Small Rant, advice welcomed. I751 ROC

[dwheels76 5,468]

16 hours ago, lcfreshful said:

I was a little hesitant about that since they squabbled about NOT sending prior evidence, but I'll have to resend the Lease agreements with a cover letter explaining things anyway. 

 

Thanks, boss.

We had same issue with lease since I couldn't add my husband as leasee since he had no job and no credit to check. and the officer at our combo review had issue him listed as "Occupant". So I had the property manager write up a letter on their letterhead explaining their policy and why he wasn't listed.

We never had to use it cuz 3 weeks later COVID happened and 6 weeks after interview we were approved without the N=14 letter to ask for more evidence. but we did all she mentioned.

 

[lcfreshful 8]

5 hours ago, jan22 said:

You said you're just now getting some of the material you plan to send.  I am assuming that means it will be dated after 2019.  Since you mentioned the officer questioned why your evidence did not cover the entire period of your marriage, in addition to the new material, I would really focus on the 2017 to 2019 period, explaining the lease, the finances, etc., as others have said.  But I would also do my best to find something concrete that you could submit from that period.  

 

For example, during these years:

• Did she get a birthday card or letter in the mail that she kept (with the envelope showing your address)? 
• Did she take a class or anything that she had to register for that she might have a copy of that shows your address? 
• How about an Amazon account where she ordered something in her name that was shipped to your address? 
• Any family or friend that she sent a card or letter to that they might have saved (again, along with the envelope) that you could get from them in time to include in the RFE response?
• Any e-mail or chat room message she might have sent to somebody giving them her new address that she might still have in a "Sent" folder or access to a copy of? 
• Or one discussing her new apartment/house and what she was doing to settle into your shared space (redecorating, how your emptied clost space for her -- any little thing that shows you were together from the start).

 

By "your" address, I mean your shared address, of course.  

 

Good luck!  I'm sure it will all work out for you.

I thought of that too. I'll look around for anything from the 2017 - 2019 period of mail; however, there's not much. I was banking on the idea of gathering all of our lease agreements, (showing consistency of renewal) then writing a thorough explanation and reassuring that we've literally been living together the entire time. 

[lcfreshful 8]

4 hours ago, ra0010 said:

Alternatively, you could make it more official by going to the bank and adding her as an authorized user. My husband and I have a joint account, but we are also authorized users in our individual accounts. 
 

So, to summarize, here’s a list of what you could send:

- a copy of the lease, with the letter explaining the lease situation.

- joint utility bills.

- joint bank account statements.

- if bills are on different names, you could still send them because they show proof of shared residence.

- Joint memberships, if you have any (Sams Club, PF, etc)

- If you have ever listed her as an emergency contact, be my guest and include that too.

- Joint Health insurance, IRAs.

- hopefully she’ll pass the driving test. If so, she’s going to get a temporary permit. You can add her to the insurance with that, it’s very simple and quick and she should be listed in the insurance right after you call them.

Good luck!

Thanks. 

 

We're going to explain the lease as we send the consecutive year renewals.

 

The only actual utility bill we pay is electric (blessed), and I had her added. We have to wait until the next billing cycle before it comes in the mail though. 

 

Suki mentioned that I should resend the joint account, but also show the acc info of how we both are transferring money into said account, and explain to them how we work our money together/and have access to each other's account.

 

Tbh, I could've sworn I sent then information about her being my emergency contact as well as info of her being on my health insurance. Another user mentioned that they sometimes lose things, so I'll resend it again.

 

We don't have joint memberships, sadly.

 

She already has her driving permit which is acceptable according to what the Rfe said, long as it matches the address on my License as well.

 

Lastly, we have info of our renters insurance as well as life insurance policies coming in the mail. 

 

With all this stuff, I hope even the scrutiny of the most thorough officer in the building can be pacified.

[PWB 213]

OMG my head hurts after reading this.  There has got to be a better way to conduct business.  We thought getting out of Manila and still being half sane with a little money left was acceptable. Wow this AOS is just as crazy as the 129-F stuff.  We finally got the blood work, x-rays and Cat scan back and our pulmonologist  confirming that my wife never had T.B. as claimed three times by St.Lukes. All that sputum testing, delays and money loss should not have happened. Best of luck to you folks, our only choice is to hang in there.

[lcfreshful 8]

1 hour ago, PWB said:

OMG my head hurts after reading this.  There has got to be a better way to conduct business.  We thought getting out of Manila and still being half sane with a little money left was acceptable. Wow this AOS is just as crazy as the 129-F stuff.  We finally got the blood work, x-rays and Cat scan back and our pulmonologist  confirming that my wife never had T.B. as claimed three times by St.Lukes. All that sputum testing, delays and money loss should not have happened. Best of luck to you folks, our only choice is to hang in there.

I swear they just make it difficult for people just because they can. 

 

Best of luck to you, friend.

[Rocio0010 5,579]

4 hours ago, lcfreshful said:

Tbh, I could've sworn I sent then information about her being my emergency contact as well as info of her being on my health insurance

Rule of thumb: always, ALWAYS keep a copy of what you send. I still keep my initial AOS packages and notices and will do so until I become a citizen. You never know.

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

4 hours ago, lcfreshful said:

Another user mentioned that they sometimes lose things, so I'll resend it again.

 

To know if they actually lost some documents, read your RFE. It should include a detailed list of the things they already have.

 

And for each thing they advice you to send that you don't have, give an explanation on the letter you'll include in your package.

 

[lcfreshful 8]

2 hours ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

To know if they actually lost some documents, read your RFE. It should include a detailed list of the things they already have.

 

And for each thing they advice you to send that you don't have, give an explanation on the letter you'll include in your package.

 

I read it. Seems like they lost the emergency contact sheet that has her listed. I'll definitely will be sending that again.

[lcfreshful 8]

2 hours ago, ra0010 said:

Rule of thumb: always, ALWAYS keep a copy of what you send. I still keep my initial AOS packages and notices and will do so until I become a citizen. You never know.

You're right. Can't be too careful with this stuff. Especially with how they like to build hurdles every chance they get.

[Rocio0010 5,579]

8 hours ago, lcfreshful said:

You're right. Can't be too careful with this stuff. Especially with how they like to build hurdles every chance they get.

I usually go overboard, granted. For my AOS I kept a physical copy of absolutely everything: my original package, their notices, their RFE, my response to the RFE, and the evidence we were going to take to the interview. My ROC is coming next January, and I plan on keeping both a physical and a digital copy of everything. That’s an overkill, but it means peace of mind to me.

[JenD 180]

I just sent back a big packet in response to an i751 RFE, and we basically sent back everything they said *could* be used as evidence. I sent a letter explaining why my husband is not on the lease, (the landlord wanted to raise the rent), including correspondence between me and my landlord, send all the financial documents we could (with all the pages, e.g. previously we sent tax return transcripts which they said wasn't good enough, so I sent 300+ pages of three years of tax returns, with schedules and attachments -- which is what they asked for), sent 6 affidavits, wrote up our wills and advanced health care directives and sent those. I had previously sent joint health insurance when he as a dependent on my insurance. That's now changed and I'm a dependent on his insurance, so we sent new documentation showing that.  We sent travel documents, utility bills, phone bills, etc.