Need help with our I-751 RFE

[stacato 0]

Hello all,

We just received an RFE to our I-751 application. The letter indicates that the evidence we submitted is insufficient.

We submitted the following documents:

Joint tax return

Joint bank statements

Evidence of life insurance with my wife as a beneficiary

Joint rental agreement

Affidavits by two individuals about our bona fide marriage

Joint health insurance from my wife's employer - This one they overlooked and didn't include on the list of evidence we submitted.

The letter goes on to list a number of different documents that can be added as evidence, however, we don't have joint bills on any utilities since everything was in my name before my wife moved in with me. We don't have credit cards together. We don't have any mortgage or loans together. What am I to do?

Can I add my wife's name on the car title? isn't it too late to do now? they demand the documents to be from the date we were married..

I can add the car insurance in both of our names as well as I didn't include that in the initial package. Any suggestions? can they reject our application all together? should we get a lawyer's advice/representation? Thanks!

Edited August 12, 2014 by stacato

[BBCC 16]

Can I add my wife's name on the car title? isn't it too late to do now? they demand the documents to be from the date we were married..

I can add the car insurance in both of our names as well as I didn't include that in the initial package. Any suggestions? can they reject our application all together? should we get a lawyer's advice/representation? Thanks!

No, not too late to add her to the car title. We joined the bank accounts the same month we filed our I-751 and it wasn't denied.

Go for it!

Don't worry about them rejecting your application. It's just a RFE at this point. A final rejection is a long way off.

They'll probably take whatever you can gather together the 2nd time around and you'll be good to go.

Send whatever you can.

If you think they overlooked your health insurance, send it in as if you haven't sent it before. Can't hurt.

Edited August 12, 2014 by BBCC

[stacato 0]

No, not too late to add her to the car title. We joined the bank accounts the same month we filed our I-751 and it wasn't denied.

Go for it!

Don't worry about them rejecting your application. It's just a RFE at this point. A final rejection is a long way off.

They'll probably take whatever you can gather together the 2nd time around and you'll be good to go.

Send whatever you can.

If you think they overlooked your health insurance, send it in as if you haven't sent it before. Can't hurt.

Thanks! I will do just that. I'm also thinking of printing our text messages to each other as well as showing proof of my purchasing her air ticket to the Philippines last year with my Credit Card. We have the air ticket as well as the bank statement showing the charge.

[KayDeeCee 4,896]

Creating evidence now, after the fact, is not really helpful and not what they are looking for. They want evidence of co-mingling your finances and lives together for the whole time you had been married before filing.

Did your evidence span the entire marriage? Did you not have more than one joint tax return? Did you supply joint bank statements than went back to the start of your marriage? Does your joint rental agreement cover the span of your marriage?

Use the joint car insurance and resend the joint health insurance evidence. Send bank statements for the length of the entire marriage. Have you received any mail in both your names, from friends or family? Taking trips together can be used as evidence, but I suppose showing she took a trip paid for with your credit card may be of some help too. Copies of IDs showing the same address? You can also provide photos together with friends and family as secondary evidence. Show anything you can think of that proves you have been living together as married couple.

If you respond to the RFE and they are still not satisfied with the evidence, then they would not just deny you. They would call you for an interview.