Okay, I (US citizen) am getting married to my girlfriend. Known each other for the past 5 years. 4 years cohabitation and slightly over 3 years of dating.
I have already decided to include:
2 years of joint bank statements showing direct deposit of our salaries (~48 pages, two per month)
Rental receipts of the past year (12 pages)
Affidavits from my parents, my cousin (her best friend), her brother, and our friends (5 pages)
I need advice on whether to include any of the following, listed in descending order based on an educated guess of what I think is important:
Joint lease agreement (~10 pages + addendums)
More rental receipts stretching back farther (~48 pages)
My credit card statements with her as an authorized user (~2 years worth) (~48 pages)
Her name on my notarized Advanced Directive, signed ~1 year ago (~7 pages)
Proof my dad took out a loan and paid her university tuition when her parents cut her off for dating me (~2 pages)
Pics (too many to count)
4 sets of hotel, travel records when we went on vacation together (~8-10 pages)
Train reservations of routine visits to my parents (~20 pages)
Receipts of our birthday gifts to each other (~10 pages)
Finally, if one has anything to say regarding potential red flags, I'd appreciate it. My potential worries include:
my history with her parents. I still have not met her parents because they remain opposed to our relationship
she is Indian, which is probably amongst the most nationality by USCIS
she is a semi-observant Muslim, another category of people who are not exactly favorably looked on by certain people
the fact she is a Muslim also relates to the fact that for sometime, time her parents paid her rent, she hid from her parents the fact she was living with people of the opposite gender
Her being a Muslim also plays into how we first started dating: one night we were watching a movie (I know... so cliche) and decided to uhm… do some stuff and we continue to do stuff obviously, so definitely not halal
If we get a RFE, which I fear is a possibility, we have tons of more evidence we can present. But I'd like to not have that happen.
Thank you for your time in reading this lengthy post.
Tl;dr worried about our unconventional relationship but have evidence in the form joint bank statements, rental receipts, affidavits, and more to show the relationship is genuine. Is it enough?
