I-751 evidence of co-mingling (split)

[Jon York 156]

I thought my wife (petitioner) and I were going to be fine until I started reading all this!  Our ROC is due in October of this year.  

 

Since we are legitimately married and have lived together at the same address, I thought we had plenty of evidence, but now I'm getting worried that we don't have enough evidence of co-mingled accounts.  

 

I would appreciate if anyone could give some feedback.  

 

We live in the apartment that I lived in 7 years before we got married.  My name has always been on the lease and it didn't even occur to me to add her name to it (until now)! But, even if it had, I would be leery of asking the landlord to do it.  He's a small landlord, he just owns this building that only has 3 units.  So, if you bring something like this to his attention, it may remind him to do something else. In other words, if I asked him to issue a new lease with my wife's name on it, it might also remind him that it's time to raise the rent!  Something he's forgotten to do for the last couple of years.  For that reason, I wouldn't have asked him to do this, even if I had thought of it in relation to ROC.

 

As far as financial accounts, I put my wife's name on three personal bank accounts I have as soon as possible after she arrived.  That was about a year later because the banks wouldn't accept her name until she had her green card.  They said she didn't have enough time left on her existing visa at the time.  

 

On utility bills, it did occur to me to add her name to one or two of those when she first arrived.  But when I called the electric/gas company they said, "there's no reason to add your wife's name to this. It's fine to keep it in your name."  I told them I needed to do it for identification/immigration purposes and they basically wouldn't let me do it.  They kept saying they only need one name on the account.  

I do have three years of joint tax returns with both our names on them.  We have the three bank accounts with her name on them.  And we have health insurance with both our names on it.  And that's about it.  The only other evidences we have that we live together (which I think are strong, but apparently the government considers soft), are friends who have written affidavits for us.  And we host guests through Airbnb.  We have numerous reviews on Airbnb where the guests have mentioned both of our names, meaning they saw us both living together in the same apartment. 

 

So do you think it will matter much if we don't have our names together on our lease or utility bills?  

 

Also, when we send copies of the bank statements, do we have to send every page of every statement - or just the first page that shows both our names on it?  

 

Thank you all much!

 

 

[Boiler 46,141]

How is the AirBnB going?

[mondix 12]

I have a similar situation - we haven't added hubby to the lease.  If we do it now - we're up for removal in April 2018, would there be any red flag as to why we didn't do it sooner?

 

He's been on the utility bill for 2 years, joint accounts and health insurance show the same address, his driver license shows the same address as mine, etc. 

 

Thanks!

sorry - removal of conditions. 

 

god. removal is a scary word with used out of context!

[Jon York 156]

On 7/29/2017 at 6:02 PM, CookieCat said:

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!  Really... you've been amazing to us and everyone else here!