Documented Proof - Getting ready for I-751

[GF1804 12]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting my evidence together and ensuring that everything is copied and filed as the great advice on this site USCIS state.(Filing early April)

Q: I have beneficiary proof of life insurance status for my spouse and also benefit elections through my employers as online screen print offs -not official letters from the organizations. Will these be accepted as viable proof?

(I also have also taken copies of our joint health insurance cards)

Just need to know if these are acceptable forms of proof along with the reams of everything else we have? Also two years of statements for joint credit card, checking and savings accounts there are some 250 pages of information - I'm intending on sending this also (Is it overkill?) At this stage with everything my package is nearly 2" thick!

Thanks

[Cheezees 1,514]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting my evidence together and ensuring that everything is copied and filed as the great advice on this site USCIS state.(Filing early April)

Q: I have beneficiary proof of life insurance status for my spouse and also benefit elections through my employers as online screen print offs -not official letters from the organizations. Will these be accepted as viable proof? Yes

(I also have also taken copies of our joint health insurance cards)

Just need to know if these are acceptable forms of proof along with the reams of everything else we have? Also two years of statements for joint credit card, checking and savings accounts there are some 250 pages of information - I'm intending on sending this also (Is it overkill? I sent the same. Some people got RFEs for sending less. No one gets an RFE for sending them all) At this stage with everything my package is nearly 2" thick!

Thanks Good luck!

[vkrishn 97]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting my evidence together and ensuring that everything is copied and filed as the great advice on this site USCIS state.(Filing early April)

Q: I have beneficiary proof of life insurance status for my spouse and also benefit elections through my employers as online screen print offs -not official letters from the organizations. Will these be accepted as viable proof?

(I also have also taken copies of our joint health insurance cards)

Just need to know if these are acceptable forms of proof along with the reams of everything else we have? Also two years of statements for joint credit card, checking and savings accounts there are some 250 pages of information - I'm intending on sending this also (Is it overkill?) At this stage with everything my package is nearly 2" thick!

Thanks

Two years of statements from Bank account, Mobile phone bills, Credit card statements is an over kill and i did send them all. Get the Medium Flat rate box from USPS.

[GF1804 12]

Thanks for the info!

Two years of statements from Bank account, Mobile phone bills, Credit card statements is an over kill and i did send them all. Get the Medium Flat rate box from USPS.

[Cheezees 1,514]

Two years of statements from Bank account, Mobile phone bills, Credit card statements is an over kill and i did send them all. Get the Medium Flat rate box from USPS.

I say kill them with evidence so they don't kill you with an RFE.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

My 2 cents is 250 pages and a box is overkill. Their eyes will glaze over and they will miss important stuff. Ours fit in a 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 flat rate Priority envelope. The flat one that is light cardboard.

A sampling of a range of dates covering two years is as good as 24 consecutive MasterCard statements for the same account. Ditto bank statements, savings, etc. Pick a variety stuff that shows both names for beginning, middle-ish, and end of the period. Any account that has the same number and names in Jan 2014>Aug 2014>Mar 2015>Dec 2015, can surely be assumed to be continuous for two years.

Just a different opinion to throw out there.

[GF1804 12]

My 2 cents is 250 pages and a box is overkill. Their eyes will glaze over and they will miss important stuff. Ours fit in a 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 flat rate Priority envelope. The flat one that is light cardboard.

A sampling of a range of dates covering two years is as good as 24 consecutive MasterCard statements for the same account. Ditto bank statements, savings, etc. Pick a variety stuff that shows both names for beginning, middle-ish, and end of the period. Any account that has the same number and names in Jan 2014>Aug 2014>Mar 2015>Dec 2015, can surely be assumed to be continuous for two years.

Just a different opinion to throw out there.

Nich-Nick - I agree there seems to be a difference of options as to the quantity. I have great quality of info joint fed tax returns, beneficiary information, mortgage statements, bank accounts, credit cards, medical, vehicle, tax, property tax info all in both names. Being able to streamline the bank and credit card statements down to maybe 3 months throughout for each of the two particular years would definitely reduce the amount of paper and also show transactional history. The account numbers and names haven't changed so we are good there too.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Nich-Nick - I agree there seems to be a difference of options as to the quantity. I have great quality of info joint fed tax returns, beneficiary information, mortgage statements, bank accounts, credit cards, medical, vehicle, tax, property tax info all in both names. Being able to streamline the bank and credit card statements down to maybe 3 months throughout for each of the two particular years would definitely reduce the amount of paper and also show transactional history. The account numbers and names haven't changed so we are good there too.

You have good quality. I think instead of filling a box you need to choose your best evidence. We have a joint savings account we opened with $250 just so we could get a safety deposit box at a nearby bank when we moved towns. We have never added to or withdrawn since. Not that good of evidence so I didn't bother. I certainly wouldn't send 24 statements showing an account never used. Another account that pays better interest is where we actually stash "rainy day" money. Showing that it has increased and that we trust each other to have control over $500, then $10k, then $30k is good evidence. Our credit card bills only had my name because he was only an authorized user. Poor evidence, so I just laid out four different credit cards his/her name but same card number, side by side on the copier which looked more like we shared credit. One piece of paper instead of four accounts times 24 statements each. I wrote on the bottom "Four shared credit cards". Yes I could have added his name and never turned over the card to him, but I thought it looked convincing enough along with the other bits of our lives.

I believe you have to use some good old logic to show your best stuff and skip reams of redundant paper that does not add anything but bulk.