Getting Package Ready (double checking)

[kiaradv 2]

Hi Everyone,

 

 

So I've been working very hard putting our package together.  Honestly, we waited till last minute to do this and I regret it with all of my heart.  I don't know why I thought this would be easy.  It's been hard putting evidence together (financially) because:

 

1. Where we first lived, we never made a contract because it was an efficiency.  I do have the checks we made out and I printed those out as evidence.  We did not have to pay for gas or light. Everything was included in the rent. 

2. My husband did not have a driver license  till like 6 months later after arriving.  So we were not able to add him to my bank account immediately. After he did get his DL, he took out his own bank account to take advantage of an offer on opening a new bank account.  We were struggling at the time and $300 upon opening a bank account was pretty nice. But previously to that, all of his checks were deposited to my account.  I printed those out too as evidence.

3. We moved back with my parents, and so, we are right now not paying any utilities or rent.

4.  I have a few credit card (which I rarely use because they are all to their limit for a while), but just recently added him to one of them because I was unaware I can add him from the beginning ( yes, I am that naive)

 

So here's my list of evidence that I will be including in our package and what my cover letter says in part:

 

I-751 Form and Check for $680: includes $595 the I-751 filling fee and $85 biometric service fee
Copy of green card: front and back sides
Copy of birth certificate of our son, born to our marriage
Copy of our bank account statement from the last two months.
        *Prior that, we had separate bank account due to the fact that initially we decided to take an offer to open a new bank account and it was under <husband> name.  But the main account has always been the one above, <wife's> account.  We will include proof all of direct deposits and check deposits from both of our jobs since we have arrived to the United States    
Copy of Bank Account Activities showing direct deposits and check deposits of <husband> to <wife> account.
Copy of letters for <husband> and <wife> to same address.
Copies of driver licenses showing our previous same address
*We have not updated our driver license to our new address
Copy of our Joint US Tax Return for 2016 and 2017
Copy of Car Insurance showing coverage for both
Copy of our health insurance policy showing a joint policy
Phone Bill showing Family Plan together and <wife> Family
    *<husband> initially had his own plan since I was not able to add him to my family plan but T-Mobile allowed me to add him as of July 2017
Pictures of us together with our family and friends
A copy of our airline reservations for a vacation that we enjoyed together in March 2017
Copy of our airline itinerary coming from Dominican Republic to NJ
Copies of our checks to pay rent in our first efficiency home in Florida (No contract was made)
Letter of <wife's> parent’s stating we are living with them as of July 2017

 

 

Please let me know what are your thoughts and if we should be ok with this!! I appreciate any honest and helpful advices!! 

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!  

[Ketsuban 1,034]

This seems pretty similar to my list, check mine out in my signature if you want to do a comparison. 

 

For everything that you don't have, make sure to explain it in your cover letter as you have here to us. 

 

I'm curious as to why your husband couldn't get a bank account until he got a DL? I opened an individual and a joint account at Huntington Bank as soon as I got my social security number. 

[kiaradv 2]

2 hours ago, Ketsuban said:

This seems pretty similar to my list, check mine out in my signature if you want to do a comparison. 

 

For everything that you don't have, make sure to explain it in your cover letter as you have here to us. 

 

I'm curious as to why your husband couldn't get a bank account until he got a DL? I opened an individual and a joint account at Huntington Bank as soon as I got my social security number. 

Thanks for responding!!! I need to take a look at your list and thanks for advising in explaining anything I don’t have

 

I don’t know why Chase required for him to have 2 identification, one of them being a DL or state issued ID. That’s what they stated when I tried to add him to my account at first and even now, that’s what they required!!