proof of meeting and immunization

[mozplay 29]

Hi,

We are gathering all our information for the I-129F package and I was wondering if I could get your advice on the following:

I am trying to get all the medical stuff completed that I possibly can. I got this list of immunizations off another post - can you tell me if it is complete and if there is anything else that you can think of that I can do between now and the formal medical?

Mumps

Measles

Rubella

Polio

Tetanus

Diphtheria toxoids

Pertussis

Influenza type B

Hepatitis B

Is anything on this list not mandatory (I work in a school so I am current with my MMRs and TDP boosters).

Proof of Meeing in last 2 years:

I can't tell you how stressed I am about this as we usually drive to see eachother and don't stay in hotels. Can you tell me if this is enough?

2 Visa statements noting purchases made in the US from me (Canadian)

(Will get same from him)

1 hotel receipt of a 2-night stay for his cousin’s wedding

1 airline booking information (expedia.com) from my flight from NJ to Buffalo (I drove the rest of the way home)

Copy of a parking pass that was issued to me (my car information is on it) to park at the University he was working at last year

Receipt of car repairs done in his hometown last summer (again, my name, his name and car info on receipt)

Photos – at least three of him and I and quite a few with his family and some with mine.

I would just hate to get things denied because we did not have enough proof. Just wondering if I need to check into a hotel sometime soon, lol.

Thanks

Mo

[William33 110]

Hi,

We are gathering all our information for the I-129F package and I was wondering if I could get your advice on the following:

I am trying to get all the medical stuff completed that I possibly can. I got this list of immunizations off another post - can you tell me if it is complete and if there is anything else that you can think of that I can do between now and the formal medical?

Mumps

Measles

Rubella

Polio

Tetanus

Diphtheria toxoids

Pertussis

Influenza type B

Hepatitis B

Is anything on this list not mandatory (I work in a school so I am current with my MMRs and TDP boosters).

Proof of Meeing in last 2 years:

I can't tell you how stressed I am about this as we usually drive to see eachother and don't stay in hotels. Can you tell me if this is enough?

2 Visa statements noting purchases made in the US from me (Canadian)

(Will get same from him)

1 hotel receipt of a 2-night stay for his cousin’s wedding

1 airline booking information (expedia.com) from my flight from NJ to Buffalo (I drove the rest of the way home)

Copy of a parking pass that was issued to me (my car information is on it) to park at the University he was working at last year

Receipt of car repairs done in his hometown last summer (again, my name, his name and car info on receipt)

Photos – at least three of him and I and quite a few with his family and some with mine.

I would just hate to get things denied because we did not have enough proof. Just wondering if I need to check into a hotel sometime soon, lol.

Thanks

Mo

I would say that more photos might be useful. Be sure they are in different settings, during different timelines. Many people get approved having met only once! Not to worry.

[eclowjpd 0]

Of all that you listed, only the photos show that you have met. But the other things may support the photos. If you have any correspondance such as email with dates that relate to these other items, or your meetings that would help.

[Chuckles 0]

I think your evidence is good. You have a hotel reciept that shows you both at the same place. A plane ticket and reciepts that show you where in his hometown, with pictures to back it up. If you read the 'letter' of the rules, you only have had to have met within the last 2 years. You do not need to show anything other then intent to marry after that. In other words you did not have to have lived together or anything such as that.

I know how it is, you did not necessarily plan to file a K1 when you were visiting so you didn't really pay much attention to saving reciepts and pictures and stuff. I suggest the next time you guys get together you make a conscience effort to keep reciepts/documentation and such for your interview when you show an ongoing relationship because they tend to want more. Of course your interview will be much further down the road, but I wish you luck on your journey!

[aussiewench 9]

Of all that you listed, only the photos show that you have met. But the other things may support the photos. If you have any correspondance such as email with dates that relate to these other items, or your meetings that would help.

Photos are looked on as secondary evidence. Other evidence that the OP listed such as receipts for car repairs/hotel with both names on it would be primary evidence. Depending on the evidence and circumstances, the flight from NJ to Buffalo could also be primary evidence.

mozplay

Use Q18 on the I-129F to detail the circumstances of having met in the required 2 year period and how it established the relationship. Include here also the reason you do not have passport stamps/boarding passes etc due to you driving across. Im sure they are aware of that fact with you being from Canada but you should also include it. You are trying to create the whole picture in the minds eye of the adjudicator. The evidence you will then submit is in support of that answer. You mention a cousins wedding....did both of you attend? If so was there an invitation with both names. Just something else that you may like to include.

