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I believe the processing time for the Atlanta District office is 6 months for AOS. So if we file AOS package with I-130 petition at the end of this month, we can expect his EAD around April, and expect our AOS interview around approximately July/August? So that gives him 3-5 months of work before our interview.....
Someone told me a red flag would go up on us becuase it's uncommon for 18/19 year olds to get married...I was also told that I didn't have to send the bona fide marriage documents with the packet, just to work on gathering them up for the interview. I just want to prepare and not be denied..
At the time of the interview if we take stuff like joint checking accounts, savings bonds together, simple cards together like blockbuster/Sams Club,etc, we won't have filed taxes by then because we would only have been married 7-8 months by then, no joint ownership, no joint leases, etc, except for a letter from my parents saying we live with them**************and of course pictures and cards,etc galore!
Will this be sufficient at the time of the interview? I'm trying to figure out whether to file NOW or wait 3 YEARS until I graduate college and we can get our own place, and I really don't want to wait that long for him to be able to work!!!! (he graduates in 2 years)
 
No. It will not be sufficient, but there will be plenty of things you can add to it.

I went through Atlanta, AOS. I sent my paperwork on May 2007. got my GC in August 2007.

Is your fiancee on an F1 visa?
 
I'm no IO but to me what you had listed here was a pretty good list. Now, you'll have to be prepared to be asked why you got married and what your plans are.

Your burden of proof for evidence of a shared life will indeed be differerent between the time you send the application and the time of the interview. You should send some evidence of a bona fide marriage that you have thus far, but in 6 months you'll be expected to have more. You're not expected to send entire photo albums and all your financial documents together; send some to fulfill the initial evidence requirement listed in I-130 and bring the rest to the interview.

A practical consequence of waiting with the application until you're married for 2 years will be that you don't have to file for removal of condition (I-751) 2 years later. But another consideration is that your husband is out of status and it's probably a good idea for him to have a legal status again sooner rather than later.
 
Thanks! Ok I will send that list you are talking about WITH the packet when I mail it and by the time of the interview have more..... What MORE will I get to have by the interview, like what?
 
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