RFE After Interview for Bona Fide Marriage

[Maxi_López 1]

50 minutes ago, Marco&Bettina said:

You've asked twice now. I haven't seen it answered. New evidence. I mean you can send in the old evidence as a recap but they obviously want more/new evidence. If you send the same stuff in for the RFE, it'll be denied. I'm honestly surprised you sent in the same evidence for your ROC as you did your AOS.

 

2nd edit: We are in the waiting limbo right now for this process. We didn't send a large packet at all. We didn't send all possible evidences. Just very key evidences. Like basically the stuff at the top of the list. No pics. No bank statements. But we are confident that we will be approved. Even if we get an RFE, there is plenty of additional evidence we can supply easily. Not to mention that the birth of our 2nd child is currently forecast to be late Nov/early Dec, which will be before any decision has been made in our case based off current processing times.

This interview was for the AOS, not ROC. If we are approved, I won't have a ROC situation, because we've been married for more than two years. (Thanks to USCIS, btw)

 

You're lucky you have so much evidence. I think it will be very easy for you.

[mushroomspore 3,044]

31 minutes ago, Maxi_López said:

This interview was for the AOS, not ROC. If we are approved, I won't have a ROC situation, because we've been married for more than two years. (Thanks to USCIS, btw)

 

You're lucky you have so much evidence. I think it will be very easy for you.

The fact you've been married for more than 2 years is also probably a factor. I think overall, IO's tend to be a little more "forgiving" towards couples married less than 2 years. For couples married longer than that, I think they expect more evidence.

 

In that case, include tax returns for ALL the years you've been married as they all should have been filed as "married, filing jointly" or "married, filing separately". As well as other evidence from every single year you've been married.

 

Also sorry if I missed it but I am not sure if you answered my previous question: what evidence did you send in with your original I-130/I-485 packet??

[EireneFaith 54]

Last Will and Testament is also important documents.

[Lucky2Lucky 2,526]

Marriage certificate should be #1. Have friends and family write affidavits supporting your marriage. 

[Camelot13 63]

I was also going to suggest a will. Plus, add each other as beneficiaries on anything you can - credit cards, bank accounts, and retirement accounts can designate beneficiaries if your partner is not already on the account. 

[A&H2018 148]

Truly, if you been married over 4 years you stated? That is very light evidence. Also bit confused why your wife is presenting the information and keeping track of it. Maybe she is better at that stuff, but she is not the one on here asking questions/help then. I suggest you take over the process.

[A&H2018 148]

Btw, I assume the mods are going to merge your threads. May want to take a breath here, as you have multipe threads and some confusing short answers. Hard to understand what is going on.

[Maxi_López 1]

16 minutes ago, A&H2018 said:

Btw, I assume the mods are going to merge your threads. May want to take a breath here, as you have multipe threads and some confusing short answers. Hard to understand what is going on.

Take a breath is a good advice, but multiple threads... well, I have only two!

[mushroomspore 3,044]

41 minutes ago, A&H2018 said:

Truly, if you been married over 4 years you stated? That is very light evidence. Also bit confused why your wife is presenting the information and keeping track of it. Maybe she is better at that stuff, but she is not the one on here asking questions/help then. I suggest you take over the process.

I have to agree with this. I didn't realize OP was married for 4 years. This is quite a long time so paperwork covering this entire time period needs to be presented, as stipulated by the RFE.

[Maxi_López 1]

52 minutes ago, mushroomspore said:

I have to agree with this. I didn't realize OP was married for 4 years. This is quite a long time so paperwork covering this entire time period needs to be presented, as stipulated by the RFE.

It is what it is. I can't show things I don't have, for the reasons explained above. 

[A&H2018 148]

The moda do not like more than 1 thread.

The main thing is taxes even if outside the USA, your spouse had to file them for the last 4 years.

 

Things people used. Text logs during relationship, over 4 yeara you must have texted. Should have a section where you had mail at the same address, did you not keep any old mail copies ever. You should get an advanced health directive for you both. Someone got an electronic lock at the same residence to proof what times each person was there. Recipts of any gifts is another one. Joint email accounts, or emails both are on ( party invitations, trip plans etc...).

 

But truly you need the health directive and more financial ties. For anyone to see a couple married 4 years and just recently after applying for AOS is commingling finances is rather strange.

[Maxi_López 1]

9 hours ago, A&H2018 said:

The moda do not like more than 1 thread.