Edited June 22, 2006 by aussiewench

[mozplay 29]

Of all that you listed, only the photos show that you have met. But the other things may support the photos. If you have any correspondance such as email with dates that relate to these other items, or your meetings that would help.

Photos are looked on as secondary evidence. Other evidence that the OP listed such as receipts for car repairs/hotel with both names on it would be primary evidence. Depending on the evidence and circumstances, the flight from NJ to Buffalo could also be primary evidence.

mozplay

Use Q18 on the I-129F to detail the circumstances of having met in the required 2 year period and how it established the relationship. Include here also the reason you do not have passport stamps/boarding passes etc due to you driving across. Im sure they are aware of that fact with you being from Canada but you should also include it. You are trying to create the whole picture in the minds eye of the adjudicator. The evidence you will then submit is in support of that answer. You mention a cousins wedding....did both of you attend? If so was there an invitation with both names. Just something else that you may like to include.

Thanks for all the advice. Eclowjpd ... you are scaring the heck outa me!!! But I understand your point. My hotel receipt only has my name on it unfortunately, but we can get a copy of the wedding invitation, which is clearly from his side, so perhaps the two together will suffice. The receipts for my car repairs .. both our names are on that one. We have tonnes of emais - between the two of us, we have saved them ALL (we are both literary - go figure). I will work on getting more photos (or perhaps jsut develop the rolls that are waiting patiently, lol) .... and as I type, I am already plotting out the Q18 letter part of the form.

Thank you again,

Mo

[William33 110]

Of all that you listed, only the photos show that you have met. But the other things may support the photos. If you have any correspondance such as email with dates that relate to these other items, or your meetings that would help.

Photos are looked on as secondary evidence. Other evidence that the OP listed such as receipts for car repairs/hotel with both names on it would be primary evidence. Depending on the evidence and circumstances, the flight from NJ to Buffalo could also be primary evidence.

mozplay

Use Q18 on the I-129F to detail the circumstances of having met in the required 2 year period and how it established the relationship. Include here also the reason you do not have passport stamps/boarding passes etc due to you driving across. Im sure they are aware of that fact with you being from Canada but you should also include it. You are trying to create the whole picture in the minds eye of the adjudicator. The evidence you will then submit is in support of that answer. You mention a cousins wedding....did both of you attend? If so was there an invitation with both names. Just something else that you may like to include.

Really? I disagree with you. Photographic evidence is irrefutable. It proves "togetherness" without doubt. All other paperwork can be B.S. It is very difficult to B.S. photos if they are taken with proper background, or in the right location.

I can produce tickets, phone bills, repair bills, restaurant bills or any other paper, but does it prove you met? Certainly not.

Paper evidence only proves you were there, but with whom? They might ask that question!

Photos are the answer. That is the ticket. All other documentation is supportive of the photos.

Edited June 22, 2006 by William33

[aussiewench 9]

Of all that you listed, only the photos show that you have met. But the other things may support the photos. If you have any correspondance such as email with dates that relate to these other items, or your meetings that would help.

Photos are looked on as secondary evidence. Other evidence that the OP listed such as receipts for car repairs/hotel with both names on it would be primary evidence. Depending on the evidence and circumstances, the flight from NJ to Buffalo could also be primary evidence.

mozplay

Use Q18 on the I-129F to detail the circumstances of having met in the required 2 year period and how it established the relationship. Include here also the reason you do not have passport stamps/boarding passes etc due to you driving across. Im sure they are aware of that fact with you being from Canada but you should also include it. You are trying to create the whole picture in the minds eye of the adjudicator. The evidence you will then submit is in support of that answer. You mention a cousins wedding....did both of you attend? If so was there an invitation with both names. Just something else that you may like to include.

Really? I disagree with you. Photographic evidence is irrefutable. It proves "togetherness" without doubt. All other paperwork can be B.S. It is very difficult to B.S. photos if they are taken with proper background, or in the right location.

I can produce tickets, phone bills, repair bills, restaurant bills or any other paper, but does it prove you met? Certainly not.

Paper evidence only proves you were there, but with whom? They might ask that question!

Photos are the answer. That is the ticket. All other documentation is supportive of the photos.

Many past RFE's would refute that as they have specifically stated that photographs do not prove having met in person.

Photos are easy to mess with using photoshop etc. Evidence from outside sources such as boarding passes, credit card receipts etc etc are what USCIS looks on as primary evidence.

I can produce tickets, phone bills, repair bills, restaurant bills or any other paper, but does it prove you met? Certainly not

Most of these are regarded secondary as well. Edited June 22, 2006 by aussiewench