I751 Packet

[RobertHopkins 3]

Hi everyone! Want to ask about preparing the packet.

 

1. Do I need a table of contents page?
2. I see some people are writing a cover letter is this necessary?

3. Planning on sending at least 20 to 30 photos. Let me know if that’s a lot. Do I need to include photos from the wedding or everything after the wedding up till present?

 

Apart from that, this is what I am including:

• Bank statements since Aug 23 because this is when she got her first job in the US. This also shows mortgage payments going out every month from transfers from our individual accounts. 
• Drivers Licenses with same address
• Home owner insurance with both names 
• Car insurance with both names 
• Shared Health insurance dental vision (some are from my employer, some from her employers)
• Utility bill with both names (GAS/Electric)
• Joint credit card with both names (the statement only shows my name so planning on sending a photocopy of the cards with same number)
• 1 Joint Tax return and one married filing separately because first one was when she not yet a green card holder
• Beneficiary documents from both of us where we have listed each other as beneficiaries on retirement accounts
• Pictures of bdays, family visits to in-laws where we had a belated anniversary party with both of our families, her family at our house, My family at her house in her country, Christmas pics with extended family etc.
• Flights together/Trips (will also have pics from some of these)
• EZPass account
• Triple AAA membership
• The check we are sending with the packet for payment is coming from our joint account with both of our names

I feel like we are at a point where we are stressing and overthinking this, but we’ve had such a bad experience, even getting the CR1. They had sent us a card with a typo and we had to go through the whole I-90 process and finally got the correct card but now it’s time to file this sigh

 

[OldUser 7,528]

1,2 - nice to have. Not a requirement. If you want to help adjudicator - why not

[RobertHopkins 3]

As for evidence list is this a good list?

[EatBulaga 363]

19 minutes ago, RobertHopkins said:

As for evidence list is this a good list?

You can combine table of contents with the cover letter, which is more for us than for USCIS since it is a good organizer. You can list all the evidence in order in the cover letter.

 

Your evidence list is good.

 

For the electric/gas bills, are you including every month, or every 2 months, or every 3 months, since when?

 

Same can be said for credit cards, health insurance, car insurance, etc. since when?

 

Pics with captions are good but not necessarily essential. I included our wedding pics with the the I-485, so our pics were in backwards chronological order back to after the wedding.

 

Stacking these evidence is why the I-751 is so thick for many of us. Mine was about 2 inches thick.

[OldUser 7,528]

35 minutes ago, RobertHopkins said:

As for evidence list is this a good list?

Do you have joint bank accounts? Why not contribute to joint account amounts to cover monthly bills and mortgage? Where do you receive tax refunds? I'd think joint account would be a great place for those.

 

Otherwise good evidence

[RobertHopkins 3]

Utility bills, health insurance, car insurance and joint bank accounts are all from the around the date when my wife got her Cr1 and entered US. Credit cards are from a few months ago. Statement only shows my name so was thinking of scanning the cards to show same credit card number.

 

 Joint account pays for mortgage every month in which we both contribute a certain amount every month.

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[EatBulaga 363]

1 minute ago, RobertHopkins said:

Utility bills, health insurance, car insurance and joint bank accounts are all from the actin around the date when my wife got her Cr1 and entered US. Credit cards are from a few months ago. Statement only shows my name so was thinking of scanning the cards to show same credit card number.

If the credit card account is in your name and your wife is just a cardholder, the credit card statements usually itemizes each cardholders purchases.

 

When you print the statements be sure to print setting "fit to printable area" so nothing is cropped out. And you include all the blank pages and commercials in the statements.

[RobertHopkins 3]

Unfortunately chase bank does not separate authorized user charges separately on the statement. Only shows primary user. That’s why I was thinking of photocopying the cards.

[OldUser 7,528]

4 minutes ago, RobertHopkins said:

Unfortunately chase bank does not separate authorized user charges separately on the statement. Only shows primary user. That’s why I was thinking of photocopying the cards.

That's a bummer!

 

Here's apparently list of banks and whether authorized user charges are itemized:

 

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/view-authorized-user-spending-credit-cards

[RobertHopkins 3]

Ah well can’t do anything about it now. We’re filing in 2 weeks. I just added my wife to chase because I’ve had that account for over 10 years