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My husband and I just had our AOS interview yesterday. My husband is the petitioner for my family-based green card, and he is an American citizen. The interview went okay, not spectacularly well (he got nervous and got some details wrong like the year we first met, which month he proposed in, etc). At the end the officer issued an RFE. He asked for my original I20s (I had only brought copies), and he also asked for plane tickets from trips abroad we had taken together. This came up during the interview since we are recently married, we didn't have that many documents in our joined names yet. We had a lease for our apartment, joint car insurance and we had brought some pictures to show him from our wedding and trips. He asked if we had the plane tickets for those trips with us (we didn't, but we can print them as they are e-tickets). He also asked if we had bought the tickets together, and we said yes.
When we got home, I found all of of my original I20s, and we got one of the plane tickets for a vacation together in the Caribbean. The second trip though it turned out we had bought our tickets separately (this was to visit my parents back in Europe so I went a week early as my husband could only get off work for a week and I wanted to spend more time with my family). The return flight does show us with seat confirmations next to each other but the tickets turns out were bought separately.
Now at this stage, would it help or hurt our case to send extra documents with the RFE? Here are some things we can send:
- Updated driver licenses copies (This came up during the interview that we had not yet updated the address on our DL to our joint address, but we can go do it next week)
- cards sent to both of us congratulating us on our wedding
- copy of our wedding invitation (also something the officer asked during the interview but we didn't have it with us at the time)
- joint health insurance - I am adding my husband to my health insurance as of 9/1, after the AOS interview, because the insurance coverage from his employer will end on 8/31.
-more pictures of the two of us together
The officer did say that it will be probably another officer who reviews the RFE, not himself, but he will leave notes for them. We are just wondering at this stage if we should include those extra documents that he did not specifically ask for. However, when he gave us the form for the RFE the checkbox he checked off was a pretty generic one, asking for more bona fide documentation of our marriage e.g. financial documentation, mail sent to both us, etc. We don't yet have joint mortgage, furniture or bank accounts (we've only been married for 2 months) but we can open one if that will help...
Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
When we got home, I found all of of my original I20s, and we got one of the plane tickets for a vacation together in the Caribbean. The second trip though it turned out we had bought our tickets separately (this was to visit my parents back in Europe so I went a week early as my husband could only get off work for a week and I wanted to spend more time with my family). The return flight does show us with seat confirmations next to each other but the tickets turns out were bought separately.
Now at this stage, would it help or hurt our case to send extra documents with the RFE? Here are some things we can send:
- Updated driver licenses copies (This came up during the interview that we had not yet updated the address on our DL to our joint address, but we can go do it next week)
- cards sent to both of us congratulating us on our wedding
- copy of our wedding invitation (also something the officer asked during the interview but we didn't have it with us at the time)
- joint health insurance - I am adding my husband to my health insurance as of 9/1, after the AOS interview, because the insurance coverage from his employer will end on 8/31.
-more pictures of the two of us together
The officer did say that it will be probably another officer who reviews the RFE, not himself, but he will leave notes for them. We are just wondering at this stage if we should include those extra documents that he did not specifically ask for. However, when he gave us the form for the RFE the checkbox he checked off was a pretty generic one, asking for more bona fide documentation of our marriage e.g. financial documentation, mail sent to both us, etc. We don't yet have joint mortgage, furniture or bank accounts (we've only been married for 2 months) but we can open one if that will help...
Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
