Removal of conditions - Question!

[Mel and Rudy 2]

Hello everyone,

I got my conditional green card August, 2013 from K-1. Our marriage was almost a year ago. Nov, 2012.

We are expected to file for ROC in May, 2015.

Here are the details. When I came to the U.S on a K-1 we rented an apartment but only my wife was on the lease. They would NOT allow me to get on the lease for whatever reason. There are NO utility bills addressed to either of is. They were made to the landlord.

After 3 months, (In Feb) I had to go back to India to complete school. I was in India for 4 months and I returned in May. During this time my wife got laid off.

We live in the tri-state area and it's criminally expensive here to rent an apartment. A 1 bedroom apartment in a very average development will cost at least $1,500 a month after utilities.

I have been here 6 months now and I have realized we will not be able to rent an apartment of our own for some time.

Most young people live in shared accommodations around here for the same reason. We currently live in a room that we rented in a house and before this we used to live in another room a few miles from here. They will NOT put both our names on the lease document unless we pay double or close to double the rent. That's how it works here I have inquired in a lot of places. In fact we are not even allowed to live 2 people in the same room but because people with jobs are hard to come by, the landlord simply overlooks the fact that there are two of us.

We cannot leave the tri-state area and find a more affordable place as her parents are getting old and she visits them everyday. She's been unemployed for 9 months now and she needs something to do when I'm at work.

I don't own a car, have no car insurance or health insurance either as we simply can NOT afford it. She is on her parents car and health insurance.

Once her unemployment runs out, we will be living solely off of my income and I make very little. I am a fresh grad with no experience and they know they have us by the lobes.

Here's what we currently have and will have

Joint-account to which MY paycheck is deposited. She doesn't have a job.

We will be filing taxes together this year (2013) and next year (2014).

Since Obamacare is going into effect, health insurance is compulsory so we'll be getting it jointly effective Jan 1, 2014.

We have tons of pics. We travel a lot locally almost every week to beaches and zoos but no flights.

We have some friends here but not the types that would send stupid greeting cards every holiday.

I find that requirement ludicrous.

In my entire life, I have probably sent a handful of greeting cards and they were all invariably for birthdays.

I could pointedly ask some friends to send us cards.

EVERYTHING they seem to want has to do with money. It's not our fault that the economy is so messed up that two educated hardworking individuals are unable to keep a roof over their heads.

Also one thing I forgot to mention is, due to our literally make-shift living situation, both of us use her parents home address for our official documents. We have never lived with her parents though and we would NOT live there in the future either.

Can anyone help us with this situation? (Donations towards a new apartment will be most welcome )

[Mel and Rudy 2]

Just to add, I am currently employed by the state for an admin position and I have an idea how the processing works.

They scan all documents into a web software and typically every employee has a quota they have to meet per day both for approving and for flagging as insufficient evidence.

We call approving 'clicking through' as we literally click our way through tens of pages of documents.

We are not allowed to look at subjective evidence at all so photographs and affidavits have little value.

We also do not have the time or liberty to sit and discuss the merits of each individual case and if a case doesn't have the required weightage of proof, they are simply sent for review to higher-ups. Nobody is emotional about disapproving a case as we rather be cautious than approve a faulty case.

Basically, I know for a fact that if I was working at USCIS and I was looking at my own ROC package, I would be forced to disapprove my own application.

We are stressed out enough already trying to make ends meet and this whole documentation thing is now starting to weigh on me.

[Navyk 78]

Hello everyone,

I got my conditional green card August, 2013 from K-1. Our marriage was almost a year ago. Nov, 2012.

We are expected to file for ROC in May, 2015.

Here are the details. When I came to the U.S on a K-1 we rented an apartment but only my wife was on the lease. They would NOT allow me to get on the lease for whatever reason. There are NO utility bills addressed to either of is. They were made to the landlord.

After 3 months, (In Feb) I had to go back to India to complete school. I was in India for 4 months and I returned in May. During this time my wife got laid off.

We live in the tri-state area and it's criminally expensive here to rent an apartment. A 1 bedroom apartment in a very average development will cost at least $1,500 a month after utilities.

I have been here 6 months now and I have realized we will not be able to rent an apartment of our own for some time.

Most young people live in shared accommodations around here for the same reason. We currently live in a room that we rented in a house and before this we used to live in another room a few miles from here. They will NOT put both our names on the lease document unless we pay double or close to double the rent. That's how it works here I have inquired in a lot of places. In fact we are not even allowed to live 2 people in the same room but because people with jobs are hard to come by, the landlord simply overlooks the fact that there are two of us.

We cannot leave the tri-state area and find a more affordable place as her parents are getting old and she visits them everyday. She's been unemployed for 9 months now and she needs something to do when I'm at work.

I don't own a car, have no car insurance or health insurance either as we simply can NOT afford it. She is on her parents car and health insurance.

Once her unemployment runs out, we will be living solely off of my income and I make very little. I am a fresh grad with no experience and they know they have us by the lobes.

Here's what we currently have and will have

Joint-account to which MY paycheck is deposited. She doesn't have a job.

We will be filing taxes together this year (2013) and next year (2014).

Since Obamacare is going into effect, health insurance is compulsory so we'll be getting it jointly effective Jan 1, 2014.

We have tons of pics. We travel a lot locally almost every week to beaches and zoos but no flights.

We have some friends here but not the types that would send stupid greeting cards every holiday.

I find that requirement ludicrous.

In my entire life, I have probably sent a handful of greeting cards and they were all invariably for birthdays.

I could pointedly ask some friends to send us cards.

EVERYTHING they seem to want has to do with money. It's not our fault that the economy is so messed up that two educated hardworking individuals are unable to keep a roof over their heads.

Also one thing I forgot to mention is, due to our literally make-shift living situation, both of us use her parents home address for our official documents. We have never lived with her parents though and we would NOT live there in the future either.

Can anyone help us with this situation? (Donations towards a new apartment will be most welcome )

Though joint lease is a pretty important evidence, you still will be fine. Just explain you case in the covering letter that you share accommodation and that's should be fine. Yes, you may be called for an interview but as long as your is a genuine marriage and each of you know about each other well, you should be fine.

Try to get as much other evidence as possible like joint bank accounts, joint IRS tax returns, affidavits, ..... There is no need to stress because ultimately you will get approval but it will take longer time.

[Boiler 45,489]

You have 18 months, not sure what the reference is to greeting cards.

[AlinaH 38]

You have a joint bank account - send in records as far back as you can.

You WILL have joint health insurance.

You have or will have joint tax returns.

Just that in itself is good evidence.

The only other thing that I would recommend is to get three friends to write letters of affidavits. Also, write a short letter explaining your living situation so that it doesn't come into question. We lived at my in-laws for about 6 months after we got married, so I simply put that in writing explaining what we did and why so that they weren't confused as to where we lived.