Should I submit drivers licences/joint phone bill if the addresses aren't up to date?

[BrianK 1]

Currently responding to an RFE for more financial info on my I-751 application - applying to remove conditions on 2 year green card for me (foreign male) based on wife's citizenship. Married 4.5 years, moved to the US May of 2014, filed in April.

We have literally no bills in both our names, but we do all our banking through a joint account and 90% of our spending through one credit card in my wife's name that has me as authorzied user (for airline miles).

Two of the docs they asked for are (a) drivers licences and (b) phone bill. the issues are (a) my licence is at our address but my wife never updated hers after we moved our of her dad's place two and a half years ago (following moving back to the US), so they're showing different addresses, and (b) while we're both on the same cellphone plan under her name, my name doesn't actually appear on the bills (just her name and the two numbers) and, again, she never updated the address on the account after we moved out of her dad's place two years ago. Our account is paperless so guessing she never realized.

Should I exclude both?

Final question - my wife is 16 weeks pregnant. We haven't had a paternity test (no reason to do so) but I feel like the pregnancy could help with my adjustment of status. Is there anything I can send? All we have at this point is a bill from them women's healthcare clinic in my wife's name for $1500 as a first payment towards cost of services for ultrasounds/scans/bloodwork and eventually labour, though nowhere on the bill says it's for a pregnancy specifically, plus a bunch of ultrasound pictures. is there anything I can send at this point?

Thanks!

[Ketsuban 1,034]

I would write a letter explaining the phone bill and driver's license issue. I don't share a phone bill with my husband either so if it comes up for me I'll write in explaining why it's separate with back-up evidence to prove what I'm saying.

I've read here before a pregnancy may or may not help. I would send that evidence anyway (bills + ultrasound pics).

What else did you send with your original petition?

[Billett 14]

I have at&t and just like you is paperless and on my husband name but I logged in the app. And manage to edit the name on my number because my husband added a line for me but in the first 3 bills was only his name and the 2 numbers. I wrote my name and now the cellphone bill has my name on my number.

I would call the cellphone company and ask them to add your name on your number.

Good luck

[BrianK 1]

I would write a letter explaining the phone bill and driver's license issue. I don't share a phone bill with my husband either so if it comes up for me I'll write in explaining why it's separate with back-up evidence to prove what I'm saying.

I've read here before a pregnancy may or may not help. I would send that evidence anyway (bills + ultrasound pics).

What else did you send with your original petition?

I included the deed to our house with both our names on it (mortgage is in her name as I was too new to the US to have a positive effect on the mortgage rate), car insurance with both our names, three months joint bank account statements, three months CC bills in my name with her as authorized user (we had only just stopped using our individual accounts for all spending), two years joint tax returns, wedding/vacation photos plus airplane tickets with both of us on there for multiple vacations.

I can see how we didn't include enough bank info - until january of this year we both had our own bank accounts and credit cards, and while we obviously shared all our spending (i pay the mortgage, she pays some bills, I pay other bills, whomever gets to the checkout first pays for the groceries etc etc etc), we didn't specifically have it coming from the same sources.

In January we opened a joint account with capital one where we have our salaries paid into, all the bills come from, all our savings are. We opened a citi CC in my name that we did all our spending from until about April before we got one in her name which we use for all spending (both are for airline miles).

My plan is to get all our individual bank account statements from 2015 as well as individual CC statements from 2015 and include a note explaining how things worked, as well as including all bank statements/credit card statements from 2016, along with our monthly budgets in Mint showing our monthly budget is joint and we each have $250-400 for personal spending that we do on the one personal card we have each (not including those statements).

I'll probably include a few ultrasounds and whatever bills we have from there with a note saying she's preggo and expecting in may next year.

One of the items requested on the RFE was drivers licences but as I said she hasn't updated hers. They also asked for cellphone but that too is at her dad's address, and I'm wary of including anything that suggests she's not actually living at our house.

Hope that covers our situation.

I have at&t and just like you is paperless and on my husband name but I logged in the app. And manage to edit the name on my number because my husband added a line for me but in the first 3 bills was only his name and the 2 numbers. I wrote my name and now the cellphone bill has my name on my number.

I would call the cellphone company and ask them to add your name on your number.

Good luck

Thanks Billett. I might include it with a note of some kind or a screenshot from their website that does actually have the names on there. I'm slightly more worried that the address is wrong which might lead them to believe she doesn't actually live at our house.

[bgreen19 2]

Yes, include all of it. Write a cover letter explaining what you have included for each item they have requested. If you don't have it explain why. We also got an RFE and my wife's DL had our current address, however mine did not. They didn't specifically request our licenses but I sent them and included in our cover letter that the state of Colorado allows you to simply write in your new address on the back of your DL. We were approved last week.

[BrianK 1]

Yes, include all of it. Write a cover letter explaining what you have included for each item they have requested. If you don't have it explain why. We also got an RFE and my wife's DL had our current address, however mine did not. They didn't specifically request our licenses but I sent them and included in our cover letter that the state of Colorado allows you to simply write in your new address on the back of your DL. We were approved last week.

Thank you, that's good advice. Luckily my wife's replacement drivers licence arrived yesterday (with new address) and they didn't issue it with a new issued/expire date on it so that's useable, plus I changed the phone bill address although that's not due for another few weeks so not sure if we should wait for that or not.

Cover letter is a great idea. What I was thinking I would do was to put say all the banking stuff in a folder and then attach a sheet to the front of the folder outlining how our banking worked in the last 18 months (as it's complicated - we switched all our banks etc last january), but I guess one overall letter with bullet points on each item included and an explanation would work best.

Thanks!