I751 bank statements question

[IsabelleFredrick 6]

I'm prepping my package. 

Is it necessary to have 2 years worth of shared bank acct statements?? Seems a bit much.

 

[AffableAndy 107]

Some people send quarterly statements.

 

I sent in all our statements from our AoS interview till the I-751 filing month. It was a LOT of paper.

 

I believe the instructions actually say to send evidence from the beginning of the marriage to the date of filing.

[Mike E 11,739]

29 minutes ago, IsabelleFredrick said:

I'm prepping my package. 

Is it necessary to have 2 years worth of shared bank acct statements?? Seems a bit much.

 

4 statements per year is plenty 

 

[Timona 4,207]

Quarterly. I di d that. I had no issues.

 

[SuznAaron 121]

1 hour ago, IsabelleFredrick said:

I'm prepping my package. 

Is it necessary to have 2 years worth of shared bank acct statements?? Seems a bit much.

 

We are doing quarterly on all bills and bank statements from date of wedding until now. 

[beloved_dingo 1,976]

3 hours ago, IsabelleFredrick said:

I'm prepping my package. 

Is it necessary to have 2 years worth of shared bank acct statements?? Seems a bit much.

 

It's really a preference. If you have a lot of other strong evidence, quarterly statements would likely be plenty. We sent all of the statements but that was really just for peace of mind. It was a lot of paper. 

[Rocio0010 5,579]

22 hours ago, Timona said:

Quarterly. I di d that. I had no issues.

 

Thank you, @Timona! I'm preparing my package for February and I'm debating whether to send all of them or not! It just seems such a waste of paper for something that, most likely, they are not going to read! How many per quarter did you include? 1 or 2?

[Timona 4,207]

58 minutes ago, ra0010 said:

Thank you, @Timona! I'm preparing my package for February and I'm debating whether to send all of them or not! It just seems such a waste of paper for something that, most likely, they are not going to read! How many per quarter did you include? 1 or 2?

 

Only did 1 per quarter. 4 in total for the whole year.

[Rocio0010 5,579]

Just now, Timona said:

 

Only did 1 per quarter. 4 in total for the whole year.

That saves a lot of paper!  Also, we do have three joint bank accounts but we use one for the "joint stuff" and the other two are just basically each of us adding the other person to the account. I really feel like sending statements from three accounts would be an overkill!

[Mike E 11,739]

18 minutes ago, ra0010 said:

That saves a lot of paper!  Also, we do have three joint bank accounts but we use one for the "joint stuff" and the other two are just basically each of us adding the other person to the account. I really feel like sending statements from three accounts would be an overkill!

I agree that 2 of 3 accounts in your case are over kill.  Someone mentioned that long petitions get long adjudications.  

[Timona 4,207]

20 minutes ago, ra0010 said:

That saves a lot of paper!  Also, we do have three joint bank accounts but we use one for the "joint stuff" and the other two are just basically each of us adding the other person to the account. I really feel like sending statements from three accounts would be an overkill!

 

Just do 1...we had 2 joint accounts. I just sent the one with least paperwork, which during N400 happened to be checking account. 

 

During ROC, I sent CC statements as they were the least paperwork. 

[Rocio0010 5,579]

Just now, Mike E said:

I agree that 2 of 3 accounts in your case are over kill.  Someone mentioned that long petitions get long adjudications.  

That is what I was afraid of! Plus, we don't really use our personal accounts for joint things. We just added each other during AOS and then it just remained like that. I guess we could save those in case we get RFE (knock on wood!)