Petition questions

[kg8183 1]

Hello fellow VJ members.

I am starting to put together the package to petition for my husband and I have couple of questions to start with.

A brief overview of my situation may be helpful.

This coming week I will be attending the Oath Ceremony to become a naturalized US citizen.

My husband currently lives and works abroad.

My husband and I got married in January 2010 and he left the US for his home country on February 2010 (about 25 days later). Since he left the US, I have visited him 3 times for the total of about 150 days. After we got married, I did not move to live with him while he was in the US (too much hassle for 25 days) and continued to live with my parents. During my visits to his country we lived together in his apartment.

My husband and I do not have the following:

* documentation of joint ownership or property,

* a lease showing joint tenancy of a common residence,

* no bills

* documentation showing co-mingling of financial resources.

We do have:

* copies of boarding passes for my trips to visit him along with the trip itineraries,

* copies of entry/exit stamps and visas to his country stamped in my Travel Document,

* lots of picture of us together and with others,

* e-mail correspondence,

* skype correspondence,

My Questions.

1) It appears that I can petition with just a copy of the naturalization certificate, which I think should be given to me at the oath ceremony (fingers crossed), and do not need to have a US passport. Please confirm.

2) Please advice what document(s) I should submit that may evidence the bona fides of our marriage ?

Thank you in advance

[Ryan H 3,812]

My husband and I do not have the following:

* documentation of joint ownership or property,

* a lease showing joint tenancy of a common residence,

* no bills

* documentation showing co-mingling of financial resources.

Don't need any of it, USCIS will not expect you to have such items.

We do have:

* copies of boarding passes for my trips to visit him along with the trip itineraries,

* copies of entry/exit stamps and visas to his country stamped in my Travel Document,

* lots of picture of us together and with others,

* e-mail correspondence,

* skype correspondence,

This is good.

Answers in bold:

My Questions.

1) It appears that I can petition with just a copy of the naturalization certificate, which I think should be given to me at the oath ceremony (fingers crossed), and do not need to have a US passport. Please confirm.

Copy of naturalization certificate is sufficient to show proof of US Citizenship, you do not need a US passport.

2) Please advice what document(s) I should submit that may evidence the bona fides of our marriage ?

The items you listed and I said "this is good" will cover this.

[kg8183 1]

My husband and I do not have the following:

* documentation of joint ownership or property,

* a lease showing joint tenancy of a common residence,

* no bills

* documentation showing co-mingling of financial resources.

Don't need any of it, USCIS will not expect you to have such items.

We do have:

* copies of boarding passes for my trips to visit him along with the trip itineraries,

* copies of entry/exit stamps and visas to his country stamped in my Travel Document,

* lots of picture of us together and with others,

* e-mail correspondence,

* skype correspondence,

This is good.

I will include all of the things listed above. However, as one can image, 2 years worth of e-mails and skype correspondence can be a lot, and my package may be thicker than Tolstoy's "War and Peace" if I include all of it. Do I just take 5-10 pages worth of correspondence from different times during the 2 year period that we have been apart?

1) It appears that I can petition with just a copy of the naturalization certificate, which I think should be given to me at the oath ceremony (fingers crossed), and do not need to have a US passport. Please confirm.

Copy of naturalization certificate is sufficient to show proof of US Citizenship, you do not need a US passport.

Thank you for confirming this.

Edited March 4, 2012 by kg8183

[angelo gutierrez 6]

Hello fellow VJ members.

My Questions.

1) It appears that I can petition with just a copy of the naturalization certificate, which I think should be given to me at the oath ceremony (fingers crossed), and do not need to have a US passport. Please confirm.

2) Please advice what document(s) I should submit that may evidence the bona fides of our marriage ?

Thank you in advance

1. Yes you can send only the copy of naturalization certificate.

2. Marriage Certificate, Pictures from the wedding and there are many more documents to support the case e.g Document from insurance company showing your spouse as the beneficiary.

[dwheels76 5,468]

I will include all of the things listed above. However, as one can image, 2 years worth of e-mails and skype correspondence can be a lot, and my package may be thicker than Tolstoy's "War and Peace" if I include all of it. Do I just take 5-10 pages worth of correspondence from different times during the 2 year period that we have been apart?

Just a log of your chats is all that's needed at this level. Like I have 795 pages of Facebook emails. So what I did was make another file of the emails with just the name and time stamp. The same for our yahoo and hotmail emails. Just pulled up and screen printed the list of all emails from him with the time and date. from 795 pages to 28. The actually emails will be printed up for the interview.

[kg8183 1]

I will include all of the things listed above. However, as one can image, 2 years worth of e-mails and skype correspondence can be a lot, and my package may be thicker than Tolstoy's "War and Peace" if I include all of it. Do I just take 5-10 pages worth of correspondence from different times during the 2 year period that we have been apart?

Just a log of your chats is all that's needed at this level. Like I have 795 pages of Facebook emails. So what I did was make another file of the emails with just the name and time stamp. The same for our yahoo and hotmail emails. Just pulled up and screen printed the list of all emails from him with the time and date. from 795 pages to 28. The actually emails will be printed up for the interview.

Thank you. As far as communication between two of us goes, I have made transcripts of our Skype video calls, will make screenshots of our e-mails with the subject and time stamp and will select some skype chat transcripts from each month that we have been apart.

I have one question. Should I just provide photos of us after we have got married or should I also include some before getting married?

Thanks