Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Your opinion on evidence for I797E	Thanks for reassuring me! Statement from the bank is a good idea; I called them last night and they said I added him in November 06, so it's good I was on top of that at least. I don't keep a ton of mail but I think I have statements addressed to him from the management company that is renting his flat back in England, and medical bills addressed to me, that span the whole 2.5 years. I sent them 3 pieces of mail in each our our names in the original app, but I guess it didn't show a big enough span of time. They did ask for drivers licenses, so we'll do that. I already sent all the other stuff you mentioned with our I 751; joint tax returns, photos, plane tickets. Not sure if I sent W2s or pay stubs; I'll check. We have friends over tonight; I'll see if I can get an affidavit out of one of them. Our whole process has gone like a dream so far; this is the first time we've had any trouble, so it's kind of scary. But the above sounds like a lot more evidence, so hopefully all will be well. QUOTE (ELW @ Jun 17 2009, 12:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You have some good ideas there! Try to also get a few Affidavits from friends and relatives who know you are married, stating how long they have known you and how often they say you together. Definitely get a statement from the condo front office, stating how much they see you and how they know you are living together (with official seal or on condo letterhead). Send in the joint checking account statements definitely. Try to get a statement from your bank stating how long you have had the account. Send in statements of cell phone bills. Do you have any common insurance plans, retirement stating the other as beneficiary or health benefits? Gather up post that is in each of your names, with date stamp, and send it in showing how you have the same address. Make copies of your ID/driving licenses if they show the same address. Send in joint tax returns; also W2s and pay stubs if they show the same address. Have any photos with you together with family, vacations together or plane/bus/train tickets with both your names on them? Send those in too! Be creative! There isn't enough time to get your husband on the condo bill or credit cards, so don't bother right now. All the above should get you through this OK! Good Luck!	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-17 08:30:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Your opinion on evidence for I797E	So I got an RFE after submitting our I-751. One of the evidences they requested was: RESIDENCE: In order to establish eligibility for removal of your conditional status, you must submit evidence of your communal residence for the past two years. Such evidence may include but is not limited to: - Copies of rental leases or rental agreements (don't have; I own a condo with a friend of mine) - Copies of utility bills such as telephone, gas, electric, water, cable etc. or other statements issued in both your names indicating your residential address. (Don't have any except cable bill, and I just have my name on the cable bill; don't really have any joint bills) - military BAQ form (N/A) - Any other documentation which shows the marriage was not entered into in order to evade the Immigration Laws of the United States. (scary sounding!) After lots of freaking out, I've calmed down and come up with these ideas: - Get my husband on the condo dues bill, the cable bill or one of our credit cards (but it would only be one month of bills) - Get documentation from condo front office of when we notified him that my husband was moving in; if they don't have any official documentation, then signed statements from them that they know he lives with me (we stop by the office all the time for packages, plus they must see us on the security cameras all the time) - Send in statements from the past 2.5 years of the joint checking account owned by me, my husband and my friend (we started a joint checking account when we bought the condo because all household bills were shared; I added my husband to it when he moved here so he could contribute his paychecks as well) - Send in statements of cell phone bills (if I can get old ones sent to me; I had paperless billing and recently cut the service I had for years, so depends whether phone co. can send to me) of the cellphone plan I had with me, my husband and my friend (it was cheapest to have a family plan since we all had same address, but we've recently moved to three separate prepaid plans). Do any of these sound like things that would help my case? I think it would establish residence, even though we don't have any utility bills that are shared just between him and me. I hope the joint ownership of the condo doesn't complicate things. I wish I'd just gotten a stupid land line phone in my and my husband's name in the beginning, but I just assumed I would accumulate enough evidence over the years so I wasn't really thinking about specific proofs to build up!	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-16 21:29:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Have your affidavit-providers been contacted?	Thanks so much, guys! I just wanted to make sure it wouldn't require too much of a time commitment, in general--we're thinking of asking some of Neil's coworkers, and they're all overbooked, all the time.	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-18 09:47:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Have your affidavit-providers been contacted?	