The main thing is taxes even if outside the USA, your spouse had to file them for the last 4 years.

 

Things people used. Text logs during relationship, over 4 yeara you must have texted. Should have a section where you had mail at the same address, did you not keep any old mail copies ever. You should get an advanced health directive for you both. Someone got an electronic lock at the same residence to proof what times each person was there. Recipts of any gifts is another one. Joint email accounts, or emails both are on ( party invitations, trip plans etc...).

 

But truly you need the health directive and more financial ties. For anyone to see a couple married 4 years and just recently after applying for AOS is commingling finances is rather strange.

Text logs is something I thought I didn't have much because I have the habit of deleting my inbox (in my phone and my email account) because I don't like clutter, but luckily I didn't delete everything and do have quite a lot of exchanged messages saved. So, thanks for that. My wife has probably way more texts and emails saved than me too. One more thing to send to USCIS. Thanks again.

 

 

[cablewyres 38]

Hi,

 

Sorry to hear about how your aos interview went. I believe the IO was being nitpicky as others have also expressed.

 

You should be fine. With them sending you an RFE, simply respond and supply to them what they are requesting. There are a couple of things you can send them even at this point.

 

I would suggest, to send them (on top of what you’ve already presented to them):

-Wills and PoA

-greeting cards sent to you from friends and family

-notarized or sworn affidavits from friends and family (at least 2 should suffice)

-if you have bills under your name and some under your spouse’s name (send them as long as they show the same address)

-copies of your joint bank cards itself (credit and debit cards)

-more pictures (time line them would be better)

-marriage certificate & marriage license

-joint tax return (transcript)

-more joint bank statements

-at this point even random mails sent to both of you would help your case

 

Our AOS interview was a favor from God. We went to the interview and not even as thoroughly prepared and informed as other couples since we filed everything ourselves. The documents we only had with us during the interview (since we were only married for two months when we had our interview) were:

-marriage license and cerificate

-pictures (about 200)

-new joint dental insurance policy & cards

-2 months of joint bank statements since time of marriage (we have our own individual bank accounts but did not have to present them)

-random mails sent to both of us

 

That was it Lol.. We did not have any lease yet since I didn’t have my ssn..no kids since we just got married..our licenses/ids didn’t even match the same address yet because we both were from different states prioir to moving in together after marriage..no joint health insurance...no car insurance since we didn’t have any cars at that time (we were ubering most of the time)...

 

But by God’s grace, we were approved..though we had to wait 2 months after the interview to get the GC in the mail.

 

So I believe you should be fine. You have good evidences and there are more you can gather to support your case.

 

Wish you the best!

[Maxi_López 1]

24 minutes ago, cablewyres said:

Hi,

 

Sorry to hear about how your aos interview went. I believe the IO was being nitpicky as others have also expressed.

 

You should be fine. With them sending you an RFE, simply respond and supply to them what they are requesting. There are a couple of things you can send them even at this point.

 

I would suggest, to send them (on top of what you’ve already presented to them):

-Wills and PoA

-greeting cards sent to you from friends and family

-notarized or sworn affidavits from friends and family (at least 2 should suffice)

-if you have bills under your name and some under your spouse’s name (send them as long as they show the same address)

-copies of your joint bank cards itself (credit and debit cards)

-more pictures (time line them would be better)

-marriage certificate & marriage license

-joint tax return (transcript)

-more joint bank statements

-at this point even random mails sent to both of you would help your case

 

Our AOS interview was a favor from God. We went to the interview and not even as thoroughly prepared and informed as other couples since we filed everything ourselves. The documents we only had with us during the interview (since we were only married for two months when we had our interview) were:

-marriage license and cerificate

-pictures (about 200)

-new joint dental insurance policy & cards

-2 months of joint bank statements since time of marriage (we have our own individual bank accounts but did not have to present them)

-random mails sent to both of us

 

That was it Lol.. We did not have any lease yet since I didn’t have my ssn..no kids since we just got married..our licenses/ids didn’t even match the same address yet because we both were from different states prioir to moving in together after marriage..no joint health insurance...no car insurance since we didn’t have any cars at that time (we were ubering most of the time)...

 

But by God’s grace, we were approved..though we had to wait 2 months after the interview to get the GC in the mail.

 

So I believe you should be fine. You have good evidences and there are more you can gather to support your case.

 

Wish you the best!

Thank you very much for your ideas and tips and more importantly your optimism and support!