I-751 October 2021 Filers

[elisabettacarli19 3]

14 hours ago, Greencard-22 said:

 

1. We didn’t number or write our names and A # on our attachments. On our cover letter, we listed everything that was sent and exactly how it was separated. We separated it with binder clips and paper clips. Did the same thing during AOS and it was fine. 
 

2. Everyone sends their application to the same Phoenix address. It just differs based on your shipping method. USPS vs UPS and FedEx. When it gets there, they then send it to the office for your area. 
 

3. We didn’t use N/A. We just left what didn’t apply to us blank. I know some people do and others don’t. Same thing during our AOS process. We left them blank. Mostly though, I was very nervous to put it in the wrong place. In another I-751 website forum, someone got their application rejected because they put N/A for middle name. And the computer thought the name was John N/A Doe. If you’re putting N/A, I think for names especially, you should leave it blank. 

4. A lot of people did use credit cards for their payment. As to some offices not accepting card payments, we were worried about that same thing. We didn’t know what our office would be and if they were accepting credit card payments. I think you’ll be fine with it. We did send a personal check from our joint account though.

 

5. As to the color pen, we used a black ink pen. Not sure about blue ink. But its pretty simple to use a black ink pen, if you’re worried about using a blue. 
 

Hope that helps. Good luck on your application! 

Thank you! Much appreciated!

[elisabettacarli19 3]

**Thank you all for the answers to my latest post** (In case I missed someone)

It's great to know there are other people out there going through these nerve-wracking immigration processes. 

 

I have another another question (more an opinion this time). Do you think this is sufficient proof of bona fide marriage? We don't have a joint checking account (only a credit one) and I am not showing up on our bills as the account of the energy provider does not allow to put two people on the same online account. 

 

• Copies of 2019 and 2020 tax returns and transcripts (filing jointly).
• Copies of our apartment rental agreements (3 rental agreements) with joint occupancy.
• Copies of health insurance cards with both names on.
• Copy of car insurance identification card with both names on.
• Copy of credit card statements (May 2020 and October 2021) of our joint account with both names on.
• Copy of bank statement from my checking account with transactions made to my husband (the US citizen) for share expenses outside of bills (for the past 18 months).
• Copy of phone account plan with both names on.
• Copies of flight reservation emails with both names on.
• Photographs from trips with relative captions on the back.
• Two affidavits of support from U.S. citizen friends attesting our relationship and marriage.

 

Thank you.

[Knome 245]

Finally compiled the list(of evidences)  we will be sending with our package :

we did a thorough research for this, I hope this will help others here as well.

Also please let me know if we are still missing anything here please

 

 

A.   Housing & Utilities

1.    Address A (2019 - 2020)

a)    Rental agreement

b)    Electric bills

c)    Driver License/ State Id showing previous address

d)    Costco Membership

2.    Address B (2020-2021)

a)    Rental agreement

b)    Electric bills

c)    Driver License/ State Id showing current address

c)    Xfinity Wifi account details

d)    Costco Membership

 

B.   Joint Tax Returns 2019-2020/child tax credit/covid relief

1.    IRS joint tax transcripts for  2019 and 2020.

2.    Child Tax credit issued/addressed to both Immigrant and US Citizen

3.    Covid relief fund issued to both Immigrant and US citizen 

 

C.   Financial/Insurance

1.    Joint account bank statements for various months from 2019 to  2021.

2.     Credit Card copy and document/statements showing Immigrant as an authorized user.

3.     2019 of US Citizen’s insurance (showing Immigrants as family members.)

4.     2020 & 2021 Immigrant’s insurance (showing US Citizen as family member.)

5.     Insurance cards

6.     Immigrants Benefit Summary showing Basic Life Insurance beneficiary : US Citizen Spouse    and kids.

7.     Insurance and title for Car

8. JCpenney credit card and document showing both Immigrant and US citizen spouse

 

D.   Other Documents showing Evidence of Life living together for US Citizen spouse’s kid and Permanent resident/Immigrant Wife’s kid .

1.   K 2 (step daughter's) School records showing address and Guardian details

2    K 2 (step daughter's Taekwondo class registration.

3.   Registration for After school Programmes

4.   School Records showing same address for K 2 (step daughter)

5.   Girls & Boys club registration for K 2 (step daughter) ( Bus and after school program)

 

 

E.   Affidavits ( affidavits from family)

 

1.   Affidavit from US citizen’s spouse’s Aunt.

2    Affidavit from US citizen’s spouse’s Uncle.

 

 

F.   Other Misc. Evidence showing proof of living together

 

1.    Assortment of mail addressed to US Citizen and immigrant wife. (Amazon and USPS mails)  

2.    Immigrants Wife’s updated Passport showing her updated last name and spouse as US citizen

3.    Whats app screen shots with Family group ( from 2019-2021)

4.    Anniversary and Birthday gift purchase order details and addressed to same addresses

5.    Email about home search with real estate agent addressed to both of us.

6.    Greeting cards for birthday anniversary and mothers day by family and friends

7.    Home Security emails for ring alarms addressed by both US citizen and Immigrant wife at same home addressed

8. Whatsapp screenshots created for Virtual birthday celebration for spouse’s 30th birthday (2020)

 

