daigo1

Thank you. Yes, we're aware but the plan was that once we combine our finances, and I get out of NYC, we will be able to afford health insurance since we'll be living together with cheaper rent, utility bills, food, etc. and whatnot since everything will be cheaper combined.

Oh, thank you. Didn't know that was a thing; I will look into it. Actually, we were both considering moving finding respective apartments closer to the Quebec/upstate NY/Vermont border just so that we could just see each other every day in person if we're only like 1-hour drive from each other and then we could take a montage of photos every day like a daily time lapse for our photo album but it would also probably make a strong case for the immigration papers if we're seeing each other in person every single day as well. My wife has TD Bank so as suggested by a previous poster, she's looking into adding me to her bank account which seems like good news. Neither of our employers offers benefits and I don't have health insurance because it's too expensive. I guess I might as well relocate closer to her and get a new job that offers benefits while I'm at it. I think it might be an idea to look into a cheap house we can both purchase as a placeholder home so that at least we can both have our names on the deed/title (we have an idea of our dream home but it will take like 10+ years to save up for the down payment at our current incomes). Thank you for the suggestions. Just feels really annoying to jump through all these hoops just because we were born in different countries

Did you use a national bank and if so, which one? I'm with a local credit union and they won't allow me to add my wife so I'm willing to change banks if there is a more foreign-friendly one

Any ideas other than the will? I'm not sure how to come up with travel documents if we drive to each other and we stay at each others' apartments whenever we visit. We are willing to record and submit videos detailing how we spend each day together via webcam but they do not accept video formats nor do I think they have the time to comb through thousands of hours worth of footage of just us talking about nonsense all day.

My wife (residing in Quebec) plans to apply for the CR-1 visa so I recently filed the I-130 petition online via myUSCIS and they sent a Receipt Notice document to my account the same day. Since this is the first time she is applying for a visa and my first time petitioning for anyone, I was under the impression that if I just follow the directions, it's a pretty straightfoward process, but reading some stories on this forum after the fact about couples that have been married for over a decade with children and still receiving RFEs for bona fide marriage when they sent their I-130, I'm a little concerned that we haven't sent enough evidence now. We have been married for under a year (both of us aged in our late 20s) and still live apart obviously, so the only things we really have are photos. We both WFH so we're mostly on video calls with each other ~12+ hours every day so I'm not sure how to send evidence of that since we don't usually chat or exchange text correspondence and just talk over video. We visit each other infrequently for a few days at a time since we both don't have a high income (I make ~$50k USD/year gross and her around $55k CAD/year gross) and have limited PTO from our jobs, but on occasion she will drive down here over the weekend to surprise me (~6 hour drive one-way). I mostly uploaded our wedding photos and photos of some activities we did while together in person, along with invoices from the jeweler for both our wedding rings showing that we split the billing cost (in the thousands of USD) between us, so I'm not sure what else I can provide in the event where I receive an RFE.