Hi everybody,
I just received a letter from USCIS requesting more evidence about our good faith marriage. We have been married for 3,5 years now, live together but decided to have a separate economy (we both have individual accounts with Bank of America) and have a common credit card, that I use more than my husband. We are subleasing so we venmo our "landlord" the rent payment. what evidence would you suggest we provide in order to show that our marriage was entered in good faith?
The letter focuses on three things and states that all evidence is welcome:
1. Children - we do not have children yet and are not planning on having kids soon;
2. Live together - because we are subleasing, we really dont have a proper lease, we have agreed on the terms verbally. We have lived in the same spot for three years. However, I have asked the lady we are subleasing from to provide us with a lease in both our names;
3. Shared financials - My husband and I are firm believers in a separate economy and split common costs 50/50. The reason is that we have different views on money. I like to save and invest and my husband likes to spend his money. This works for us and we pay common expenses on our credit card such as wifi, phone, groceries, date nights etc.
We both work and have insurance through our work, which is much cheaper than adding each other to the same insurance.
My plan is to submit a declaration explaining any outstanding questions (I mean USCIS must understand that not all married people have the same common economy and we live in Los Angeles, CA so we definitely not buying a house together anytime soon), affidavits from neighbors, credit card transactions, more pictures, screenshots of us being each others beneficiaries on life insurance provided from work.
Any advice on what else we can submit will be greatly appreciated.
We already submitted:
1. Pictures from the beginning to just before submitting the form;
2. Travel tickets - we traveled to Sweden last year together and a bunch of other places;
3. Tax returns;
4. Joint checking account (that we decided not to use anymore since it didnt work for us and we used the credit card to pay for common expenses)
5. Wedding invitations addressed to us both;
6. Affidavits from friends and neighbors.
Thank you so much!
I just received a letter from USCIS requesting more evidence about our good faith marriage. We have been married for 3,5 years now, live together but decided to have a separate economy (we both have individual accounts with Bank of America) and have a common credit card, that I use more than my husband. We are subleasing so we venmo our "landlord" the rent payment. what evidence would you suggest we provide in order to show that our marriage was entered in good faith?
The letter focuses on three things and states that all evidence is welcome:
1. Children - we do not have children yet and are not planning on having kids soon;
2. Live together - because we are subleasing, we really dont have a proper lease, we have agreed on the terms verbally. We have lived in the same spot for three years. However, I have asked the lady we are subleasing from to provide us with a lease in both our names;
3. Shared financials - My husband and I are firm believers in a separate economy and split common costs 50/50. The reason is that we have different views on money. I like to save and invest and my husband likes to spend his money. This works for us and we pay common expenses on our credit card such as wifi, phone, groceries, date nights etc.
We both work and have insurance through our work, which is much cheaper than adding each other to the same insurance.
My plan is to submit a declaration explaining any outstanding questions (I mean USCIS must understand that not all married people have the same common economy and we live in Los Angeles, CA so we definitely not buying a house together anytime soon), affidavits from neighbors, credit card transactions, more pictures, screenshots of us being each others beneficiaries on life insurance provided from work.
Any advice on what else we can submit will be greatly appreciated.
We already submitted:
1. Pictures from the beginning to just before submitting the form;
2. Travel tickets - we traveled to Sweden last year together and a bunch of other places;
3. Tax returns;
4. Joint checking account (that we decided not to use anymore since it didnt work for us and we used the credit card to pay for common expenses)
5. Wedding invitations addressed to us both;
6. Affidavits from friends and neighbors.
Thank you so much!
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