AOS Interview documents

[A&H2018 148]

From your post, it seems doubtful that you came through the K1 process. Guessing it was some other visa, so guessing you did not send a ton of stuff beforehand like most of us then?

 

Remember to just speak the truth, tell your story and do not worry about any of that minor stuff if a question is asked about family etc...just say the truth. The joint account should be used for things like paying the lease/electrictiy/water/car-insurance. It does not need to have spending habits, but should sure have expenses you both share. People seem to keep making this mistake by not using the joint account to pay shared expenses, which then makes it much stronger evidence.

 

What about your taxes, did you file jointly for 2017? Is it at the same address that your lease is?

 

I would not scrap the text messages or receipts, recently those have been shown to be good evidence for lots of people trying to prove how their relationship started out. That said I would also take text messages that are everyday chat, you do not need everything lovey dovey always, just "i am at the mall, I am leaving work" kind of stuff. Just to show you communicate.

 

Could you add a mail at same address? Have examples of both of you getting mail at the leased address?

 

What about an advanced health directive? Since you have the family issues to overcome, an advanced health directive for sure will make your case stronger if you both do one.

Edited September 11, 2018 by A&H2018

[Lisa88 3]

37 minutes ago, A&H2018 said:

From your post, it seems doubtful that you came through the K1 process. Guessing it was some other visa, so guessing you did not send a ton of stuff beforehand like most of us then?

>> Yes. I am on F1 and I have been working on OPT.

 

Remember to just speak the truth, tell your story and do not worry about any of that minor stuff if a question is asked about family etc...just say the truth. The joint account should be used for things like paying the lease/electrictiy/water/car-insurance. It does not need to have spending habits, but should sure have expenses you both share. People seem to keep making this mistake by not using the joint account to pay shared expenses, which then makes it much stronger evidence.

>> We have been paying bills from each other's checking account that are not shared. Like I pay half from my own account, and my wife half from her own account. So our joint saving account is just there with only a little balance. We rarely use it. I am not sure if I should still take it with us to the interview. 

 

What about your taxes, did you file jointly for 2017? Is it at the same address that your lease is?

>> Thanks for reminding me! I totally forgot about including this in the list. We did joint tax return for 2017 and we were already living together when we filed it (earlier this year). We will definitely be taking it with us.

 

I would not scrap the text messages or receipts, recently those have been shown to be good evidence for lots of people trying to prove how their relationship started out. That said I would also take text messages that are everyday chat, you do not need everything lovey dovey always, just "i am at the mall, I am leaving work" kind of stuff. Just to show you communicate.

>> You would NOT scrap text messages? Or You would? I am planning to show some texts from each year we were together. 

 

Could you add a mail at same address? Have examples of both of you getting mail at the leased address?

>> I have some ads or promotion letters etc from random stores, that were delivered to our address. Can we take those as well? Most of the time, those letters only have one of our names. Either mine or my wife's.

 

What about an advanced health directive? Since you have the family issues to overcome, an advanced health directive for sure will make your case stronger if you both do one.

>> Unfortunately neither of us has one. 

 

[A&H2018 148]

You can do an advanced health directive easily online. For sure take the joint accont information and try in the future to make it a habit to use it more for shared expenses. 

Yah the mail should be fine, you basically just want to show you both get mail and have access to it at the same address. So yes again, take those.

 

Sorry meant do not scrap the text messages. Again just add some more casaul ones.

Edited September 11, 2018 by A&H2018

[TNJ17 1,329]

Most of your concerns don’t really matter. You don’t have to have a baby to prove your relationship is real. Babies, blegh!!! All the docs you suggested are more than fine. I wouldn’t worry about 8 and 9 on your original post. Not really relevant or required. Focus on the relationship now. Don’t bring gifts to interview. Bring receipts of gifts. 

[ttram312 10]

I think you should be fine. I was also F-1 and working on OPT when I met my husband. We got married 2 months after dating and didn't tell both our parents for the first 3 months (also did a private wedding with only us and a random guy as witness). We probably had same amount of proof as you (affidavit by landlord, joint tax return, phone bill, life insurance, car insurance, plane ticket, picture). 

 

For the interview, the officer asked how we met, basically observed our interaction together, went through all the documents that we submitted and approved us. I think as long as you are genuine and honest during the interview, you should be fine. 

Edited September 11, 2018 by ttram312

[Diane and Chris 651]

3 hours ago, Ben&Zian said:

Ugh we have ROC in a year almost, not looking forward to starting that myself personally.

Just got approved for AOS after 15 months. Definitely don’t even want to think about ROC, but, it happens before you know it, right?  😊

[Ketsuban 1,034]

I'm in a hetero marriage and we've decided to not have children. It's not an issue for immigration at all, you don't have to explain the lack of them or anything like that.

 

My husband is an over-spender and I save every cent I can. What we did was create a joint account and pay all of our bills from it, or give each other money we owe to each other through it. It makes it look quite active and it's actually been very convenient for us. We have our wages paid into our own individual accounts and have separate credit cards and neither of those was an issue for ROC.

 

ROC was long, annoying and frustrating, especially with the technical issues USCIS keeps having. But in comparison to getting the visa to come here, it was a walk in the park. You send in one form with all of your evidence, go to a biometrics appointment and then wait for the outcome. Usually there is no interview for it and if you sent in a diverse package of joint thingies, you're not likely to get an RFE either

[Butziee 25]

Greetings, sorry for asking on this thread. Me and my wife got married June 2018 and were wondering what documents we should prepare for the AOS interview. A little summary about our situation- We are both young  22 and 23, and currently living under the same roof as my father who is helping me sponsor my wife with AOS. I am in nursing school and will graduate 2019, so until then i'll be working part time while in school not being able to be eligible for benefits, so i wont be able to include my wife in that. We have pictures of dates and with family members and a joint bank account under both our names. We will open a cell phone line for my wife as soon as her work permit arrives, so that plan will be other both of our names. 

