I-751 and N-400 interview

[red12345 25]

Hi everyone, My interview is March 7th for my N-400 but my I-751 os still pending. This is all the evidence I’m brining to the interview, and I was wondering what evidence should I put first to last? I have,

3 years of tax returns transcripts failing jointly. 
3 years of our bank statements. 
Credit cards showing me as an authorized user. 
Our  homeowner insurance bills with both our names and address.
Our  homeowner insurance declarations with both our names and address.
Car insurance bills with our names and address. 
our drivers licenses both have the same address. 
My new passport showing our address.
Credit card statement on my name when we changed the tiers for our car and showing that I paid for it from our joint account. 
Teachers retirement policy showing me as a beneficiary. 
Life Insurance policy showing me as a beneficiary. 
my spouse’s health insurance and dental insurance showing both our names and  showing me as dependent. 
All bookings of our trips together. 
our T-mobile phone plan showing both our names and Im an authorized user. 
our car insurance card showing our names. 
our electric and gas bills showing both our names and address. 
Mail and cards from friends and family showing both our names and address. 
our dog and cats adoptions paperwork. 
Our facebook posts and showing that we’re married since 2019. 
I printed showing that we have each other emergency contacts on gym, phone, work, ect..
and I printed several pictures of us on trips, with families and friends in several occasions. 

please let me know if I should add anything else FYI The house and mortgage is on my wife’s name because she bought it before we were married. Thank you!

Edited February 25 by red12345

[Crazy Cat 41,842]

Your evidence looks good.  Having personally been through a combo interview, I can tell you what our officer wanted to see.  He specifically wanted to see our driver's licenses, apartment leases, and bank statements.....in order to see a paper trail of evidence since the date of the initial I-751 filing (44 months earlier).  He also wanted to see wife's ADIT stamp she got after our extension letter expired.   He asked us both a couple questions, then said you are certainly qualified for approval of the I-751.  Then wife stay in his office and took the citizenship test.  I also had all our tax transcripts ready, but I had already uploaded them with wife's N-400 application.  

By the time we got home, 45 minutes later, her N-400 case status had already changed to "Oath ceremony will be scheduled"......Next day, the I-751 status changed to "Case Approved". 

Edited February 25 by Crazy Cat

[Crazy Cat 41,842]

Oh yes, wife took the oath 6 weeks later. 

[red12345 25]

4 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

Your evidence looks good.  Having personally been through a combo interview, I can tell you what our officer wanted to see.  He specifically wanted to see our driver's licenses, apartment leases, and bank statements.....in order to see a paper trail of evidence since the date of the initial I-751 filing (44 months earlier).  He also wanted to see wife's ADIT stamp she got after our extension letter expired.   He asked us both a couple questions, then said you are certainly qualified for approval of the I-751.  Then wife stay in his office and took the citizenship test.  I also had all our tax transcripts ready, but I had already uploaded them with wife's N-400 application.  

By the time we got home, 45 minutes later, her N-400 case status had already changed to "Oath ceremony will be scheduled"......Next day, the I-751 status changed to "Case Approved". 

That's awesome! Congrats.

what questions did the IO ask? If they ask about the house/mortgage should I say that she bought it before we meet or married? and will that be an issue? and should I print out my the money transfer when I sent it from my business account to our joint account?

[red12345 25]

5 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

Oh yes, wife took the oath 6 weeks later. 

I'm doing a name change I hope it wont take longer for my oath.

[Crazy Cat 41,842]

1 minute ago, red12345 said:

That's awesome! Congrats.

what questions did the IO ask? If they ask about the house/mortgage should I say that she bought it before we meet or married? and will that be an issue? and should I print out my the money transfer when I sent it from my business account to our joint account?

I think he asked where we met and married.  I don't see an issue. I think you'll be fine.

[Pinkrlion 2,716]

They want to updated evidence since date you filed I-751. 
 

FYI. If your interview letter does not mention I-751, it is not a combo interview. Make sure your spouse comes. You can ask if you can be interviewed the same day. It depends on IO. If they do it after you finish 400 or they will have you wait in the lobby and talk to supervisor to approve it. 

[red12345 25]

2 minutes ago, Pinkrlion said:

They want to updated evidence since date you filed I-751. 
 

FYI. If your interview letter does not mention I-751, it is not a combo interview. Make sure your spouse comes. You can ask if you can be interviewed the same day. It depends on IO. If they do it after you finish 400 or they will have you wait in the lobby and talk to supervisor to approve it. 

Sounds good! Thank you. 

[Crazy Cat 41,842]

1 hour ago, Pinkrlion said:

FYI. If your interview letter does not mention I-751, it is not a combo interview.

Wife's letter didn't mention it.  Our local office emailed us exactly 2 days prior to wife's N-400 interview to inform us it would be a combo.  But, I had been preparing for it all along....would have been nice to know sooner..LOL

Edited February 26 by Crazy Cat

[red12345 25]

3 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

I think he asked where we met and married.  I don't see an issue. I think you'll be fine.

Yeah I think it be fine too. I have another question, should I label any documents besides our pictures? And if you have any advice on how to put documents together to easily find the document the IO is asking for?

Edited February 26 by red12345

[OldUser 6,636]

2 minutes ago, red12345 said:

Yeah I think it be fine too. I have another question, should I label any documents besides our pictures?

No

[red12345 25]

Just now, OldUser said:

No

And if you have any advice on how to put documents together to easily find the document the IO is asking for?

[OldUser 6,636]

1 hour ago, Pinkrlion said:

FYI. If your interview letter does not mention I-751, it is not a combo interview. 

VJ and data points outside suggest many times you end up getting combo even of letter doesn't mention it.

 

1 hour ago, Pinkrlion said:

Make sure your spouse comes. You can ask if you can be interviewed the same day. It depends on IO. If they do it after you finish 400 or they will have you wait in the lobby and talk to supervisor to approve it. 

Agree with these points. Sometimes I-751 cannot be conducted officially if docs are not in the office though.

[red12345 25]

3 minutes ago, OldUser said:

VJ and data points outside suggest many times you end up getting combo even of letter doesn't mention it.

 

Agree with these points. Sometimes I-751 cannot be conducted officially if docs are not in the office though.

If I brought the Docs that I sent for the I-751 will they still not do the combo interview?

[OldUser 6,636]

1 minute ago, red12345 said:

And if you have any advice on how to put documents together to easily find the document the IO is asking for?

My personal choice is not to use sheet protectors or similar. There's nothing more annoying to some IOs than people trying to get docs out of plastic bags. Adds time and noise.

 

You can use some paper holders of different colors to groups various docs? Green for financial comingling, yellow for tax returns etc? That's how I would do it. In my AOS interview I had a lawyer who pretty much handed papers to IO as they requested it 😅 Before the interview I gave attorney the papers and he organized them however he used to.