Received RFE for CR1 VISA

[Mohsin786 23]

Hello Guys,

 

I'm putting this post for my sister. She filed for her husband and she received a RFE. I need your help in this and not sure how to provide the documents below

 

(a) Proof of joint insurance policies or that one party was listed as a beneficiary on the insured spouse’s policy;

(b) Property leases, mortgages, or registrations;

(c) Shared financial obligations and assets such as jointly filed income taxes showing that each return was properly filed with the state or federal government, or jointly held bank accounts, credit card accounts or utility bills;

 

Her husband has never been to US to having a joint insurance is not possible neither property lease or mortgage is because he has never been here.

Also, without a social security it is not possible to above mentioned listed documents.

 

I remember when i filed for my citizenship and they asked for the same documents and which is understandable is because i lived here and if someone never lived in US so how can they provide these documents. Please help what to do and your advise will be greatly appreciated.

 

[user555 196]

It sounds like USCIS didn't believe all the evidence she gave and wants more evidence. Did USCIS say she just needed to supply those three items?

[Mohsin786 23]

3 hours ago, user555 said:

It sounds like USCIS didn't believe all the evidence she gave and wants more evidence. Did USCIS say she just needed to supply those three items?

Yes. They did specify in the letter that they want those listed items. I'm thinking of writing an email to the immigration officer through online system. Do you think this will delay her process if i do that? 

[NikLR 13,232]

No but it wont help.

 

What did she send originally? Has she tried to make him the beneficiary or adding him to her bank account using s w8ben? 

[carmel34 3,650]

12 hours ago, Mohsin786 said:

(a) Proof of joint insurance policies or that one party was listed as a beneficiary on the insured spouse’s policy;

(b) Property leases, mortgages, or registrations;

(c) Shared financial obligations and assets such as jointly filed income taxes showing that each return was properly filed with the state or federal government, or jointly held bank accounts, credit card accounts or utility bills;

Someone living in the US can put a spouse who resides abroad on their US insurance, I did this for life insurance, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance.  All that is needed is the spouse's date of birth and full legal name.  A marriage certificate proves marriage so sometimes that is needed as well.  SSN is not necessary.

 

Joint leases and mortgages will likely not be possible with one spouse living abroad, but some have been able to do it.  Ask the landlord.  Again, by providing a marriage certificate, copy of the foreign spouse's passport, maybe with a power of attorney document could solve this.  Instead of a joint lease or mortgage, I added my husband as beneficiary on all of my retirement and investment accounts and included this documentation with the I-130 petition package.

 

Jointly filed IRS income taxes are possible with one spouse living abroad.  We filed as married jointly by including a W-7 (for an ITIN) and letter stating that my husband was a US resident for tax purposes for 2018.  Do more research on how to do this.  It is possible without a SSN.  Joint credit cards are also possible, we did this by adding my husband to my US credit card account.  All they needed was his name.

 

The bottom line is, the documents requested are possible to obtain with a little effort as we did most of this in our CR-1 process.

 

Good luck!

[SalishSea 18,077]

7 hours ago, Mohsin786 said:

I'm thinking of writing an email to the immigration officer through online system.

They will not give you information or take into account anything you have to say, as a third party.  She needs to be the one to interact with them about her own case.