Is This Enough Evidence?

[sms78 18]

Do you think this is enough for I-751 evidence of a bona fide Marriage?

• Copies of the passport and green card of my wife.
• Copies of our CA driver licenses, showing our residency.
• Partial copies of our 2013 and 2014 joint US tax return.
• Copy of the title of our car, showing joint ownership.
• Copy of the sale contract of our car, showing joint loan
• Copy of my wife's car insurance, showing me as an allowed driver
• Copy of our visa cards, showing a joint account.
• Copy of boarding passes for our vacation trip to Japan in February 2014.
• Two sworn affidavits by U.S. citizen families, attesting to our relationship and marriage.
• Copy of an invitation to our friends’ wedding in March 2014
• Pictures

Should we include a joint bank account as well?

We have no money in that bank account though.

Not much transaction history either.

For tax return, does copies of Form 1040 work?

Or is there any other way to present our joint tax return?

Also for credit cards, we're sending in photocopies of cards,

but should we include transaction history as well?

We want to send them in at the end of this month.

Thank you in advance!

[cathy2904 97]

It looks a bit light on evidence of financial commingling perhaps but you can only send what you have. The best way to send tax info is with transcripts of your tax returns which you can request online. Yes, send transaction history for any accounts you have together. We sent one statement per quarter and highlighted significant items such as salaries going in to the same account.

[Daveykins 17]

What about a joint lease? Mortgage? Other living arrangement contract with both your names on it? I agree it looks light on finaicial comingling. Life insurance with her as the beneficiary? Investment accounts with her as the beneficiary?

[thasheda 3]

Where are the bills .... Gas, electric, phone, cable etc

[flora01 37]

Do you think this is enough for I-751 evidence of a bona fide Marriage?

• Copies of the passport and green card of my wife.
• Copies of our CA driver licenses, showing our residency.
• Partial copies of our 2013 and 2014 joint US tax return.
• Copy of the title of our car, showing joint ownership.
• Copy of the sale contract of our car, showing joint loan
• Copy of my wife's car insurance, showing me as an allowed driver
• Copy of our visa cards, showing a joint account.
• Copy of boarding passes for our vacation trip to Japan in February 2014.
• Two sworn affidavits by U.S. citizen families, attesting to our relationship and marriage.
• Copy of an invitation to our friends’ wedding in March 2014
• Pictures

Should we include a joint bank account as well?

We have no money in that bank account though.

Not much transaction history either.

For tax return, does copies of Form 1040 work?

Or is there any other way to present our joint tax return?

Also for credit cards, we're sending in photocopies of cards,

but should we include transaction history as well?

We want to send them in at the end of this month.

Thank you in advance!

You already did 2014 tax return,too fast

joint Lease,bank account statements,health insurance,life insurance,joint bills at home,joint tax transcript of 2012(2011 transcript if got married in 2011)-these all things are missing and they should cover whole 2 years period.

[sms78 18]

You already did 2014 tax return,too fast

joint Lease,bank account statements,health insurance,life insurance,joint bills at home,joint tax transcript of 2012(2011 transcript if got married in 2011)-these all things are missing and they should cover whole 2 years period.

Ooops thank you for pointing it out!

[sms78 18]

We live with our parents. So no lease agreement or any home related bills come under our names. In her affidavit, my mother in law did explain how we live with them and we contribute to the mortgage payment.

I'll check the cellphone payment.

Life insurance is out: I just quit my job.

Health Insurance: I don't have it right now. Looking into plans now.

So in this situation,

cellphone bills and bank transaction history on top of what I already have do you think is enough?

I mean it's pretty much all we have, but wondering if there is anything we can add still.

Thanks!

[Darnell 8,478]

Where are the bills .... Gas, electric, phone, cable etc

yup yup - what's going on there, and were you successful in getting the spouse's name added in to all of the utility bills?

great evidence fodder, show all months from marriage date till yesterday.

ok - after a reread - I am stumped,

as

you could have done something else, like put a cable bill or satellite bill on yer parent's house in both of yer names.

and make a joint bank account that you two actually used - heck writing a monthly check to the parents on a joint account would have been great evidence fodder, (showing shared domicile between you and your spouse and payment of same) but you chose to do something else.

re: insurance - medical/life or hangnail - hey ! although you ain't got anything NOW - what did you have prior? Produce what you had prior, as it counts.

re: bank accounts - on a single payer bank account, you can create 'payable upon death' instructions on each account, and include those instructions with the evidence. plan a trip into the bank(s ) and get it done.

re: partial tax returns. no, no no and no. USCIS wants to see COMPLETE returns. Don't have it, you say? Get the tax transcripts from the IRS.

