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Alexa DTG   0

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Hello, I’m planning to bring my husband to the U.S. I am a citizen and we’ve been married for less than 2 years. We got married 8 months ago but we have been together for almost 6 years. We live separately, he is from Peru and right now I’m living in the US. I’m concerned our case will not be taken seriously because the only bona fide marriage evidence we can provide right now are pictures from the wedding ceremony and reception, travel vouchers back from 2016, passport stamps, I have him as a beneficiary on my savings and credit card account, calls history, chats, pictures with our families, he has me as a co-owner of his car and a beneficiary on his credit card account. That’s about all the evidence we have now. 
Has someone gone through this situation before? If so, how did it work? 

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The very best evidence you can provide is that of time actually spent together.  Couples living in separate countries aren't expected to have a lot of shared property, joint bank accounts, etc.  

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10 hours ago, Alexa DTG said:

We got married 8 months ago but we have been together for almost 6 years.

 

How much time in total did you spend together in person, including time before getting married?  Focus on evidence showing that.  Best would be passport stamps, boarding passes, hotel receipts, and other documentary evidence with dates and places you were at together.  Support those with photos from across the years of your relationship, including photos of the two of you together with family and friends.

 

In our case, we submitted a whopping 12 pages of bona fide relationship evidence.  Twelve.  Our petition was approved, no RFE.  Like you, we live in different countries.  We did manage to spend several months together in person and most of our evidence showed that.  We have only 1 bill with both of our names.  My USC husband's banks and the HR at his work refused to add me to his accounts because I have no SSN.  You have a lot more evidence of financial commingling than we do.

 

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