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[minttea 4]

My interview is next month and I just realised I do not have copies of the AOS and Affidavit of Support forms I submitted in January. 

 

Do I NEED copies of them if USCIS has the originals? Has this happened to

anyone?

 

I might fill out a new Affidavit because it’s a new tax year. 

 

Thanks so much for your help!

[K1visaHopeful 2,817]

I did not bring an I485.

I did bring an updated I864 because it was a new tax year and we filed as married filing jointly and our income increased.

Our IO asked for neither.

[Pitaya 2,577]

Make good color laser copies of all of your important valuable documents. You know the ones, that would be very hard to replace. Place the originals in plastic presentation page protector sleeves. At the interview should they want to view a document, show them the original in the page protectors, and ask them to compare the original to the copy. Give them the copy, you still retaining the original.

 

Whatever you don't dig up now, save it all up for the ROC in a couple of years. Actually I usually recommend that after folks successfully get their 2-yr GC, and enjoy a respite from USCIS, get a shoe box of a file cabinet drawer. Over the 18 month hiatus, put any and all "marriage bonafides" (USCIS-speak, certainly not mine) evidence you come across.....leases, deeds, wills, trusts, DPOAs, joint about statements (basically anything joint), holiday cards, etc. You can sort through your accumulated evidence when you are starting to consider going to your ROC.

 

Good luck on your immigration journey.