I-751 with no affidavits from friends?

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sguen

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My wife and I are preparing my form I-751 and we have two years of joint taxes, joint checking account, we both on the lease for our apartment and of course we have a lot of pictures together. Is it ok if we don't send two affidavits from friends who know us together? We don't want to bother our friends with this and involve them in our legal matters. What are the chances of the INS requiring us to do that and call us to an interview?
Thanks in advance!
 
sguen said:
My wife and I are preparing my form I-751 and we have two years of joint taxes, joint checking account, we both on the lease for our apartment and of course we have a lot of pictures together. Is it ok if we don't send two affidavits from friends who know us together? We don't want to bother our friends with this and involve them in our legal matters. What are the chances of the INS requiring us to do that and call us to an interview?
Thanks in advance!
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Hm... That's an interesing question... I didn't send any either, may be that's why it is still pending
:)
Just send the letters, so you can sleep at night :)
 
Dani said:
10.5 months :)
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And you think that's because you didn't send affidavits from your friends? The instructions that come with I-751 say that you can send as many documents as you want and give as an example of a few in order of importance. The affidavit of support from friends is last. That makes me think that it's the least important. I just want to hear this from the experts here.
 
sguen said:
And you think that's because you didn't send affidavits from your friends? The instructions that come with I-751 say that you can send as many documents as you want and give as an example of a few in order of importance. The affidavit of support from friends is last. That makes me think that it's the least important. I just want to hear this from the experts here.
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No, I don't think so, but I don't exclude the possibility
:) Yes, the instructions do say “send as many as you want”, but based on people's personal expereinces — the more proofs you sent, the better. The truth lies in the fact that the applicant has to persuade the immigration officer reviewing the case that the marriage is bona fide... If the officer is not convinced, then there will be delays (as the application will travel to higher authorities) and an interview. So why gamble? Now, looking back, I wish I had submitted those damn affidavits, may be it would made things different. I am already 5 (!) months behind the processing dates, which gives me a lot of headache.
My friend also filed I-751 (affidavits included) a couple of months later after me with the same service center, and she got approved without any interview 2 months ago.
And other “experts” will tell you the same — submit whatever you can, it will only benefit you.
Best of luck!
 
Dani said:
No, I don't think so, but I don't exclude the possibility
:) Yes, the instructions do say “send as many as you want”, but based on people's personal expereinces — the more proofs you sent, the better. The truth lies in the fact that the applicant has to persuade the immigration officer reviewing the case that the marriage is bona fide... If the officer is not convinced, then there will be delays (as the application will travel to higher authorities) and an interview. So why gamble? Now, looking back, I wish I had submitted those damn affidavits, may be it would made things different. I am already 5 (!) months behind the processing dates, which gives me a lot of headache.
My friend also filed I-751 (affidavits included) a couple of months later after me with the same service center, and she got approved without any interview 2 months ago.
And other “experts” will tell you the same — submit whatever you can, it will only benefit you.
Best of luck!
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I filed my I-751 through a lawyer and when he did not ask for the affadavits I asked him don't we need the affadavits because it says so in the instructions and his answer was no we don't. According to my lawyer it was not necessary and until and unless your case has a risk of being denied or something like that you don't have to do that. Personally I don't think it will hurt to file the affadavits but it won't be an issue if you did not since the affadavits are optional and not 'required'.
 
sultan100 said:
I filed my I-751 through a lawyer and when he did not ask for the affadavits I asked him don't we need the affadavits because it says so in the instructions and his answer was no we don't. According to my lawyer it was not necessary and until and unless your case has a risk of being denied or something like that you don't have to do that. Personally I don't think it will hurt to file the affadavits but it won't be an issue if you did not since the affadavits are optional and not 'required'.
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I absolutely agree. But like you said, it won't hurt to send them :)
 
Dani said:
I absolutely agree. But like you said, it won't hurt to send them :)
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My wife and I have some close friends in Oversea. Do you think I could submit the affidavits from (oversea) friends?

We have some good friends in US, and I plan to ask them to write the affidavits too.

By the way, I also want to have my family members to write the affidavits too. However, they are all in oversea. Would it be a problem?

What kind of personal information should my family and friends should include in the affidavits? like their current address? job title? age?

can someone post a sample for how the affidavits should look like (format wise) and what kind of key info should be included?

thx
 
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ocworker said:
My wife and I have some close friends in Oversea. Do you think I could submit the affidavits from (oversea) friends?

We have some good friends in US, and I plan to ask them to write the affidavits too.

By the way, I also want to have my family members to write the affidavits too. However, they are all in oversea. Would it be a problem?

What kind of personal information should my family and friends should include in the affidavits? like their current address? job title? age?

can someone post a sample for how the affidavits should look like (format wise) and what kind of key info should be included?

thx
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Try this link, it might give you some answer to what you are looking for, it has an example.http://www.visajourney.com/faq/k1k2visa-removeconditions.html#7.8.1
 
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