Greencard through marriage, couple not living together.

[Rose2017]

Hello everyone, I am looking for some advice and would be most grateful for any comments...
I am getting married to my boyfriend (a US citizen) in a few weeks, I am British and in the US on an ESTA. It is my second entry on the same ESTA and I had no problem on my second entry. We are currently living in different states. He is planning on moving to be with me as soon as he gets a job but that process could take a few months. He currently has a good job which enables him to sponsor me. If he moved without a job we would need a guarantor for our petition which we do not have. So we are getting married and will live apart until he can be here. We are building evidence of our relationship (joint bank account and insurances, photographs, telephone records, evidence of trips and time spent together and avidavits from two family members - we don't have a lease as we don't live together yet). We are putting together the petition ourselves since we cannot afford a lawyer.
My question is, has anyone been successful in this process in the circumstance that the married couple do not live together?

[shark101au]

Hi, we had a somewhat similar situation. We lived apart but in the same state due to work circumstances at the time. We were concerned about the same thing. We had a lot of evidence of a joint life together and at our interview were honest and upfront that we lived apart (we did have a joint lease at one place). Our interviewer didn't bat an eyelid. We did however have joint tax returns, joint Credit Cards, family photos with us with both our families etc. I think the living apart can be explained (especially in today's world) as long as there is strong evidence of a joint life.

Good Luck!