hi friends here's immigration 101
question today and this question comes
from a woman who I spoke with just
recently. Question is simply whether she
should submit evidence to prove that her
and her husband have a bona fide
marriage a true or a genuine marriage at
the time that she filed the i-130
petition for her husband now this is a
good question he answer is simply yes
it's simply yes if you take a look at
the instructions for the i-130 petition
it clearly says that if your spouse is
petitioning for you you must submit
certain evidence to prove that you have
a bona fide marriage a true marriage and
not a marriage to get around immigration
laws the caller said that she had only
prepared the i-130 and the i-130 a and
certainly she has copies of their IDs
right like passport photos and such and
driver's license pictures and the
marriage certificate but she did not
think to include documents to prove that
her and her husband have a true and bona
fide marriage so I told her yes you're
gonna need to provide some evidence now
the instructions say that you must
provide at least one of the following
types of evidence to prove that you and
your spouse have a bona fide marriage
and the first set of documents that it
asks for is documents to show joint
ownership of property for example if you
guys have jointly owned your car
together or something like that or your
home mortgage or lease statement or
anything like that something to show
that you have joint ownership of
property or you can show that you guys
live together you can prove that you
guys live at the same address right you
could submit maybe a utility bill with
both of your names and your address on
it or you can submit documents to show
that you guys have commingled or brought
together your resources right so we're
talking about a joint bank account
statement or other financial records to
indicate that you guys have commingled
resources or you can if you guys have
children together you can submit the
birth certificate of your children or it
you can submit letters or affidavits or
which are sworn statements from your
family or friends to demonstrate that
they know about your relationship in
your life together and they are part of
your life the government is saying yes
on the front end meaning from the moment
from the time that you petition for your
spouse when you file that I 1:30 and
that I 1:30 a you must also include some
evidence to prove that you have a bona
fide relationship with your spouse this
was an easy one don't ever send the
government any incomplete packet it's
better to send them more evidence than
less really because you don't want them
to send you a request for additional
evidence and certainly you don't want
them to return your packet to you
because you didn't supply them with what
they've required okay required documents
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