Please advise --- Completed I751 package ready for next week mail out

[DannyD 4]

Hi VJ family,

Our package has about 100 pages.  We share a house with another couple and they take care of utility bills so we don't have house utility bills under our names. I briefly explain this in the cover letter. Please help to advise if my evidences are strong enough? we have included everything  we can possibly find.  Thank you much! (my wife is the conditional resident)

 

Table of Contents

Exhibit A:

Bank check of $680 for I-751 Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence + Biometric service fee

Front and back copy of wife Permanent Resident Card

Original Form I-751 filled and signed by us

Exhibit B:

Copy of our certified Marriage Certificate

Copy of joint monthly bank statements checking account from 2016 to 2018

Copy of joint residential lease agreement

Copy of our driver licenses showing the same current home address

Copy of joint tax return transcripts from the IRS in 2017

Copy of joint tax return transcripts from the IRS in 2016

Copy of joint auto insurance policy

Copy of health insurance cards from husband employer for employee and spouse

Copy of husband's life insurance policy showing spouse and mother are beneficiaries

Copy of T-Mobile family plan has wife's name in the list

Exhibit 😄

·         Photo of our baby’s ultrasound

·         Photo of family gathering in Thanksgiving 2017

·         Photo of family gathering in Christmas 2017

           Photo of Seattle trip in May 2018 + copy of airline ticket reservation

        Photo of Vegas trip December 2017 + copy of hotel reservation

·         Photo of Singapore trip in July 2017 + copy of airline ticket reservation

·         Photo of Japan trip in August 2017 + copy of hotel reservation

·         Photo of husband’s mother visiting wife’s parents oversea during her trip in 2018

·         Photo of us socialize with friends and family throughout the years

 

Exhibit 😧

·         Original affidavit support letters sworn by 2 friends

 

 

 

[Y3+E 25]

Re. your baby.  Do you have any OB medical bills addressed to your home address?  And, cancelled medical bill payment checks signed by U.S. Citizen spouse?  Or, electronic bill payments to OB Doctor from joint bank account?  Possibly a letter from OB doctor on wife's pregnancy?

[Ash.1101 1,756]

Even if ya'll don't have both of your names on bills, you can send copies of bills that are addressed and for the same address.

Example, electricity is in my name, cable is in my husbands name. They are both listed for the same home, and have the same mailing address for that home.

[hmz 6]

I didn't include anything on my wife's pregnancy.

 

I could be wrong though, but USCIS doesn't care about ongoing pregnancies so its irrelevant to include anything related to.

[DannyD 4]

Thank you  hmz, Ash, Y3, I will add more documents from your advise

[Y3+E 25]

3 hours ago, hmz said:

I didn't include anything on my wife's pregnancy.

 

I could be wrong though, but USCIS doesn't care about ongoing pregnancies so its irrelevant to include anything related to.

We had a child, born in the Dominican Republic, and given U.S. Citizenship by the U.S. Embassy there.  Empirically, we believe that this one fact helped up more than any other facts in “demonstrating a bonafide marriage to USCIS.” We studied for days for our interview at the U.S. Embassy.  There were dozens of of examples online questions asked at the embassy in the DR.  When we went for our interview, we of course took our baby with us.  The interviewing officer asked us only one question.  “Is that your daughter, [name]?  We said yes; and, the officer said that our visa applications were approved.  (We couldn't believe that the interview was over after that one question!!!)

 

When submitting our evidence for our I-751.  We did submit a copy of the U.S. Consular Report of Birth Abroad showing the birth of our daughter which demonstrated a bonafide marriage.  We submitted the baby's medical bills.

 

We only submitted a one-page bank statement for one month without all of the supporting transaction pages.  We only submitted one year’s federal tax return summary sheet without all of the schedules.  (It wasn’t until after we submitted our application did we find VJ and all the horror stories of RFE for more complete bank and tax records).

 

We did not submit any house mortgage, rental, car, or utility bills.  We did not submit most of the evidence recommended on this forum (but, we sweated big-time after learning on VJ all of the things that we should have submitted, i.e., evidence that we had, but did not submit.)

 

Fortunately, we did not receive an RFE, and we were approved last week.

 

I honestly don’t know how the USCIS weighs a pregnancy.  And, yes a couple having a child together differs from a couple's pregnancy.  But, I believe that this goes a long way to demonstrating a bonafide marriage.

Edited September 17, 2018 by Y3+E
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