living abroad and g325a and relationship evidence...one last question, promise!

[anka 1]

Last irriations before I mail in the petition...

Last year I lived abroad (Russia) for 10 months (I had an internship and went to University while there)... Is it necessary to include this since it was neither my permanent address nor did I live there for 12 months or more?

And does the question about working abroad apply to me even though it was an internship for study-not pay? Should I just leave it blank?

I also stayed in Russia a few times prior to the last time, though they weren't quite as long...I probably can just leave those out, right?

And, though my fiance and I lived together for the 7 months out of the 10 I was there for, I don't know if there's any "real/official" evidence of this. Ideas? Only I signed the initial rent contract and we always paid in cash--In fact everything we did together was always paid with cash--- which brings me to another question...

I am afraid we are really lacking in serious evidence to prove our relationship, even though we've been together for almost 2 years! Minimum romantic/kissy pictures to show after having my hard drive die in Nov. 2007. We never used credit cards when we went out or bought anything together ---- most everything is usually always expected to be paid in cash since credit cards are normally a hassle there or are simply not accepted as a form of payment. I mean, twice, I had flights from back to the USA that was paid with in cold cash! So...seeing that any other ideas I can use for the initial evidence to show that our relationship is "bona fide" and that we did live together? Maybe I should just send in all I have now and then (if more is required or am RFE'd) have my fiance track down our old landlady to write a statement about us living together, etc.? would this work? And we do have copies of each other's boarding passes/visa stamps/etc. from when we visited in one another's country...

Sorry for the dumb questions and for rambling on and on--- I'm just really nervous! Plus it completely sucks having spent practically every day and night with my fiance for close to a year yet having little to nothing to legally show for it! Grr... I mean, why would we write emails to each other when we lived together?

Thanks so much everyone and, again, I apologize for these repetitive questions!!!

Anna

[motu 5]

At this stage you just need to show that you met - you can say - we lived together for xx months. You don't need anything more I think. Hopefully you do have some pics (I only sent two pics of us together - thats all we had). The proof of relationship comes in at the interview stage - if you go with her to the interview - then you don't need anything then either. Good Luck

[45495 1]

for the living abroad: if you left for russia for 10 months i would put it in as my address for those months, it might not be permanent, but you were living there, and i assume you registered even if you only studied. i dont think it's necessary to put in short trips (assuming you meant short trips)

as for the pictures, i dont know if it'll work in your situation, but we too lost all of our pictures of the beginning of the relationship because the hard drive crashed, so when we started collecting our evidence of relationship we emailed all the people we knew back when me met, asking for pictures w/ the 2 of us in. (people who study abroad tend to take a load a pictures, and hang out with other exchange students who take just as much pictures, so we ended up with more than enough evidence in the end.)

but ofcourse, you only need those at interview stage... hope that helps...

your visa put's you in Russia, so you should be set for the evidence of meeting.

Last irriations before I mail in the petition...

Last year I lived abroad (Russia) for 10 months (I had an internship and went to University while there)... Is it necessary to include this since it was neither my permanent address nor did I live there for 12 months or more?

And does the question about working abroad apply to me even though it was an internship for study-not pay? Should I just leave it blank?

I also stayed in Russia a few times prior to the last time, though they weren't quite as long...I probably can just leave those out, right?

And, though my fiance and I lived together for the 7 months out of the 10 I was there for, I don't know if there's any "real/official" evidence of this. Ideas? Only I signed the initial rent contract and we always paid in cash--In fact everything we did together was always paid with cash--- which brings me to another question...

I am afraid we are really lacking in serious evidence to prove our relationship, even though we've been together for almost 2 years! Minimum romantic/kissy pictures to show after having my hard drive die in Nov. 2007. We never used credit cards when we went out or bought anything together ---- most everything is usually always expected to be paid in cash since credit cards are normally a hassle there or are simply not accepted as a form of payment. I mean, twice, I had flights from back to the USA that was paid with in cold cash! So...seeing that any other ideas I can use for the initial evidence to show that our relationship is "bona fide" and that we did live together? Maybe I should just send in all I have now and then (if more is required or am RFE'd) have my fiance track down our old landlady to write a statement about us living together, etc.? would this work? And we do have copies of each other's boarding passes/visa stamps/etc. from when we visited in one another's country...

Sorry for the dumb questions and for rambling on and on--- I'm just really nervous! Plus it completely sucks having spent practically every day and night with my fiance for close to a year yet having little to nothing to legally show for it! Grr... I mean, why would we write emails to each other when we lived together?

Thanks so much everyone and, again, I apologize for these repetitive questions!!!

Anna

[anka 1]

Thank you so much!

And good luck to you too!

for the living abroad: if you left for russia for 10 months i would put it in as my address for those months, it might not be permanent, but you were living there, and i assume you registered even if you only studied. i dont think it's necessary to put in short trips (assuming you meant short trips)

as for the pictures, i dont know if it'll work in your situation, but we too lost all of our pictures of the beginning of the relationship because the hard drive crashed, so when we started collecting our evidence of relationship we emailed all the people we knew back when me met, asking for pictures w/ the 2 of us in. (people who study abroad tend to take a load a pictures, and hang out with other exchange students who take just as much pictures, so we ended up with more than enough evidence in the end.)

but ofcourse, you only need those at interview stage... hope that helps...

your visa put's you in Russia, so you should be set for the evidence of meeting.

Last irriations before I mail in the petition...

Last year I lived abroad (Russia) for 10 months (I had an internship and went to University while there)... Is it necessary to include this since it was neither my permanent address nor did I live there for 12 months or more?

And does the question about working abroad apply to me even though it was an internship for study-not pay? Should I just leave it blank?

I also stayed in Russia a few times prior to the last time, though they weren't quite as long...I probably can just leave those out, right?

And, though my fiance and I lived together for the 7 months out of the 10 I was there for, I don't know if there's any "real/official" evidence of this. Ideas? Only I signed the initial rent contract and we always paid in cash--In fact everything we did together was always paid with cash--- which brings me to another question...

I am afraid we are really lacking in serious evidence to prove our relationship, even though we've been together for almost 2 years! Minimum romantic/kissy pictures to show after having my hard drive die in Nov. 2007. We never used credit cards when we went out or bought anything together ---- most everything is usually always expected to be paid in cash since credit cards are normally a hassle there or are simply not accepted as a form of payment. I mean, twice, I had flights from back to the USA that was paid with in cold cash! So...seeing that any other ideas I can use for the initial evidence to show that our relationship is "bona fide" and that we did live together? Maybe I should just send in all I have now and then (if more is required or am RFE'd) have my fiance track down our old landlady to write a statement about us living together, etc.? would this work? And we do have copies of each other's boarding passes/visa stamps/etc. from when we visited in one another's country...

Sorry for the dumb questions and for rambling on and on--- I'm just really nervous! Plus it completely sucks having spent practically every day and night with my fiance for close to a year yet having little to nothing to legally show for it! Grr... I mean, why would we write emails to each other when we lived together?

Thanks so much everyone and, again, I apologize for these repetitive questions!!!

Anna

Thanks so much! And I wish you good luck as well!

At this stage you just need to show that you met - you can say - we lived together for xx months. You don't need anything more I think. Hopefully you do have some pics (I only sent two pics of us together - thats all we had). The proof of relationship comes in at the interview stage - if you go with her to the interview - then you don't need anything then either. Good Luck

[BigCityDave 0]

I lived in Hungary and lived in 5 places while I was there. I listed each place and so far that has been no issue.

Good luck in the process!