I-751 Question: Are affidavits needed?

[malamaja 1]

Hi All

I arrived in U.S. almost 2 years ago on a spouse visa. I am preparing docs to remove conditions and have attached a lot of supporting evidence (daughter's birth certificate, joint property deed title, joint tax return, multiple bank statements, insurance beneficiary details etc). We have both been gainfully employed since day 1 and our first child was born here. We have a strong tie to community, financially stable, bought a property here almost a year ago in both our names.

I really don't want to have to ask people for affidavits - I did it once when we lodged the initial application and I just want to avoid doing it again (it's time consuming).

Do you think this is necessary in any case? In my case in particular?

Other people's opinion welcome!

Thanks

[almost_umrican 54]

they are not mandatory but they will not harm. i personally sent two. one from my mother in law and other from my sister in law.

[Cheezees 1,514]

Affidavits are considered weak/secondary evidence. I did not include any.

[malamaja 1]

Thank you all for your input! Making the executive decision to leave them out based on comments... good luck to you all.

[Alaska2012 462]

We never sent any.

[Lynkali 163]

Obviously we're still waiting for ROC approval since we just submitted this month, but we didn't want to bother friends and neighbors either. We did get one signed affidavit from my parents (I'm the USC), but it wasn't notarized and shouldn't need to be. We have so much other evidence that I'm really not concerned about affidavits from others, it shouldn't matter at all.

We did the same for our AOS (just one letter from parents, not notarized) and had no problems with quick approval.