We are in the process of trying to lift conditions on my husband's permanent U.S. residence. I'm putting together additional proof in response to an RFE we just got last night. One thing I didn't do in the original packet was affidavits, so I thought I'd throw that in. The main emphasis of the RFE was to provide evidence of communal residence, so I thought since we have lots of parties it would help to have our friends write about that. So my question is: Have any of the people who provided affidavits for your applications been contacted? If so, what have they been asked? And do they just get called, or do they get asked to go in to a service center and interview in person? I just want to be able to tell my friends what they might be in for; hate to impose on them without knowing how much of a time commitment or hassle it's going to be. thanks!	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-17 13:59:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	need help for collecting documents	Print out e-mails if they mention you both as a couple; they will have a time-date stamp and will be useful.	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-18 15:18:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Concerns and some questions !!	Actually, not everyone has to submit the passport-style photos. Here's the wording in I751 instructions: Exception Those who reside overseas pursuant to military or government orders, including conditional resident dependents residing overseas and listed under Part 5 of the form, must submit the following items with Form I-751: Two passport-style photos for applicants and dependents, regardless of age. If you're living in the U.S., as I understand the instructions, you just need to send in a copy (front and back) of your Permanent Resident Card.	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-19 09:10:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Duplicate information in response to RFE I797E?	Didn't know there was something called "tax transcripts"--I'll look into that today! Good idea about cell phone bills--I'm going to try and get old bills from T-Mobile (I lost access to them online because we went prepaid in April) of the group plan we shared for 2+ years with our housemate/co-owner of condo. If I do get those statements, I will highlight our calls to each other to show we talk! No lease/mortgage or joint utility bills, unfortunately--that's why I'm scrambling for tons of other circumstantial evidence, so hopefully we won't get rejected for not having any of that! Edited by Team Baby, 19 June 2009 - 01:03 PM.	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-19 13:02:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Duplicate information in response to RFE I797E?	Thanks so much for your replies! I don't know what I'd do without this Web site. I have another question--when submitting my joint checking account statements, should I do every three months (four per year) or every other month (six per year)? I have to pay $6 per statement to get the older ones from my bank since we're on paperless, so I'll get every other month if necessary, but if every three months seems sufficient I'd prefer that. (Plus each statement is 7 pages long; this is going to be a huge packet!) Oh, and FYI for Karin/Otto, the original packet included: 2007 and 2008 MFJ tax returns (he only came over in November 2006...but we did file married separate in 2006 since he had no US income, so maybe I'll include that one this time) W2s 3 pieces of mail for each of us, including one paystub Statement from joint savings account started in January 2009 Documentation that we are each other's beneficiary on 401(k), work life insurance, and that he's on my dental plan Documents showing that I cosigned his student loans 10 pages of photos with captions telling location and date (and if that wasn't enough, we have different hairstyles over the years!) Plane ticket receipts from an 07 trip; luggage tag of one of us and plane ticket for other (I know, lame, but I lost one of the tickets and found the tag on my suitcase, but they do show same dates) from 08 trip; plane tickets from 09 trip	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-19 09:29:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Duplicate information in response to RFE I797E?	Hi everyone, Sorry, I'm going to keep posting questions as they occur to me during this RFE process. I want to get it right this time! So they requested further proof of our ongoing communal residence. I'm putting together: - A bigger packet of mail addressed to each of us separately that covers most months between Neil's arrival and now. - Trying to get past phone statements spanning the years. - Ordering past checking account statements spanning the years, and going to ask bank to write up a statement on letterhead of when he was added to account. - Copies of dental bills showing that he uses my insurance and that we schedule our dental visits at the same time, as well as ask dentist for affidavit that I'm a longtime customer and started bringing him once we got married, and that we seem very married. - Letter from Sears card confirming he is on my account even though they don't do joint bills. - Affidavits from friends and family. - Statement or record (hopefully!) from condo front office of when I added Neil as a resident of our condo; barring that, affidavits from staff who have seen us come and go many many times together, and/or handyman who has come into condo and seen us there together. - Explanation of why we don't have things I cannot provide, such as utility bills in both our names and joint mortgage statements. - Vaguely thinking about photographing the building directory that shows our last names with same door code, though that might be too silly! What I'm starting to wonder, though, is whether I should re-include things I provided before that I thought did prove our communal residence and commingled life: - Statements from joint savings account. - Tax returns showing married filing jointly. - W-2s for both of us with same address. Would that be redundant, to include them again? I've seen other people have success with submitting same evidence again. Or should I just enumerate these things in my cover letter to sort of remind them that these pieces of evidence are in their posession?	