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[Timona 4,208]

Yet I know someone who only sent the I-751 form and got approved. USCIS is unpredictable 🤣

[carmel34 3,650]

Just sent in a I-751 with supporting docs, total of 528 pages in a FedEx box.  Nearly half of that was a joint credit card with all statements from marriage until now (nearly three years).  We literally followed the I-751 instructions which say to show evidence of the relationship, "Submit copies of as many documents as you can to establish this fact, to demonstrate the circumstances of the relationship from the date of the marriage to the present date..."  Also joint lease, deed, will, living will, power of attorney, joint tax transcripts, beneficiary on retirement accounts, health insurance, dental, life, joint bank account statements, driver's licenses from two states showing same address, auto insurance, and much more.  Every situation is different, and we have a big age gap so we sent probably more than we needed to but I like peace of mind.  Good luck!

[Daisy.Chain 317]

We used a box...15 pounds, really clearly organized because I was afraid of ticking the people reading it off. However, VJ said to frontload and frontload we did. It was approved really fast, but I doubt it had anything to do with the amount of paper.

 

I think they look at it enough to approve it which could probably be done in 20 papers or in 15 lbs.

 

Edited May 26, 2021 by Daisy.Chain
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[USC4SPOUSE 506]

2 hours ago, Daisy.Chain said:

We used a box...15 pounds, really clearly organized because I was afraid of ticking the people reading it off. However, VJ said to frontload and frontload we did. It was approved really fast, but I doubt it had anything to do with the amount of paper.

 

I think they look at it enough to approve it which could probably be done in 20 papers or in 15 lbs.

 

@Daisy.Chain exactly what we did.  

[Timona 4,208]

2 hours ago, Daisy.Chain said:

We used a box...15 pounds, really clearly organized because I was afraid of ticking the people reading it off. However, VJ said to frontload and frontload we did. It was approved really fast, but I doubt it had anything to do with the amount of paper.

 

I think they look at it enough to approve it which could probably be done in 20 papers or in 15 lbs.

 

 

I feel bad for the person who had to lift that bulk. 🤣

Edited May 26, 2021 by Timona

[USC4SPOUSE 506]

2 hours ago, carmel34 said:

Just sent in a I-751 with supporting docs, total of 528 pages in a FedEx box.  Nearly half of that was a joint credit card with all statements from marriage until now (nearly three years).  We literally followed the I-751 instructions which say to show evidence of the relationship, "Submit copies of as many documents as you can to establish this fact, to demonstrate the circumstances of the relationship from the date of the marriage to the present date..."  Also joint lease, deed, will, living will, power of attorney, joint tax transcripts, beneficiary on retirement accounts, health insurance, dental, life, joint bank account statements, driver's licenses from two states showing same address, auto insurance, and much more.  Every situation is different, and we have a big age gap so we sent probably more than we needed to but I like peace of mind.  Good luck!

@carmel34 we have an age gap, too. So we sent everything we had and some more. 

[DiamondEyes490 126]

577 pages. Lawyer used a box to send it. 

[mindthegap 2,599]

First filing: fedex large box (17" x 12" x 3")

Second filing: Fedex padded envelope as only a couple of pieces of evidence included (adjudicator should have reviewed evidence from first filing when adjudicating but didn't at all.... 🙄)

Third one: Over 2500 pages (many printed double sided) and counting .... weight & pics to follow when finished. Suggest you buy shares in fedex..this is going to be an expensive box to send

[Becci391 340]

Everything we sent did fit in a USPS Priority Mail Express envelope.

Maybe 100 pages total. Could have been less.

 

Got approved without any issues.

[LirikVJUser 28]

1 minute ago, Becci391 said:

Everything we sent did fit in a USPS Priority Mail Express envelope.

Maybe 100 pages total. Could have been less.

 

Got approved without any issues.

that's cool! Did you guys include credit card/utility bills and bank statements? If so did you include pages for every month?

Edited May 26, 2021 by LirikBlaidd87

[Becci391 340]

Just now, LirikBlaidd87 said:

that's cool! Did you guys include credit card and bank statements? If so did you include every for every month?

We did. The bank statements of our joint checking account was actually 90% of the total amount of pages.🙈🤣

 

I think we did quarterly statements for both but I'm not sure.

We only have one joint American Express credit card account. Less than 10 pages total at that time.

 

It's not about how many pages you send it's about the quantity. Comingling accounts ( credit, bank, phone lines, memberships), same address ( unless one of the people works out of state).

 

We only sent 10 pictures I think.

[Daisy.Chain 317]

31 minutes ago, Becci391 said:

We did. The bank statements of our joint checking account was actually 90% of the total amount of pages.🙈🤣

 

I think we did quarterly statements for both but I'm not sure.

We only have one joint American Express credit card account. Less than 10 pages total at that time.

 

It's not about how many pages you send it's about the quantity. Comingling accounts ( credit, bank, phone lines, memberships), same address ( unless one of the people works out of state).

 

We only sent 10 pictures I think.

You mean "quality", not "quantity"

[Daisy.Chain 317]

4 hours ago, Timona said:

 

I feel bad for the person who had to lift that bulk. 🤣

Me too!!

 

And I shrunk the font on the chats down to size 6, did triple columns, front and back and we still had TONS. No way did anyone read everything. They just flipped through until they saw what they needed! 

[mc962 55]

I think ours was about 105 pages, with the bulk of that being quarterly statements from our joint bank account.

 

The rest was mostly some of the usual joint stuff: insurances, insurance and asset beneficiary, house deed + mortgage, vacation trip itineraries + passport stamps and some pictures.

 

In the case of the mortgage, which I think was 20-30 pages of mostly legal stuff that I figured they probably wouldn't read much of anyway, we decided to send a recent billing statement from the bank's bill pay which showed how much was left of the joint mortgage and that we were paying it. That was only a few pages instead.

[LirikVJUser 28]

On 5/26/2021 at 1:31 AM, Scandi said:

Our package was about 2" thick, fitted perfectly in a USPS Priority box. 

 

Thanks, I am considering using this box
Question I see that you taped the sender's and recipient's addresses

Did you just drop it by the clerk at the post office? Did they print another official shipping label?