Cover Letter & Package Organization Questions

[rambaldi 0]

Hi,

Two other quick questions for you all. First, in the cover letter, I am supposed to list everything that's included in the package. How detailed does that list have to be? In the template provided on VJ, they simply said "Proof of ongoing relationship" and "Proof of having met in the last 2 years.". Do I need to go into more detail than that and list specifically such as "Credit card bills", "Hotel Receipts", "Flight Itineraries"?

Additionally, how do you recommend that I organize the package? Should I organize by type, that is to say put all credit card bills together, all hotel receipts together. Or Should I organize by trip? That is put all evidence in support of a visit together, and so on? Thanks.

Xin Li

[TracyTN 237]

There is a cover letter example posted on the site. Click on the 'Example forms' link above.

I organized my petition in exactly the order described on the guide. However, the service center will pull it apart and organize it the way they see fit, so it doesn't matter THAT much anyway.

[together2love 0]

Cover letter doesn't need to be specific. As for the order. . . I put it in chronological order of our meetings, etc.

[Ivelina_Andrew 0]

1. We listed everything in our cover letter - including all proof of having met and of ongoing realtionship(we just put proof of ongoing realtionship including .....)

2. We organised our packege by trip, decided it would help more. But I do not know whether it matters that much since they put it in their own folders...

[pnd629 0]

We listed everything on our cover letter.

I used a heading and then bulleted the details below each heading, kind of like an outline. For example, Evidence of Meeting would be a heading, then I bulleted every piece of evidence with a brief description--travel itinerary for XX's first trip to..., ticket stubs for XX's trip, photo of XX and XY in...., etc.

I also wrote the matching description on every piece of evidence so it would be clear to the reviewer what they were looking at.

[JODO 2]

I didn't even use a cover letter so I wouldn't even stress about it too much.

[bora bora 1]

I used the standard cover letter found here and then I created 2 more - one for our proof of meeting and other for ongoing relationship.

For each of those last 2 cover letters I was more specific: Brazilian passport copies, copy of visa, copy of itinerary, etc.

It's up to you though.

[NealandCari 0]

I followed the cover letter on the site. Later in the packet, I put a cover letter just for the proof of relationship. It was a list of all the items of evidence along with their dates.