Worried that we might not have enough evidence for I-751

[clang890 4]

We're about to file the I-751 and as we're doing the cover letter, we realized that we might not have enough evidence due to our living situation. We live with our parents/in-laws since my wife came to the US with K1 Visa. We don't have any mortgage bills, no car ownership, no utility bills, no insurance, no membership together, prepaid individual cellphones plans (MVNO).

 

Here's what we got so far as evidence checklist.

 

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1. Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, with a check for filing fee of $680 attached
2. Copy of Permanent resident card, front and back
3. Evidence of our bona fide marriage for the previous 2 years [including but not limited to the examples listed below]

a. Copies of Jointly Filed Tax Return IRS Transcripts filed during the past two years (2020 & 2021)

b.    Copies of our recent bank statements from our Joint Bank Account

c.     Copies of Mail sent to the marital residence to either spouse individually

d.    Two (2) sworn affidavits of bona fide marriage by U.S. permanent resident family members attesting to our relationship and marriage

e.    Copies of our photographs from recent trips in the past two years

f.      Copies of our photographs with parents/in-laws and celebrating Hinduism festivals together

g.    Copy of Itinerary and/or Plane tickets for trips taken together in the past two years

 

Are those enough or am I missing anything else that could be added given our situation?

[Family 3,988]

You are missing . here’s a few suggestions and use the minimum 3or 4 per year of any statements/ invoices below:

DMV DL for both,

anything on cars ( registration , title,insurance,  repairs )

paystubs for both you  

cell phone statements 

health insurance ( past visits invoices, prescriptions etc);

credit card statements ( joint or solo they show same address);

Letter from parents stating you pay no rent or utilities, add a few statements of utilities in parents names

IF you have AAA card, Costco, gym 

Healthcare Directive Power of Attorney ( Google and DIY ) and statement that you have not prepared an Will or Trust yet.

If u have a pet , add vet bill 

 

 

 

[clang890 4]

1 minute ago, Family said:

You are missing . here’s a few suggestions and use the minimum 3or 4 per year of any statements/ invoices below:

DMV DL for both, - Can include this

anything on cars ( registration , title,insurance,  repairs ) - We both don't own cars, belongs to parents. I work from home and drop my wife (conditional resident) to work

paystubs for both you  - Can include this but isn't the tax return transcript enough?

cell phone statements - We can provide this but we have individual prepaid cellphones plans (MVNOs they're called)

health insurance ( past visits invoices, prescriptions etc); - Both of don't have health insurance or gone to hospital or any prescriptions

credit card statements ( joint or solo they show same address); - We have a joint debit card with checking account which we're planning to include but no credits cards together

Letter from parents stating you pay no rent or utilities, add a few statements of utilities in parents names - One of the sworn affidavit of marriage support will come from parents and will state this. We can also add mortgage and utilities statements

IF you have AAA card, Costco, gym - I have a AAA card shared with my father but my wife doesn't since one card would be enough for us. No Costco or gym memberships

Healthcare Directive Power of Attorney ( Google and DIY ) and statement that you have not prepared an Will or Trust yet. - First time hearing this, not sure how it helps. Didn't see it any of the cover letter examples so far

If u have a pet , add vet bill - No pets

 

 

 

Thank you for your suggestions, I put a comment to each of your suggestions in red text

[Family 3,988]

Think of it this way, provide a paper trail or explanation of ALL that YOUR Joint life looks for the 2 years since LPR .

This means even if you don’t have traditional cell phone plan payment from which goes from an account and you prefer to make cash payment at local branch …then you explain and show what YOUR life looks like. 

Therefore, if you don’t own cars..but drive parents car…you show exactly what’s in the dashboard ( ins registration in parents names and a short one line description exactly as you stated in ur response…and explain if u or parents pay the insurance 

 

From your answer I cannot tell if there are Solo Credit account ( ur name only ) or u have a card from parents to use..ADD a description of never having credit cards for example ( Ps they run credit reports and see usage anyway) or as I said include statements for solo credit accounts for the 2 years.

If AAA card is your name only and on parent plan , just include it w short description.

 

The Health Directive and statement that you have not set up a will/ trust is because USCIS RFEs always include such..so you anticipate by saying “ We have not set up such “:

 

Idea being that if you cover ALL basis of your daily life, expenses then you have high chances of getting approved without and RFE and even without an interview. 
 

[Crazy Cat 41,850]

3 hours ago, Family said:

You are missing . here’s a few suggestions and use the minimum 3or 4 per year of any statements/ invoices below:

DMV DL for both,

anything on cars ( registration , title,insurance,  repairs )

paystubs for both you  

cell phone statements 

health insurance ( past visits invoices, prescriptions etc);

credit card statements ( joint or solo they show same address);

Letter from parents stating you pay no rent or utilities, add a few statements of utilities in parents names

IF you have AAA card, Costco, gym 

Healthcare Directive Power of Attorney ( Google and DIY ) and statement that you have not prepared an Will or Trust yet.

If u have a pet , add vet bill 

 

 

 

Agree.  Op is a little light on evidence.  Property deed and/or rental lease would be nice. Nice job, @Family

[Soup Dragon 104]

We included copies of wills and living wills.  Do you have either of those?

 

We also included an affidavit from my husband's parents stating that we lived with them for a while, purely to fill in a date gap as we were between military stations at the time.  

 

Hope this helps!

[Rocio0010 5,579]

21 hours ago, clang890 said:

Thank you for your suggestions, I put a comment to each of your suggestions in red text

 

21 hours ago, clang890 said:

We both don't own cars, belongs to parents. I work from home and drop my wife (conditional resident) to work

If both you have DL, then you might just as well add her to the insurance. After all, you never know if she’ll need to drive in an emergency.

 

21 hours ago, clang890 said:

Can include this but isn't the tax return transcript enough?

It wouldn’t hurt to include them, since you’re lacking evidence.

 

21 hours ago, clang890 said:

We have a joint debit card with checking account which we're planning to include but no credits cards together

Make sure to include ALL statements. 

 

21 hours ago, clang890 said:

First time hearing this, not sure how it helps. Didn't

A Power of Attorney gives permission to the spouse to make decisions for you in case you can’t. Very helpful.

[beloved_dingo 1,976]

On 8/6/2022 at 3:58 PM, clang890 said:

We're about to file the I-751 and as we're doing the cover letter, we realized that we might not have enough evidence due to our living situation. We live with our parents/in-laws since my wife came to the US with K1 Visa. We don't have any mortgage bills, no car ownership, no utility bills, no insurance, no membership together, prepaid individual cellphones plans (MVNO).

 

Here's what we got so far as evidence checklist.

 

 

Are those enough or am I missing anything else that could be added given our situation?

Copies of our recent bank statements from our Joint Bank Account - don't just send recent statements. Since you are light on other evidence, send every single statement from the date of marriage (or date spouse was added to account, if it was after the date of marriage).

 

As others have said, you need for USCIS to see how you and your spouse are living your married life, and that will be different from others. Adding brief explanations for certain things, like about the car situation, living with parents, etc. fills in the gaps so that USCIS understands.

 

Also I second doing a Health POA and/or living will. It's good to have anyway but is easy to draw one up from templates online and have notarized. We included ours with AOS and again with ROC. 

 

Other suggestions:

- Emergency contact documentation (from work - assuming you both have each other listed)

- If either of you have a credit card, add the other as authorized user and send the documentation

- Do you have a savings account or any retirement accounts? If so, send beneficiary designation info. 

- Go to the library and both sign up for library cards. Then print out documentation showing that both of your library memberships show the same address