 

Any advice on what documents or proof we can add while we wait for the aos interview is appreciated, thank you!

[Wisconsinbly 46]

OP, my wife and I had a similar situation before AOS. We're a same-sex couple, no kids, some of my family members know about our relationship and marriage, others don't. Yet, at the interview we were not asked any questions besides what we had already submitted with our petition.

 

I think the amount of financial co-mingling and other proof of a genuine relationship that you have is good. We had about the same things, if not less. Pictures printed on regular paper, not photographs, are also very acceptable. 

 

Look into taxes submitted jointly - they like looking at that.

 

At the interview, be yourself and be honest. It's okay to not remember something. My advice would be to not go into detail about every little thing; just answer their questions short and simple. A lot of the things you are worried about might not even come up during your interview (but be prepared and tell the truth in case they do).

 

I would suggest refreshing the dates of when you entered the United States originally, how long you stayed for, and all the details of how you changed your visa from F1 to OPT. From what I've seen, officers do like to ask questions about previous visas and how one got to be in the U.S. (if visas are different from K1 and spousal visa).

 

Good luck!

[Wisconsinbly 46]

21 minutes ago, Butziee said:

Greetings, sorry for asking on this thread. Me and my wife got married June 2018 and were wondering what documents we should prepare for the AOS interview. A little summary about our situation- We are both young  22 and 23, and currently living under the same roof as my father who is helping me sponsor my wife with AOS. I am in nursing school and will graduate 2019, so until then i'll be working part time while in school not being able to be eligible for benefits, so i wont be able to include my wife in that. We have pictures of dates and with family members and a joint bank account under both our names. We will open a cell phone line for my wife as soon as her work permit arrives, so that plan will be other both of our names. 

 

Any advice on what documents or proof we can add while we wait for the aos interview is appreciated, thank you!

Hello!

Give this link a read - http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1k3aos

[Mr.Jose 64]

On 9/11/2018 at 10:13 PM, Ben&Zian said:

 

 

For starters, being same sex has nothing to do with any outcome, nor is not having a baby. A kid just means people had sex, it isn't even relevant.

 

As for your evidence, what did you initially send in with the I-485? 

 

As for your list above, lease agreements with both names good. Joint bills with both names, good. Joint car insurance good. Health insurance and all good. Those are main things that show mingling.

 

The receipts from dinners and such, not so much just means you two went to eat somewhere.... but you can use them if you want to. Gifts, not sure that holds much weight either.

 

The joint bank account is good though. We have only a joint savings, but kept separate checking accounts.

 

Court house wedding is fine, it's legal so... we did the same. 

 

Literally for us, as we didn't have to do the AOS interview or anything, we only sent with out original I-485 packet, copy of joint lease with both names and the joint savings account. That was it. We didn't have time to get everything else in order to go with it; but we had no issues. 

 

So again for you, joint lease, joint bills, the joint account, car insurance and medicals all are good things. 

 

Perhaps you have a life insurance policy where your spouse would be main beneficiary of the money? That is also good evidence.

Wow Really? Having a child means more than just having sex. Do you know that thousands of couples can’t produce a baby and are struggling to do so? Having a baby means couples decided to have a son or a daughter they can love, feed, support, and welcome into this world, and hopefully the kid can grow up and have a good life. Remember, you were also once a baby.

[p-ana 933]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Jose said:

Wow Really? Having a child means more than just having sex. Do you know that thousands of couples can’t produce a baby and are struggling to do so? Having a baby means couples decided to have a son or a daughter they can love, feed, support, and welcome into this world, and hopefully the kid can grow up and have a good life. Remember, you were also once a baby.

Not necessarily, not relevant anyway

[Little_Vixen 1,869]

Just now, Mr.Jose said:

Wow Really? Having a child means more than just having sex. Do you know that thousands of couples can’t produce a baby and are struggling to do so? Having a baby means couples decided to have a son or a daughter they can love, feed, support, and welcome into this world, and hopefully the kid can grow up and have a good life. Remember, you were also once a baby.

For immigration purposes, ' just' having a baby is not considered proof of relationship. If it made immigration easier there would be many people  who happened to get pregnant right before filing. Just like having met once does not mean you are in a relationship (a hard requirement for the K1). But it is or can be part of the evidence. If you add having a baby to the other evidence you have, then it probably will be considered in with the rest of the proof. 

' Just'  having a baby does not prove a relationship, it only proves you had sex. And tbh, with todays technology it don't even prove that. 

 

[Ben&Zian 4,398]

11 minutes ago, Mr.Jose said:

Wow Really? Having a child means more than just having sex. Do you know that thousands of couples can’t produce a baby and are struggling to do so? Having a baby means couples decided to have a son or a daughter they can love, feed, support, and welcome into this world, and hopefully the kid can grow up and have a good life. Remember, you were also once a baby.

 

Exactly as others have said, using a pregnancy or child as "evidence" would be merely a tool for immigration purposes and everyone would just be getting pregnant to have this "proof".  People will do ridiculous things to get what they want including to get to the US. Think it hasn't been tried before? I'm sure it has been done. Why do you think pregnancy isn't "expedite" criteria? (except for in some specific/dire situations) Cause a lot of people would abuse it.

Edited September 14, 2018 by Ben&Zian