I-751 - Two seperate Addresses?

[SAS007 5]

Hi all, 

 

Long story short, my commute is super long, and my wife was heavily pregnant. We decided she would live with her parents in the last months of pregnancy as it was closer for her own work commitments and we agreed that the money from our old lease would go to a new place closer to my own work. I basically live in this property 3 to 4 days per week and live with her and the parents the rest of the time. 

 

Now the baby is here we have continued this trend, where I am at this other property a few days a week (my commute is circa 2.5 hours each way otherwise!). Once the baby is older and she is working, things will of course change.

We have all the evidence from Joint taxes for two years filing, Joint lease from past property, Joint medical insurance, Joint auto insurance and car loans, showing my spouse as beneficiary etc... and of course our new baby birth certificate! Plus photos of our wedding, honeymoon, birth etc. 

 

Question: I am declaring that I live with her and the parents as our physical address (and that the baby lives with me), but for transparency, in the appendix section I've included the other address under my name with a short description saying its used for work purposes for a few days a week. Is this going to cause alarm bells to ring? My fear is by not putting it, they may run a check against my SSN and it will show this other address, so I want to be transparent with it. 

 

Likewise, would they really split up a family if you have had a child here during your two years?

 

Thank you all in advance for your help! Such a stressful process! 

[kpeck 22]

54 minutes ago, SAS007 said:

Hi all, 

 

Long story short, my commute is super long, and my wife was heavily pregnant. We decided she would live with her parents in the last months of pregnancy as it was closer for her own work commitments and we agreed that the money from our old lease would go to a new place closer to my own work. I basically live in this property 3 to 4 days per week and live with her and the parents the rest of the time. 

 

Now the baby is here we have continued this trend, where I am at this other property a few days a week (my commute is circa 2.5 hours each way otherwise!). Once the baby is older and she is working, things will of course change.

We have all the evidence from Joint taxes for two years filing, Joint lease from past property, Joint medical insurance, Joint auto insurance and car loans, showing my spouse as beneficiary etc... and of course our new baby birth certificate! Plus photos of our wedding, honeymoon, birth etc. 

 

Question: I am declaring that I live with her and the parents as our physical address (and that the baby lives with me), but for transparency, in the appendix section I've included the other address under my name with a short description saying its used for work purposes for a few days a week. Is this going to cause alarm bells to ring? My fear is by not putting it, they may run a check against my SSN and it will show this other address, so I want to be transparent with it. 

 

Likewise, would they really split up a family if you have had a child here during your two years?

 

Thank you all in advance for your help! Such a stressful process! 

I don't have any specific experience with this, but I think that as long as you include an explanation, you will have no issues. 

 

Just make sure to include your other evidence showing your financial ties with your wife (joint bank account/beneficiary of life insurance/dependent on health insurance, if that's the case, etc./tax transcripts showing married filing jointly, etc.).

 

Your living situation is perfectly reasonable given your commute and your wife's pregnancy, etc. and I know of couples (not in the immigration process, however), that have a similar arrangement. 

 

Again, as you said - transparency is key!

[SAS007 5]

5 minutes ago, kpeck said:

I don't have any specific experience with this, but I think that as long as you include an explanation, you will have no issues. 

 

Just make sure to include your other evidence showing your financial ties with your wife (joint bank account/beneficiary of life insurance/dependent on health insurance, if that's the case, etc./tax transcripts showing married filing jointly, etc.).

 

Your living situation is perfectly reasonable given your commute and your wife's pregnancy, etc. and I know of couples (not in the immigration process, however), that have a similar arrangement. 

 

Again, as you said - transparency is key!

Thank you for your response!

 

We literally put a short one line description with the address I use for commute explaining its used a few days a week as a secondary address. I guess at the same time we didn't want to raise it as a big thing (because it isn't), but likewise i'm concerned if they will want to know more about it, even thought we have all the evidence... including having a child!

[kpeck 22]

51 minutes ago, SAS007 said:

Thank you for your response!

 

We literally put a short one line description with the address I use for commute explaining its used a few days a week as a secondary address. I guess at the same time we didn't want to raise it as a big thing (because it isn't), but likewise i'm concerned if they will want to know more about it, even thought we have all the evidence... including having a child!

Yes... I'm sure that will be just fine!  

 

 

[lierre 224]

My husband is in the military and is in the middle of nowhere. We decided for me to go to school in person in another city but the same state. We bought a house in the city where i'm at. He rents in the city where the base is at. His base is 3.5 hours away. But, we see each other almost every week. I sometimes drive there; sometimes he drives here. His mailing address for his subscriptions, our bank accounts, our mortgage, etc. is with our house in the city where i'm at. We don't have kids. This was a decision made on me wanting to advance my career while he works on his career, too.

 

I applied for Removal of Conditions in January/February 2016 timeframe and got my 10 year card in June 2016. From what I can best remember, the address in our application was just our mailing address, for the house we own. Not his rental. However, I believe your thinking here is best. Better to be upfront. I wrote a cover letter that listed all the stuff in the packet and that my husband is in the military and rents in another city. I wrote a few lines similar to what I said above explaining our decision.

 

I think that as long as you show you're not separated due to a breakdown in marriage, you'd be fine. Good luck!

Edited June 19, 2017 by ivyanddan
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