Not enough Bona Fide marriage evidence?

[bananite 67]

Hi all,

I'm assembling my I-130 and I'm afraid that I don't have enough bona fide evidence.

So my fiance (husband next week) and I have been living together in France for over a year (we both live there temporarily for a job at the same laboratory) -- but he never put me on the contract or any bills, because we never thought I'd need to be. I've just been paying him, or paying the landlady sometimes (we alternate paying rent).

I printed out the list of transactions from my bank website that say payments have been made to him and our land lady, but these don't go into any detail, and their names were only in the memo - not linked to their actual bank accounts. So I don't know if this proves anything.

I have a couple of things (cell phone bill, medical bills) that were sent to our address. Can this be used?

I have the signed lease between him and the landlady; I thought I could use this to establish that she is the landlady, and then have her write an affidavit stating that she knows we've lived together (she has known for a while). But I just read in the forums and in the examples section that affidavits have to be notarized. She's busy all the time and I couldn't ask her to write a statement _and_ get it notarized (in rural France. By an English speaking notary). Would just a plain letter suffice, without notarization?

My fiance and I also have a bunch of pictures and plane tickets from shared trips - and this seems to be the only real evidence we have. We haven't shared bank accounts because there's no convenience in opening a shared account when we're only staying in the country temporarily. We have no joint property, no children.

Help!

[charlynn 11]

that is also my concern before when my husband filing for our I- 130.... we dont have any joint account ... we also dont have phone bills since we only talk in skype and facebook everyday.... we only meet once for 2 weeks 2 years ago ..... but thanks God our I- 130 got approved .... i hope it will give you a little ease on how you feel now.... we are still in NVC with our case and still dealing with the paper work though...