Proof of Relationship and Shared Activities. Of course, a marital relationship is about more than bank accounts and long-term financial planning. Your relationship probably includes many real moments that are evidence of your genuine affection for each other. Your experiences with one another as well as friends and family count for something. Examples include:

• Evidence of trips the couple has taken together or to visit one another, including bills and receipts reflecting hotel stays, car rental, plane tickets, or excursions together while on the trip. You may also show corresponding passport stamps if you traveled together.
• Evidence of any correspondence between spouses, including letters, birthday and holiday cards, phone bills, email, Facebook conversations or any other social media account.
• Receipts from gifts that you bought for one another (such as gifts of affection or wedding rings).
• Evidence of wedding-related expenses or correspondence with vendors such as wedding dress, groom's suit, catering, flowers, entertainment, videographer or photographer. Ideally, the receipt should name the couple and day of the event.
• Other evidence of the wedding such as invitations, wedding sign-in book, religious certificate, or a newspaper announcement of the engagement and wedding.
• Birth certificates of children born into the relationship or medical records from a doctor that says you are pregnant or are seeking fertility treatment.
• Photographs that show both spouses together, preferably with family and friends. Ideally the photos will span throughout the relationship, before the marriage, during the wedding, and after the wedding. You may assemble the photos in an album with a text box to describe the context of the photo (e.g. why, when, where, who, etc.).

Unemployment Insurance Benefits Are Normally Not Subject to Public Charge. Unemployment insurance benefits are not generally taken into consideration by the USCIS for purposes of making a public charge determination. As USCIS explained in its final rule on inadmissibility on public charge grounds ...

"DHS would not consider federal and state retirement, Social Security retirement benefits, Social Security Disability, post secondary education, and unemployment benefits as public benefits under the public charge inadmissibility determination as these are considered to be earned benefits through the person's employment and specific tax deductions". Additionally, the USCIS Policy Manual states that unemployment benefits are not considered by USCIS in a public charge inadmissibility determination as unemployment insurance is considered by USCIS as an "earned" benefit. See USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 8, Part G, Chapter 10. 

As a result of the definitions laid out in the final rule and the USCIS Policy Manual, claiming unemployment insurance benefits (if otherwise eligible for it) should not lead to a public charge determination. The unemployment benefit insurance program is administered by the states who pick up the cost of providing the unemployment insurance initially (normally 26 weeks). After this period, the federal government pays for the cost of the unemployment insurance up to a certain maximum number of weeks. Eligibility for unemployment insurance varies slightly by state and also as to whether the benefits are paid by the state (during the first 26 weeks) or by the federal government (afterwards). 

We should caution, however, that losing one's job may create factors which would weigh negatively during a public charge analysis. For example, many workers obtain health insurance through their employment and not having health insurance, especially with medical conditions, is a negative factor for public charge.