Questions about income and pictures

[PinkMelody 1]

Hi. I have some questions about I-864 and proof of ongoing marriage.

These are the forms that we're going to send to Chicago Lockbox soon.

- Payment in the amount of $420.00

- I-130

- G-325 and supplement: Applicant’s residence last five years (Petitioner)

- G-325 and supplement: Applicant’s residence last five years (Beneficiary)

- Passport Style Photo (Petitioner)

- Copy of Certificate of Naturalization/US Passport (Petitioner)

- Certificate in Translation

- Copy of Foreign Birth Certificate/Translated in English (Petitioner)

- Copy of Marriage Certificate

- Proof of joint lease

- Proof of co-mingling financial resource and other proof of ongoing marriage

- I-864 and supplement: Copy of Transcripts of third most recent tax years

- Copy of third most recent tax years W-2s

- Pay stub of present year

- Copy of last three months of Bank Statements

- Employment Verification Letter from the Petitioner’s employer.

- Payment in the amount of $1,070.00

- I-485

- Passport Style Photo (Beneficiary)

- Copy of Foreign passport (Beneficiary)

- Certificate in Translation

- Copy of Foreign Birth Certificate/Translated in English (Beneficiary)

- Copy of Marriage Certificate

- Copy of I-94 and supplement (Beneficiary)

- Copy of DS-2019 (Beneficiary)

- I-765

- I-693

- Proof of past years/ongoing marriage

Question #1. He's been making $1,800/month($21,600/year: house hold of 2) since Nov, 2010 So we don't have tax return for that yet so we're submitting the whole pay stubs for that from the day he got hired till present. But in 2010, he only made $8,545.00/ in 2009, $6,759.00/ in 2010, $25,823.00 Do you think it might be a problem? because of 2010 and 2009?

Question #2. Do we need to send photos from past and wedding and all that stuff with these paper work? and bring same and more pictures for interview? Or do we just send paper works for now and then bring pictures with us later for interview? We didn't know until now we took terribly small amount of pictures for 5 years lol still managed to gather up around 80 pictures.

Question #3. Do you see any missing paper works from my list? Please let me know

Thank you so much.

[CC90 90]

The petitioner's birth certificate is not needed if it doesn't prove US citizenship. You may want to leave that out at the risk of them getting confused.

Your DS-2019 is also extraneous.

1. You will be OK as long as those pay stubs are actually from regular employment; not odd jobs or self-employment. If he's paid by the hour or it's unclear from the pay stubs that it's a regular long-term job, a verification of employment from the employer is usually sufficient to avoid this problem, which you seem to have included. Be sure to summarize the data from the pay stubs; they will not like to go through themselves and add numbers.

2. Sending as much as you can now, in moderation, may make your interview easier. Pictures of you together do not carry much weight; it is pictures of you with family, friends, etc. that are much more convincing. Sending 80 pictures is not necessary.

3. Nothing jumps out at me.

[PinkMelody 1]

Thank you.

Umm... my family's in a different country and my in-laws are in a different state. So we really don't have any pictures with family or friends right now. Do you think it would be better idea if we include some affidavit letters from family and friends?

[panclox 0]

I am going to tell you what I did for the picture issue you have right now, everyone told me it was NOT a good idea to send pictures with your application, but the matter of fact is when your case gets to the IO, when he reviews your application he will see those pictures in there and he will already make up his mind about you and your wife. MY interview experience was very good, I sent about 80 or 100 pics, what I did was I made a word document, copy and pasted all the pics there, organized them in chronological order since the day we met, and printed them out in color and attached them to the proof of marriage documentation. The day of the interview the IO told me it was a very good idea doing that because it makes it easier for him in reviewing our case and how our relationship has been through out the years.

It is not mandatory for you to send pictures, you can wait until the interview day if you want to, I am just telling you what I did so you can choose what do you wanna do, good luck to you! my interview lasted for about 8 minutes.

I am going to tell you what I did for the picture issue you have right now, everyone told me it was NOT a good idea to send pictures with your application, but the matter of fact is when your case gets to the IO, when he reviews your application he will see those pictures in there and he will already make up his mind about you and your wife. MY interview experience was very good, I sent about 80 or 100 pics, what I did was I made a word document, copy and pasted all the pics there, organized them in chronological order since the day we met, and printed them out in color and attached them to the proof of marriage documentation. The day of the interview the IO told me it was a very good idea doing that because it makes it easier for him in reviewing our case and how our relationship has been through out the years.

It is not mandatory for you to send pictures, you can wait until the interview day if you want to, I am just telling you what I did so you can choose what do you wanna do, good luck to you! my interview lasted for about 8 minutes.

Put like 5 or 6 pics per page.. "

[panclox 0]

I also sent 3 letters that were notarized, one from her mom, another from her dad and the last one from her sister. everything you can send to proof that your marriage is bona-fide is welcome, and those letters are a good proof that her family knows about the marriage and that they know you.