ROC Evidence of Cohabitation as Paying Guests

[parami 2]

Hello VisaJourney Community,

 

We are filing our I-751 soon as the 90 days mark is coming up for our case.

 

A short context about our living situation:

 

After my spouse arrived to the US, we lived together in my parents’ house. This is the address we used in all of our previous forms with USCIS.
We briefly moved out in January of 2024 with a 6-month lease. Then, we moved back to our parents’ house after our lease ended, because we wanted to save money for a house together and wanted to spend some time together before they moved to a different state.

In January, they made the move and we had to make a quick decision. Thankfully, one of our family friends let us live with them as paying guests. We moved in February and are responsible for a portion of their rent and utilities. The utilities only have one person’s name on the account (my spouse’s) because that’s the only way we could set it up. Our bank statement, the car insurance, and other relevant documents have our current address.

 

So, as for the evidence of cohabitation, I can share about my time at my parents’ house and the lease agreement from our short rental.

My question is: how can we prove our cohabitation for the current address? We don’t have a rental agreement as we are paying guests. If we asked our family friend to write a letter, what could we ask him to include in it to prove our cohabitation?

 

Thank you,

parami

[Sukie 1,479]

Have the people you are staying with write an affidavit stating that you live with them, and what you pay, and how it contributes to your living situation.  That way you have a complete trail of cohabitation - parents, lease, parents, friends.

 

Best of luck!

 

Sukie in NY

[EatBulaga 420]

14 hours ago, parami said:

Hello VisaJourney Community,

 

We are filing our I-751 soon as the 90 days mark is coming up for our case.

 

A short context about our living situation:

 

After my spouse arrived to the US, we lived together in my parents’ house. This is the address we used in all of our previous forms with USCIS.
We briefly moved out in January of 2024 with a 6-month lease. Then, we moved back to our parents’ house after our lease ended, because we wanted to save money for a house together and wanted to spend some time together before they moved to a different state.

In January, they made the move and we had to make a quick decision. Thankfully, one of our family friends let us live with them as paying guests. We moved in February and are responsible for a portion of their rent and utilities. The utilities only have one person’s name on the account (my spouse’s) because that’s the only way we could set it up. Our bank statement, the car insurance, and other relevant documents have our current address.

 

So, as for the evidence of cohabitation, I can share about my time at my parents’ house and the lease agreement from our short rental.

My question is: how can we prove our cohabitation for the current address? We don’t have a rental agreement as we are paying guests. If we asked our family friend to write a letter, what could we ask him to include in it to prove our cohabitation?

 

Thank you,

parami

 

You can follow @Sukie advice to include affidavits in your I-751.

 

After moving each time, did you update with the AR-11 to USCIS?

https://www.uscis.gov/ar-11

You should have updated the drivers licenses/state IDs and statements with the updated addresses after each move.

 

I'm a big fan of using the I-751, Part 11, Additional Information, to explain unique situations and evidence like address history, etc.

You can also include copies of driver's licenses or state IDs with matching addresses or joint bank account(s)/credit cards with matching addresses, etc.

Edited Saturday at 09:46 PM by EatBulaga