How Do I Prove My New Marriage is Real?

how do I prove my new marriage is real

hi I'm Jim hacking immigration lawyer

practicing law throughout the United

States out of our offices in St Louis

San Diego and Washington DC thanks for

joining us for today's video we're going

to talk about when people get married

and they want to apply for an

immigration benefit right away now a lot

of people ask me Jim what in the world

can I send them to demonstrate that my

marriage is real look we just got

married so let's back up a minute let's

say that you are thinking about getting

married and the first question you have

to ask yourself is

why are we getting married so quickly

now you might have very good reasons

maybe your spouse is only going to be

visiting you in your home country for a

little bit or maybe you have a Visa

that's going to end and you'd like to

get the process started or simply you

understand that USCIS takes a really

really long time to process these cases

and that the state department takes even

longer so really it's nobody's business

why you decided to file so quickly but

it is something that they look at it is

one of their fraud indicators it is

something something that USCIS and the

state department are certainly concerned

about so if you do get married quickly

you might not have that much evidence or

if you've even been dating for a while

you might not have much evidence of the

marriage itself once you get married and

you want to get that immigration process

started because you're a smart person

you watch my videos and you understand

how slow these agencies are so you just

want to get the ball rolling so the

thing you need to understand is that USC

s knows that you're not going to have

that much evidence at the time that you

apply now does that give you an excuse

to not do your very best hell no you

have to do your very best you have to

get as much evidence as you can you

wouldn't believe how many people tell me

oh Jim I could never get this piece of

evidence oh Jim I could never get that

piece of evidence no way dude hold

yourself to a higher standard say to

yourself I'm going to file with as much

evidence as humanly possible don't go in

with a wrong mindset which is how much

can I get away with how much how little

can I send them and still get this case

approved that's the wrong attitude

brother you need to file the strongest

case possible and the way that you do

that is you make it so that the officer

understands why the two of you are

together remember they're suspicious

they think everybody's lying to them

they think everything that is submitted

to them is fake that's their philosophy

that's their approach it's not like

they're balancing things and trying to

give you a fair shot they're looking for

ways to deny your case or at the very

least they're suspicious as hell of this

relationship especially because you got

married so

quickly but you need to understand

you'll have another chance later if you

have an interview to submit more

evidence or if you get an online account

you can submit more evidence later so at

the beginning at the very least you have

to explain how did we meet how did we

spend time together before we got

married why did we get married quickly

what evidence is there who knows about

our relationship who saw us as a couple

before we got engaged what time did we

spend together after we got engaged once

we got married what did we do to start

demonstrating a shared life and that's

the most important stuff married people

begin to share lives together they begin

to share accounts together they begin to

share residences together they begin to

take on liabilities as a couple now of

course it's not true in every single

case in every case is a little bit

different but overall you're going to

have to hit most of the things they're

used to seeing do you have chats do you

have text do you have uh emails to each

other do you have love notes do you have

pictures of you with your s and others

did you go on trips together have you

made any big purchases together have you

planned your wedding together are you

having another wedding all those kinds

of things are the kinds of evidence that

you submit at the beginning now later on

if you get called in for an interview

and you bring updated marital evidence

by that point if you've been married for

a year because these cases are taking so

long you should have a lot more evidence

it shouldn't be the same old evidence

you sub submitted last time it should be

a whole lot more and then of course

later on if you get your green card and

you have to file for the i751 petition

for removal of conditions to demonstrate

you're still married after you got your

2-year green card then you're going to

have to submit even more evidence so

there's sort of a scale of what they're

expecting to see at each stage what

should we see when we get married what

should we see when we come in for an

interview what should we see at the i751

level so these are the kinds of things

that we look at we love helping people

put their cases together a lot of people

um aren't very creative and we have seen

so many strong cases filed and we have

filed so many strong cases of our own

we've had clients who are very creative

and how they um demonstrate that shared

life together um but those are the

basics those are the things that you

almost have to submit now listen USCIS

usually sends a request for evidence if

they feel like you haven't submitted

enough evidence but in a small

percentage of cases I'd say 10 to 20%

now they just flat out deny it if they

think you haven't submitted enough

evidence so this is really important

stuff you could waste the 535 or the

12225 or whatever the filing fees are um

for the i130 and the I45 and more

importantly you could have to start all

over right and so that's a real bummer

so people all the time think well the

only bad thing that's going to happen is

I get denied well not necessarily so I

mean not only could you get delayed or

denied you could also get sort of a

black mark and they said well you f once

before and we weren't convinced so now

you're coming back to us so then you're

sort of at a higher standard so these

are the kind of things that I think

about these are the kinds of things we

talk about here at hacking immigration

law when we're working with clients to

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