. She constantly accused my wife of being a prostitute that caused her to dig deeper into our marriage. But we were prepared, you want evidence, we have evidence. But then her application mysteriously disappeared, my senator straightened that out in a hurry.

Just saying, you don't know what you are going to run into. Stepdaughter with her five year that lasted a whole ten minutes was hit with not having proof of paid traffic violations. Didn't even fool with that, called my senator instantly, not a requirement, besides that is the DMV's job, not theirs. But don't know why she didn't pull out her drivers' license and nicely say, I wouldn't have this if those fines weren't paid.

Still feel we should meet with a board, not just one person, this is insane. Just read in this board the thousands of RFE's.

[Mononoke28 137]

My husband just became a US citizen last week and we sent as much evidence of the most recent year as possible. I'm a firm believer of being over prepared than under prepared so as not to give them any room for questioning. Besides the required info listed on the N-400 instructions, we sent credit card and utility bills showing we both live in the same house, a copy of the deed to our house, copy of my husband's name on my health insurance plan, copies of receipts of the trips we made together in the last year, two affidavits, one from my mom and one my sister and about 10 pictures of us together and with family. Yes, it's a bit much but I'd rather send all of that from the get go than having to get a possible RFE which would delay the process.

By the way, the reason we sent evidence of the most recent year is because he removed conditions on his permanent residency in October 2009, so we just wanted to give them proof of our marriage from that date.

Good luck!

Diana

[Heliosphan 1]

Thanks for the responses everyone! At the very least I'm happy that you think I included too much instead of missing something. I'm pretty sure the sensible option would be to just include the bare minimum to satisfy the requirements. But my experience with the USCIS and reading others' experiences is that we're not always dealing with sensible people handling our case files. Rather than be subject to the whims of the ONE person that receives my file (like NickD said), I'd rather bombard them with as much information as possible. I can't see any negative to sending more info than necessary (as opposed to just enough and having someone in a bad mood deal with my case based on that). I know they all have protocol/guidelines to follow but each IO has way more autonomy/influence than I'm comfortable with and given that they themselves are human (at best) and possibly incompetent (at worst), perhaps it's better to err on the safe side. But thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it!

Edited July 30, 2011 by Heliosphan

[David-and-Mae 15]

Thanks for the responses everyone! At the very least I'm happy that you think I included too much instead of missing something. I'm pretty sure the sensible option would be to just include the bare minimum to satisfy the requirements. But my experience with the USCIS and reading others' experiences is that we're not always dealing with sensible people handling our case files. Rather than be subject to the whims of the ONE person that receives my file (like NickD said), I'd rather bombard them with as much information as possible. I can't see any negative to sending more info than necessary (as opposed to just enough and having someone in a bad mood deal with my case based on that). I know they all have protocol/guidelines to follow but each IO has way more autonomy/influence than I'm comfortable with and given that they themselves are human (at best) and possibly incompetent (at worst), perhaps it's better to err on the safe side. But thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it!

Very true, the more supporting documents, the better. Believe it or not, I even included copies of bill of explanation from my insurance, and other docs that you'd think unnecessary. When I had my interview, the IO was browsing through my thick file in front of me and I saw all the unnecessary docs filed in it. However, I noticed that she was really into checking the ITRs, bank statements, titles where it showed I was under TOD and our military IDs. She asked me if I was on the home title and I explained to her why not and she seemed satisfied. The interview was very pleasant and said she'll recommend my case for approval and that the oath should take place in 2 mos, which is the norm in my local office.

Goodluck on your N-400!

Edited July 30, 2011 by David-and-Mae