Joint bank account

[Fobosdaemios 24]

Hello everyone, 

 

My spouse and I have no joint bank account or joint ownership of anything. 

I heard from many people online saying that joint ownership or bank account would be strong evidence for bona fide marriage. Is that true?

If that is true, should I open a joint bank account or

Should I focus on pictures and other documents that proves my genuine marriage?

 

Thank you!

[Keem12 9]

It is to a certain extent, yes. Stronger cases would be pictures of travels and bills with both of your names on it

[JFH 12,190]

It is one form of strong evidence but it is definitely possible to be approved without a joint bank account. We were approved without one. You can submit other financial evidence such as wills, insurances listing each other as beneficiaries, etc. Evidence of time spent together is also very strong. Pictures are less strong, especially with all the editing software that is available nowadays. 

[Fobosdaemios 24]

We have no will or insurances that listing each other as beneficiaries. We only have pictures that we took together with my family in so many events when he visited me in USA. We have pictures and gifts that are from like 3-4 years ago too. And our boarding  passes of our trips. Im not sure if I include the skype logs that i call him every night for many years would be a strong ones. Would you guys suggest me to open a joint account now? 

Edited November 7, 2019 by Fobosdaemios

[carmel34 3,633]

15 hours ago, Fobosdaemios said:

We have no will or insurances that listing each other as beneficiaries.

I would suggest that you do a will, living will, power of attorney, add each other as beneficiaries on everything including retirement accounts, bank accounts, life insurance, add the spouse to US health insurance plans.  All of these are possible while one spouse lives outside the US, and do not take much time.  The wills can be done online for a small fee.  Good luck!

[Fobosdaemios 24]

9 hours ago, carmel34 said:

I would suggest that you do a will, living will, power of attorney, add each other as beneficiaries on everything including retirement accounts, bank accounts, life insurance, add the spouse to US health insurance plans.  All of these are possible while one spouse lives outside the US, and do not take much time.  The wills can be done online for a small fee.  Good luck!

for the living will, does my spouse has to be an American as well? and does he has to be in the country to sign the documents?

[LilyJ 1,258]

On 11/6/2019 at 7:12 PM, Fobosdaemios said:

We have no will or insurances that listing each other as beneficiaries. We only have pictures that we took together with my family in so many events when he visited me in USA. We have pictures and gifts that are from like 3-4 years ago too. And our boarding  passes of our trips. Im not sure if I include the skype logs that i call him every night for many years would be a strong ones. Would you guys suggest me to open a joint account now? 

These that you listed are also evidences of bona fide marriage as well. My husband and I only submitted documents like those and no financial documents at all (no joint bank, no will, no joint insurance) and we were approved with no RFE