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-18 16:42:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	RFE: Return this notice/Save this notice	Thanks O und K!! QUOTE (Otto und Karin @ Jul 5 2009, 05:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Team Baby @ Jul 5 2009, 05:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi there, I was going to submit the original blue sheet with my RFE response packet, but then I noticed two conflicting instructions. In large all-caps, it says "Return this notice on top of the requested information" etc. But at the bottom of the same page, it says "Save this notice. Please enclose a copy of it if you write to us about this case" etc. So am I to assume when they say to return this notice, they mean a copy of it? Or do they want me to save a copy for myself and send them the original? You send the original with your response to the RFE and keep a copy.	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-07-05 19:08:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	RFE: Return this notice/Save this notice	Hi there, I was going to submit the original blue sheet with my RFE response packet, but then I noticed two conflicting instructions. In large all-caps, it says "Return this notice on top of the requested information" etc. But at the bottom of the same page, it says "Save this notice. Please enclose a copy of it if you write to us about this case" etc. So am I to assume when they say to return this notice, they mean a copy of it? Or do they want me to save a copy for myself and send them the original?	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-07-05 17:26:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 RFE	Our RFE had a deadline date listed; we got it around June 16, and we have to submit our evidence by July 22. Not sure if that's the date I need it postmarked or the date they need to receive, so I'm hoping to get my evidence collected and sent out by July 6.	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-21 17:11:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	Conditional status removed!	I just wanted to let everyone know that we received our letter letting us know our petition to remove conditions on my husband's permanent residence has been approved! We put our RFE response packet in the mail July 10, they received it July 13, and the date of decision on the letter is July 22. I got some good advice and much-needed reassurance on this forum and just wanted to thank everyone who helped me out!	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-07-25 17:42:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	March 2009 Filers	I submitted our I-751 in late March, and just got RFE yesterday. Sigh...struggling to find more evidence than I already sent...	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-17 15:50:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	RFE for I-751	Just got RFE 3 months after sending in 751...they asked for copies of both our drivers licenses, and more evidence of ongoing communal residence...so I'm trying to pull together cell phone bills, checking account statements and some other mail that came for us separately, but to same address. The reason I didn't include cell phone and checking account stuff the first time is we have joint accounts for both with my friend who co-owns (and lives in) the condo with me--cheaper and less complicated that way--and I was afraid it would be confusing. But that's my best evidence, so I'm going to go ahead and send it now. Also, hopefully statements from my condo's management office, as they see me & husband all the time, and as I told them to add his name to their records when he moved in. I already co-owned condo with my friend, so he doesn't have joint ownership of the property or anything. I might get a couple affidavits too, since I didn't do that first time. My family lives far away and have only met my husband twice, so I'm not sure if I should get one from them, or just from friends who see us every week together. Trying not to freak out...I hope this additional evidence will be enough and will not confuse them.	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2009-06-17 11:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Interview next week in London	Hi It's really reassuring to see the reviews of the interview process. It's been making me feel much less nervous about the whole thing! I wonder if you have any advice about what sort of clothing seems appropriate for the interview? Mine is in London next Wednesday and I have no idea what to wear. Did the men waiting to be interviewed seem particularly dressed up, or was it all quite casual? Time seems to be dragging in the final run up to the actual interview... Filled with nervous energy Neil	Team Baby	Not Telling	England	2006-10-26 14:08:00