Upcoming AOS Interview- Evidence?

[Lena95 14]

Hey guys!

 

First of all I'm sorry if its too much to read :$

 

But it's getting closer to the end of this nerve-wracking journey. 

Our Interview is getting closer and closer (April 4th) and I'm super nervous and scared that they may deny me. Me and my wife got nothing to hide so im all relaxed about that..its more about all the evidence we have to show and im scared that they may not like something and send me back home

But anyways...I got a couple of questions about our evidence. 

 

• My wife still needs to file her taxes. Is it necessary for her to file them jointly with me? How would that actually work if I didnt work here or anything like that? Or would it be okay for her just to file them as married? 

 

• Tomorrow we are going to the Social Security place so I can apply for Social Security since I got my EAD last week and also for her so she can change her name on her SSN to our married name. And after that we want to go to the Bank so she can put me into her Bank (wells fargo) account and we also wanted to open a joint bank account together. We actually tried everything with the bank in December but they told us that I needed social security before we are able to do so.

 

• The House: the thing about the House is a little tricky I wanna say.

We do have a house but its under her brothers name cause its his old House. Right now we are fixing it so hopefully we get to move in there before this Summer. Right now we're living in her parents House basically for free. Her parents House is in the same property which is about 2-3 acres big. 

We are not paying rent or anything so its kind of hard to show that we actually have something like that together. We wanted to put the House under my wife's and my name but it feels like we dont have enough time to go through this process before April 4th.

Has anyone an idea how we could explain this to USCIS when we have the Interview? 

We live in South Texas 30mins away from the Mexican border..her dad is Mexican and my wife told me that people who live here in this area know that mexicans share and do as much for their families as they can so I shouldn't worry about it. But I do cause im taking this very seriously since USCIS officers dont know us and they have to go with the evidence we're providing and not with whats going on with families and culture. 

 

• health insurance..for that it was already too late for her to put me in. She is a teacher in a small district and we couldn't get it through cause they told us the circle already closed when we tried in the beginning of February. 

 

• Pictures..we already sent over 100 pictures with our application so that shouldn't be a problem. We are just going to print out the ones we took after we filed so we should be good with pictures.

 

• we also have a phone plan together and my wife put me as an authorized user since that was the only possibility t-mobile gave us. We already sent proof of that with our application tho.

 

 

I dont really know what else we could use as evidence. 

 

So far we have: pictures, soon a joint bank account and my name in her own bank account, flight tickets that I visited her and she visited me, we have a phone plan together, we have a tattoo together (I have her name and she has mine) since March 2016 [if that's even considered as evidence], we got a puppy together, my sister sent us a Christmas gift from Germany with both of our names on the label and 'Merry Christmas' written on the outside of the package, of course Screenshots of the duration our skype video calls (already provided with the application), and thats all I can think of right now.

 

Would that be enough evidence to show at the interview? We would appreciate any help!

 

I hope I expressed myself clearly..if not then please let me know.

 

Thank you!

 

Edited March 13, 2017 by Lena95

[ozrock 9]

do you have any other items with letters sent to you?  my wife has health care bills, magazine subscriptions, even amazon prime records.... not the greatest but if anything can help, go for it.

[Lena95 14]

36 minutes ago, ozrock said:

do you have any other items with letters sent to you?  my wife has health care bills, magazine subscriptions, even amazon prime records.... not the greatest but if anything can help, go for it.

Thanks for your answer!

 

Well we got a bit more..we got a plenti card together, we orderd stuff from Amazon under both of our names so I can probably print that out, we can probably also put our puppy under both of our names, and thats all I can think of right now. I don't know if im missing certain things but I think thats about it.

We're still trying to speed things up to figure it out with the house cause thats a major thing to do. We just didnt get a chance cause all of her siblings including her are teachers so they didn't get days off until spring break. But if we dont get this done then im kind of worried :/ 

[ozrock 9]

100 photos is a lot.  If I were you I would also have a few very selective and rich photos that show you guys living around your parents house. Draw a floor plan of where you live if you need to. Make it simple for the officer to see that you share this together.

[Lena95 14]

18 hours ago, ozrock said:

100 photos is a lot.  If I were you I would also have a few very selective and rich photos that show you guys living around your parents house. Draw a floor plan of where you live if you need to. Make it simple for the officer to see that you share this together.

Thanks! But what would you consider as rich photos?

The floor plan is a very good idea too!