G.   Holiday/Festival/Anniversary trips and vacation Pictures and receipts

1.   Christmas Pictures with family and in laws (2019,2020) 

2.   Hindu Festival Diwali celebration Pictures with mother in law (2019,2020)

3.   Halloween Pictures (2019,2020)

4.   Arlington trip pictures with Bill/receipts and booking details (2019)

5.   Oregon Trip pictures with Bill/receipts and booking details(2019)

6.   Washington state fair pictures with receipts (2019)

7.    Seattle Pride Parade (2019)

8.    Hindu festival Holi Pictures (2020)

9.    Birthday pictures with family (2019,2020)

10.    Trip to Oregon Zoo pictures with Bill/receipts and booking details (2020)

11.    ANACORTES Whale watching pictures with Bill and booking details(2021)

12.   Trip to Sanfrancisco , Sacramento Zoo pictures with Bill and booking details (2021)

13.    Anniversary trip and hotel booking to Leavenworth, Zip lining tour pictures with Bill/receipts and booking details (2021)

[mangomochi 21]

Hey all,

 

Another October filer here! Filed on 10/20/21 and received NOA on 10/28/21. 

 

Good luck everyone!

[TastyCake 232]

I am not sure who maintains the gold copy of our spreadsheet but it's back to being totally blown out of the water again.  This seems to be a recurring problem and I am not sure who is absent-mindedly (or mischievously) blowing the data away.  Very frustrating.

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

2 minutes ago, TastyCake said:

I am not sure who maintains the gold copy of our spreadsheet but it's back to being totally blown out of the water again.  This seems to be a recurring problem and I am not sure who is absent-mindedly (or mischievously) blowing the data away.  Very frustrating.

It appears that someone is sabotaging our spreadsheet. I created it, to replace the previous, sabotaged one, and now it's happening to this one. I just restored it, so you should be able to see it now. 

[TastyCake 232]

6 minutes ago, Joyoussinger said:

It appears that someone is sabotaging our spreadsheet. I created it, to replace the previous, sabotaged one, and now it's happening to this one. I just restored it, so you should be able to see it now. 

Thanks, looks good.  Appreciate the work you do on this.  I hope if it's sabotage the individual(s) in question can get a life.  If someone is messing it up by accident I hope the individual(s) in question can take a good class in MS Excel.

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

1 minute ago, TastyCake said:

Thanks, looks good.  Appreciate the work you do on this.  I hope if it's sabotage the individual(s) in question can get a life.  If someone is messing it up by accident I hope the individual(s) in question can take a good class in MS Excel.

It would take a huge accident to delete every single thing like that! Lol!  Thanks for letting me know that it happened again.

[SoCal2021 201]

2 minutes ago, TastyCake said:

Thanks, looks good.  Appreciate the work you do on this.  I hope if it's sabotage the individual(s) in question can get a life.  If someone is messing it up by accident I hope the individual(s) in question can take a good class in MS Excel.

I agree. I hope this person grows up and move on to other things. 
Unfortunately it is not an accident. It is intentional. Thanks @Joyoussinger

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

2 hours ago, SoCal2021 said:

I agree. I hope this person grows up and move on to other things. 
Unfortunately it is not an accident. It is intentional. Thanks @Joyoussinger

Thanks to you, too, @SoCal2021

[AJCM 17]

Hello again fellow VJers. 751 time for us, as well, and we're Oct 2021 filers ahead of a Jan 22 expiry date for GC.

A bunch of things came up in life all at once, so I had to whip the whole package together in a couple hours. I actually completed the PDF app once before, but forgot to save it to the cloud (going back and forth due to ongoing move).

In our "conditional" time together, we've welcomed a baby and just now moving to a different state (I actually waited a couple days into the 90d period to file, in order to avoid the hassle of change addresses later).

 

Pkg:

- joint bank account statements (didn't print all banks, just chose a couple main ones, and only the last two months)

- joint investment accounts (again just chose a couple main institutions)

- joint auto title and home purchase/tax docs

- baby birth cert and birth letter (photocopies)

- photos (not a lot to see, since we didn't travel anywhere. Just some casuals of pregnancy progress and with family/friends during pandemic)

 

Mailed USPS 10/20/2021

Check cashed/posted to account 10/27 (nope on the credit card, now and forever on paper applications. Too many numbers/possibilities to typo imo)

 

Lessons learned and stuff omitted since the 485... less neurotic about having every little detail stuffed in. Also no joint tax returns because I honestly just forgot about it. No travel evidence, either, even though I had fully paid bookings for our second honeymoon slated for early '20 that never happened due to the pandemic. No affidavits this time because we repeatedly heard they were the weakest evidence + I just felt too awkward about imposing this on friends. Organized it into a couple sleeves, but didn't make an entire bound presentation like last time. 

[Greencard-22 43]

21 hours ago, Joyoussinger said:

It appears that someone is sabotaging our spreadsheet. I created it, to replace the previous, sabotaged one, and now it's happening to this one. I just restored it, so you should be able to see it now. 

Is there anyway you can see who that person is? Who did what? It’s so damn inconsiderate. That’s person is a serious  a-hole

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

7 minutes ago, Greencard-22 said:

Is there anyway you can see who that person is? Who did what? It’s so damn inconsiderate. That’s person is a serious  a-hole

I agree! Anyone using the spreadsheet just appears as "anonymous".

[SoCal2021 201]

2 hours ago, Joyoussinger said:

I agree! Anyone using the spreadsheet just appears as "anonymous".

I am researching to see if can find a way to flag this loser down.  It is indeed unfortunate what they are doing. 

Edited October 30, 2021 by SoCal2021

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

25 minutes ago, SoCal2021 said:

I am researching to see if can find a way to flag this loser down.  It is indeed unfortunate what they are doing. 

It would be great to be find out who's doing it. It's so childish.