Joint residency proof for marriage petition

Dear my fellow Dream Act fellows:

I am married recently to my American-Naturalized citizen boyfriend (now husband...hehe) and is gathering and filling up paperwork for the marriage petition. I applied DACA last year and received mine so now hopefully everything will come through with the petition.

Meanwhile, the attorney that I work with, whom will file the paperwork for me, told me I need to gather evidences showing that we are marriage couples legit, such as lease agreement, joint bank account, phone bills, etc. My boyfriend has a stable job with good income and is living with his mom (they have a big home), also most of the utilities bills are under his mom's name (with exception of Cox bill). We opened an bank account together, added both of our names to each others car titles, my name added to his health insurance through work, and also some photos of us, etc. The attorney, however, insisted that we shall show more "joint residency" so I wonder if I should have my husband' mom to write up a lease agreement. My husband do contribute money to his mom on a monthly base before we got married, and each time is a cash payment. Does anyone have similar experience or give me suggestions? I would greatly appreciate it.


Thank you,
Linda

You should have your mother-in-law fill out a lease agreement with both of your names on it. Aside from that, you can have things such as your drivers license address and bills contain the same address as your husband's. When my wife and I had to submit our proof, we had both drivers licenses with the same address, joint PG&E bill, water and garbage bill, joint bank account, lease agreement and about 40-50 pictures of our 7-year relationship. This is what helped us get approved since we had only been married for 10 months at the time of our interview, had only been living together for those 10 months and we didn't have any children.

The one thing you don't want to do for your interview is not have a good answer for certain questions. They will ask you why you don't have any kids or why you haven't lived together after getting married. So you either can avoid those questions by having proof that you live together or come up with a REALLY good excuse.

The lease is definitely a good idea. I'm not sure if you live together with his mother but if that's the case you should take things that are mailed to that address with both of your names to the AOS interview i.e. magazines, letters, etc. Also, if you all have cell phones add each other to your respective accounts. Have tons of pictures and items if you all have traveled or gone to events i.e. tickets to a concert. Hope this helps.

Lease Agreement will help you but you can also have your neighbors write a letter stating that you have been living there.

I dont know how a lease written by your mother-in-law would help you in any way. Just because she does one doesnt mean you actually live there. You have to start thinking the way the interviewing office will think of it. When are you two now that are married planning on moving out together? More so than the lease, i would suggest getting written affidavits of the people who live in that house attesting to you residing there and be ready to answer questions about this for your interview if you havent moved out by then.

When you two have the wedding ceremony, take pictures. Take a lot of pictures. Compile a wedding book or something and bring it with you when you get interviewed by a judge.

Lol Interviews are conducted by an Immigration Officer...

I don't think a lot wedding ceremony pictures will make much of a difference. The immigration officer that we had during the interview was more interested in the date stamps in the photos and in the other people in our pictures. As I stated earlier, we had about 50 pictures of our 7-year relationship and some of them were pictures of us with my family and others with her family. We had pictures with friends and with our goddaughters. I think they're more interested in that rather than a whole photo album of just one day.

Hello,

I suggest you visit the forum immigrate2us.net . They are more familiar and have a lot more experience with these kinds of questions, because the forum is based on adjustment of status. There are also more adults there, too. Also, I know of a lawyer or two that frequents the forum and even gives Q&A's every two weeks or so.

I wish you the best of luck!