Email & messenging pseudonyms

[StraightShooter 62]

My fiancee and I each use instant messenging pseudonyms for the usual online safety reasons. Her Yahoo account has been hacked several times in the past.

Could this become an issue for her at interview time? I included a few emails as part of front loading the I-129f and hadn't considered it then. Her pseudonym shows as sender and my real name shows as recipient on some emails and my pseudonym on a couple others. Since then, all my emails are from my "real" account with my real name.

We don't want the consular officer to think she's a fake or anything.

[TBoneTX 45,089]

Be prepared to explain it (perhaps, be proactive and volunteer it) at the interview.

In any of those e-mails, did either of you refer to the other as "husband" or "wife," even playfully? Sure hope not.

[EminTX 131]

How about writing and sending some real letters, postcards, and cards? Those certainly won't be hacked. You have several months of time to kill and nothing beats getting something in the mail that your beloved held in his/her own hands. If you absolutely must write something that you don't want seen by any official person, put it on a Post-it note that your beloved can just take off. I like to perfume the stickies then he can stick that on his headboard and enjoy the fragrance for a couple of nights.

(Hint: Screen shots taken periodically during live video chat are also popular to include. It's typically FN + PRT SC and then paste it into Paint or a document or whatever.)

[StraightShooter 62]

Be prepared to explain it (perhaps, be proactive and volunteer it) at the interview.

In any of those e-mails, did either of you refer to the other as "husband" or "wife," even playfully? Sure hope not.

Nope, never said husband or wife. We're well aware of that issue.

We did/do use our real names in the body text of the emails as well.

[StraightShooter 62]

How about writing and sending some real letters, postcards, and cards? Those certainly won't be hacked. You have several months of time to kill and nothing beats getting something in the mail that your beloved held in his/her own hands. If you absolutely must write something that you don't want seen by any official person, put it on a Post-it note that your beloved can just take off. I like to perfume the stickies then he can stick that on his headboard and enjoy the fragrance for a couple of nights.

(Hint: Screen shots taken periodically during live video chat are also popular to include. It's typically FN + PRT SC and then paste it into Paint or a document or whatever.)

Snail mail. How quaint!

I dunno, it takes almost 2 months for her to receive actual snail mail from me. Of course, I'll be sending the I-134 package soon, which will be going via FedEx, so I guess I could put a little note in there.

Yes, I'm very familiar with screen shots. I've taken dozens of them of us chatting together. I paste them into PowerPoint... makes it very easy to resize, then save them as .jpg files.

Has anyone actually had direct experience with this pseudonym issue?

[StraightShooter 62]

UPDATE:

I chatted with my finacee last night and she says that she changed her Yahoo email to reflect her real name last year... and that all of my emails to and from her since that time show both of our real names. So, it's some configuration thing which we'll worry about once she's here and I can do the troubleshooting.

The good news is that for proof of ongoing relationship, the emails she will bring to her interview will all have the correct names in the TO/FROM areas!

We're GTG.