Does email/chat really make a difference at interview time?

[queuedup 1]

I don't have the wedding invitations anymore, long story. I wasn't planning on having my wife bring the invitations.

WaitHatter - was your wife asked for the invitation?

[BePatience 0]

I don't have the wedding invitations anymore, long story. I wasn't planning on having my wife bring the invitations.

WaitHatter - was your wife asked for the invitation?

Nope, they didnt ask for one.

[David Allen 3]

I too was a bit hesitant to print out our private email conversations for my fiancee to take to the interview. Because of that - we were told we needed to come back with more proof of relationship. We had sumbitted a lot of photographs of us together, but had little in the way of phone records or emails that we provided.. I think some of this is just going to be the luck of the draw in who is conducting the interview and what type of mood they're in - or how much different information you're submitting... but the more you leave out - the more you leave it to them to interpret what they think your relationship is like, and the better chance they might call for additional scrutiny. We have managed to scrape up more in the way of phone records and emails to give to them - so I think we should still be good to go... but it would have been better to have passed that test the first time.

-David

Hello VJ friends,

I do not plan to be there with my husband at the time of interview. So I was wondering if having copies of emails and chat transcripts really makes any difference to show proof of relationship? These are personal and I just don't feel comfortable with 3rd person reading them.

We got engaged while he was in California on B1 visa. He went back to India and we stayed engaged for a year before getting married. My husband plans to carry following with him during the interview time and I wanted to know if these material is sufficient or I should really print emails/chat transcripts.

Copy of hotel reservation, car rental, flight tickets, and original boarding pass for myself to California (I went to meet my then fiance after engagement)

Copy of flight tickets and original boarding passes to India (my marriage trip)

Copy of receipts of gifts I sent to my husband

Record of skype calls - paid

Record of skype calls - PC to PC

Photo album contain pictures of Engagement, California trip after engagement (just 1 photo), wedding, and honeymoon

Original Hotel receipts of the honeymoon (can't find other stuff)

Original ICICI Joint NRE Bank Account papers

Husband's Life insurance policy papers with me listed as beneficiary

Suggestions, comments, opinions... all welcomed...

[ErinMeetsJohny 0]

Hello VJ friends,

I do not plan to be there with my husband at the time of interview. So I was wondering if having copies of emails and chat transcripts really makes any difference to show proof of relationship? These are personal and I just don't feel comfortable with 3rd person reading them.

We got engaged while he was in California on B1 visa. He went back to India and we stayed engaged for a year before getting married. My husband plans to carry following with him during the interview time and I wanted to know if these material is sufficient or I should really print emails/chat transcripts.

Copy of hotel reservation, car rental, flight tickets, and original boarding pass for myself to California (I went to meet my then fiance after engagement)

Copy of flight tickets and original boarding passes to India (my marriage trip)

Copy of receipts of gifts I sent to my husband

Record of skype calls - paid

Record of skype calls - PC to PC

Photo album contain pictures of Engagement, California trip after engagement (just 1 photo), wedding, and honeymoon

Original Hotel receipts of the honeymoon (can't find other stuff)

Original ICICI Joint NRE Bank Account papers

Husband's Life insurance policy papers with me listed as beneficiary

Suggestions, comments, opinions... all welcomed...

You can blacken out what you dont want them to read and you dont need to use all of the conversations that you have had together just a few from a few different dates. I personally didnt care what they read, so i did not blacken anything out. I dont even think they read them anywayz.

[reeses16 8]

E-mails were very important during my hubby's interview. Most of his questions were related to random questions from our e-mails. I didn't think they were important evidence. My hubby thought differently, printed them all out, which was good for us since thats the only thing the CO was interested in .

Do whatever you think is best, if you don't include e-mails I'm sure the CO will just ask different questions. I think its more important to have a well rounded body of evidence proving a bona fide on going relationship than focusing on one type in particular. As others have posted, there is no problem blacking out private info. We didn't bother.