ROC Evidence: Bank statements - How long?

[Master Semaj 2]

So I'm compiling evidence to show me and the wifes financial co-mingling with bank statements showing my transfers to our joint account used for bills and everyday stuff. We have been paperless since I started my bank account so we haven't collected paper statements each month since we've been married. Our bank only allows us to view/print statements for roughly the last 18 months from online banking. We have obviously been married for more than that and USCIS wants to see statements "from the period of your marriage".

 

Do they really want to see 3+ years of bank statements to prove this? Has anyone else sent in less? Is 18 months worth of statements sufficient? Will I need to go to the bank and request a longer statement to cover the entire marriage?

 

Thanks.

[Scandi 4,180]

It doesn't have to be a statement for each month. You can take the very first one, the very last one and then every third-fourth month or so in between the two. Four statements per year etc. 

[Master Semaj 2]

2 minutes ago, Scandi said:

It doesn't have to be a statement for each month. You can take the very first one, the very last one and then every third-fourth month or so in between the two. Four statements per year etc. 

I understand. One other thing: our financial co-mingling only really started several months after our marriage. I was a kept man until my work permit came through and I got a job and started bringing money in to our household. Are they going to want to see statements where I had little to zero banking activity?

[Scandi 4,180]

2 minutes ago, Master Semaj said:

I understand. One other thing: our financial co-mingling only really started several months after our marriage. I was a kept man until my work permit came through and I got a job and started bringing money in to our household. Are they going to want to see statements where I had little to zero banking activity?

I doubt that will be an issue tbh. The only thing that would look odd was if you just started co-mingling your finances just a couple of months prior to your ROC application. And you obviously didn't, you've been co-mingling your finances much longer than that. Send whatever bank statements you have then along with all other proof of bonafide marriage. 

[Master Semaj 2]

2 minutes ago, CookieCat said:

The easiest thing for you to do would be:

1. Go to your bank and ask them to print out a one-page statement that says you and spouse have been joint account holders of account number xxxx from so-and-so date to current date

2. Print/Include as many statements as you want from the last 18 you have. I sent every statement but others have sent quarterly.

3. Explain in a sentence on your cover letter why you don't have statements prior to 18 months. This last step is optional if you're able to get that one page statement from your bank. If bank doesn't help you, then definitely explain in your cover letter.

Good luck and don't worry about this minor issue!

Gotcha.

We do have a statement showing the ownership of a joint account and my personal account, and then the recent last 18 months statements from both mine and the joint account of bank transfers showing me transferring money to our joint account which we use for bills and everyday expenses. I highlighted each transfer of mine showing that every 2 weeks, as I get paid, I transfer money.

 

If I state in a cover letter that this is the trend of how we co-mingle our finances and explain my online banking only gives me the last 18 months statements, but that I have been transfering money for longer before that, do you suppose that would be sufficient? I obviously will be going to the bank in person to see if they will print for me some older statements (perhaps starting from when i was first employed and was making transfers)

 

[Wuozopo 4,293]

3 hours ago, Master Semaj said:

So I'm compiling evidence to show me and the wifes financial co-mingling with bank statements showing my transfers to our joint account used for bills and everyday stuff. We have been paperless since I started my bank account so we haven't collected paper statements each month since we've been married. Our bank only allows us to view/print statements for roughly the last 18 months from online banking. We have obviously been married for more than that and USCIS wants to see statements "from the period of your marriage".

 

Do they really want to see 3+ years of bank statements to prove this? Has anyone else sent in less? Is 18 months worth of statements sufficient? Will I need to go to the bank and request a longer statement to cover the entire marriage?

 

Thanks.

 

My ROC included four statements from a joint checking account covering two years.  Also the bank document when we opened a savings account at a new bank somewhere midway. And about 3 statements from a joint money market account. The two accounts showed big balances and regular  activity. Didn't bother with the savings statements because it just sat there with no activity. (Had another reason we needed an account at that new bank.) Hence only sent the paperwork from opening it.