Edited March 20, 2014 by Darnell

[sms78 18]

yup yup - what's going on there, and were you successful in getting the spouse's name added in to all of the utility bills?

great evidence fodder, show all months from marriage date till yesterday.

ok - after a reread - I am stumped,

as

you could have done something else, like put a cable bill or satellite bill on yer parent's house in both of yer names.

and make a joint bank account that you two actually used - heck writing a monthly check to the parents on a joint account would have been great evidence fodder, (showing shared domicile between you and your spouse and payment of same) but you chose to do something else.

re: insurance - medical/life or hangnail - hey ! although you ain't got anything NOW - what did you have prior? Produce what you had prior, as it counts.

re: bank accounts - on a single payer bank account, you can create 'payable upon death' instructions on each account, and include those instructions with the evidence. plan a trip into the bank(s ) and get it done.

re: partial tax returns. no, no no and no. USCIS wants to see COMPLETE returns. Don't have it, you say? Get the tax transcripts from the IRS.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I just printed out the tax transcripts from IRS website.

Yea, we could've done many things, but we couldn't and didn't.

Do you think we should still submit our joint bank account statement right? although

there is only $25 right now. Nowadays only transaction is $10 service fee getting deducted from the account...

We did pay tax from this account and used to have a decent amount of money in it until we paid for CC which

we used to pay our wedding party in the US.

Also can we use the transaction history (2pages) or we should print out all the statements (64pages).

Please let me know,

Thank you!

[Darnell 8,478]

monthly statements? monthly journals !

make a monthly journal presentation of this evidence. [ie - each month, from date of marriage till yesterday, show all months]

[sms78 18]

monthly statements? monthly journals !

make a monthly journal presentation of this evidence. [ie - each month, from date of marriage till yesterday, show all months]

Got it! Thank you!!

I need to go get a printer ink!

*Sorry my bank calls the monthly summary of the checking account "statements."

[Darnell 8,478]

ya, maybe I'm having a language problem.

I take another try...

When you are putting together your evidence for the ROC case,

present the evidence in a monthly journal format, having a section for each month,

and showing the evidence accumulated for that month,

for each and every month that's transpired between marriage and yesterday.

What goes in that monthly journal, in a month's section, you ask?

1. monthly statements from bank

2. monthly utility bills

3. monthly 'other' bills

4. monthly car insurance statements

5. Anything else you two paid monthly.

Then if you want, for other evidence, of a general (not time specific) nature, such as:

1. medical bills

2. tax returns

3. photos

4. affadavits

5. letters of attestation

6. insurance documents

7. POD documents

put into another section.... it's not monthly in nature, but accumulative.

I hope that made more sense? I'm quadlingual and forget english grammar rules sometimes ...

[sms78 18]

ya, maybe I'm having a language problem.

I take another try...

When you are putting together your evidence for the ROC case,

present the evidence in a monthly journal format, having a section for each month,

and showing the evidence accumulated for that month,

for each and every month that's transpired between marriage and yesterday.

What goes in that monthly journal, in a month's section, you ask?

1. monthly statements from bank

2. monthly utility bills

3. monthly 'other' bills

4. monthly car insurance statements

5. Anything else you two paid monthly.

Then if you want, for other evidence, of a general (not time specific) nature, such as:

1. medical bills

2. tax returns

3. photos

4. affadavits

5. letters of attestation

6. insurance documents

7. POD documents

put into another section.... it's not monthly in nature, but accumulative.

I hope that made more sense? I'm quadlingual and forget english grammar rules sometimes ...

OK. So we'll compile the time specific evidences month by month.

I'll try my best although we don't have much bills received..

One last question. Is certified mail ok to send the packet in?

[Darnell 8,478]

I say send it priority mail, buy postage online at usps.com

why? you get some discount and free tracking.

and IMO it'll be less than a certified package.