Need help on the documents

[ToLa 0]

Hello, we are newbie on visa journey.

I would like to send out my wife documents for the ROC, and considering whether we should also include our previous apartment lease agreement (on both names), since we are now not living there anymore but we move to my parents' home?

Because of living with my parents, hence we don't have any joint billing, or should we also send the previous joint billing too?

All replies will be highly appreciated.

Cheers,

ToLa

[DaniG 3]

I would send the previous lease, especially if it includes a period of time after the green card was issued. And you can have your parents do a lease for you, or write an affidavit explaining you live with them. Having absolutely no joint billing seems impossible to me for two people that live together though! You must have at least a bank account or a store card together, even if you are not actively using them, right? Maybe if your parents pay all the bills, show they paid some of her bills. If you list all the documents you have gathered so far, maybe VJ-ers can help you with some more ideas

[ToLa 0]

Thanks DaniG for your reply.

We do have joint bank account, credit cards, and insurance.

But just no joint utility bill anymore, so we are wondering should we include the previous bill with the ROC application or not.

[DaniG 3]

The general consensus is that USCIS doesn't care about utility bills too much - they prefer the "real stuff" (bank statements, mortgage, insurance, 401k, etc.). The reasoning is that you have to pay for utilities married or not, but for example, few people would pay for their spouse's health insurance or put them on their 401(k) if it's not a real marriage. If you have joint utility bills, by all means send some, they're not going to hurt you. If you don't, send more of the other kinds of evidence. I only sent one utility bill from a couple of months after I first got my green card. Then my husband and I moved into our house and we didn't even bother to put the utilities in both names since the deed and the mortgage are joint.