Docs for "Removal of Conditional Residency"

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I have a question regarding the documents needed for the "Removal of Conditional Residency", in terms of providing evidence.

My wife (USC) and I are in a situation where we have really no evidence that we live together although we are happily married to share out lives, and live in the same house. Here is the situation - when I got my 2-yrGC, we had the apartment lease documents with both of our names on it. We now live with my parents due to financial reasons and none of our name is on the house title. The ONLY doc we have is our joint-bank account. I pay the cable bills but the cable company told me that only 1 name can be on the bill (same with the cell phone bill). My parents pay all the other utilities. We're also in a situation where we're to the point to not wanting to file income tax (our income in 2011 was not not substantial enough to be required to file but we were planning to file regardless) because of so many things that have gone wrong with the taxes.
The reason why I am posting is because I am worried being denied when filing for the "Removal of Conditional Residency". My GC expires May 2013. I just want to know, is there a good possibility that we would be denied due to lack of evidence? Also, is there anything that we can we do to prepare? We are in a completely real marriage but just happens to be in a tough situation.
 
jb90304 said:
I have a question regarding the documents needed for the "Removal of Conditional Residency", in terms of providing evidence.

My wife (USC) and I are in a situation where we have really no evidence that we live together although we are happily married to share out lives, and live in the same house. Here is the situation - when I got my 2-yrGC, we had the apartment lease documents with both of our names on it. We now live with my parents due to financial reasons and none of our name is on the house title. The ONLY doc we have is our joint-bank account. I pay the cable bills but the cable company told me that only 1 name can be on the bill (same with the cell phone bill). My parents pay all the other utilities. We're also in a situation where we're to the point to not wanting to file income tax (our income in 2011 was not not substantial enough to be required to file but we were planning to file regardless) because of so many things that have gone wrong with the taxes.
The reason why I am posting is because I am worried being denied when filing for the "Removal of Conditional Residency". My GC expires May 2013. I just want to know, is there a good possibility that we would be denied due to lack of evidence? Also, is there anything that we can we do to prepare? We are in a completely real marriage but just happens to be in a tough situation.
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Have you obtained drivers licenses or IDs both showing the same address?

Are either of you working? If yes, are you both covered by the same insurance? Are you named as each other's contact person and beneficiary? Any other joint accounts--even a store credit card? Do you both get mail at the same address, even if separately addressed to each of you individually?

Also, after you moved did you file change of address info with USCIS? YOU file the AR-11 and your sponsors all must file I-865s!
 
BigJoe5 said:
Have you obtained drivers licenses or IDs both showing the same address?

Are either of you working? If yes, are you both covered by the same insurance? Are you named as each other's contact person and beneficiary? Any other joint accounts--even a store credit card? Do you both get mail at the same address, even if separately addressed to each of you individually?

Also, after you moved did you file change of address info with USCIS? YOU file the AR-11 and your sponsors all must file I-865s!
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We both have DL w/ same address
We both work. We have auto insurance but under my parents. Not sure about each other's contact person and beneficiary...
No other joint-accounts, even store ones.. though I suppose we could open one. I have CC of my own though. We get every mail to the same address of course.
I filed AR-11 but had no idea that my sponsors had to file something.. I will get to that. I could contact my lawyer if it's complicated to file.
 
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jb90304 said:
We both have DL w/ same address
We both work. We have auto insurance but under my parents. Not sure about each other's contact person and beneficiary...
No other joint-accounts, even store ones.. though I suppose we could open one. I have CC of my own though. We get every mail to the same address of course.
I filed AR-11 but had no idea that my sponsors had to file something.. I will get to that. I could contact my lawyer if it's complicated to file.
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If you already have a lawyer who helped with your case earlier (and you are pleased with the results) it would not hurt to get some help.
 
BigJoe5 said:
If you already have a lawyer who helped with your case earlier (and you are pleased with the results) it would not hurt to get some help.
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eh.. he is ok....
I was mostly wanting to know how likely it would be for me to get denied of the removal of conditional residency, given what I've got. Even if my lawyer was an excellent one, I want to hear some inputs from more people
 
It's a good thing you're asking this now instead of bringing it up one or two months before your card expires.

Do you and your wife have two cellphones, one in your name and one in her name? If yes, with the bills having the same address, you can use that as evidence.

What about your wife's credit card? She doesn't have one?

You don't have health insurance? That's important to have, with or without immigration concerns. You don't have to choose an expensive policy -- you can get catastrophic coverage for probably under $250/month for both of you combined, if you're under 30.

You said you both work -- if your employers send you mail (paystubs, benefit forms, 401k statements, etc.) to the same address, you can also use that.
 
Jackolantern said:
It's a good thing you're asking this now instead of bringing it up one or two months before your card expires.

Do you and your wife have two cellphones, one in your name and one in her name? If yes, with the bills having the same address, you can use that as evidence.

What about your wife's credit card? She doesn't have one?

You don't have health insurance? That's important to have, with or without immigration concerns. You don't have to choose an expensive policy -- you can get catastrophic coverage for probably under $250/month for both of you combined, if you're under 30.

You said you both work -- if your employers send you mail (paystubs, benefit forms, 401k statements, etc.) to the same address, you can also use that.
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So we don't exactly have to have both names on the same document to be used as evidence? I guess the fact that multiple documents have the same address works, although only 1 name is on it. In that case, we will also have our W-2s.
For the cellphone, we have a family plan together but our company (T-mobile) only allows 1 name to be on the bill. They DO allow others to be added as an "authorized user" but won't show up on the paper. it DOES, however, show all numbers on the bill, but there is no way of proving that those numbers are actually ours.

To summarize, this is what we would expect to have:
-Joint-bank accounts (2 of them)
-Auto insurance w/ both of our names on it
-DL w/ same address
-Each other's W-2 (separate doc but same address)
-My own CC & cable bill (only my name on it)
-Family cellphone plan but does not actually show names, only phone#s

We're gearing towards not filing our 2011 Income Tax (didn't make enough to be required anyways but were planning to)... In case you're wondering why not, things gotten so complicated. We have multiple W-2s and school grant papers and some of the SS on it was wrong so we got a W-2c but by that time, we've moved to my parents place so all the addresses are different too now and just etc.. etc.........
 
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