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[kels1787 0]

I am including the rent contract for the apartment where my fiance and I live in Chile as supporting evidence of having met in person in the last two years. The contract is in Spanish and is four pages long. Do I need to translate it? If so, is it necessary to translate all four pages? Or could I just translate the first page that gives the most important information like our names and the time limit of the rental agreement.

Thank you!

[Inky 1,110]

Anything that is not in English must be translated.

[Joy&Fernando 0]

this rent contract is a proof of met in person i think it must be translated

now I have this doubt... I send proof of Ongoing Relationship, chats and emails in Spanish..That will be a problem?

[TBoneTX 45,284]

Anything that you want USCIS to consider needs to be translated (official documents, etc.). Items such as e-mails and chat transcripts are more for the consular phase. You can include them untranslated in the I-129F petition materials (if they're in the chief language of the country where your U.S. consulate is located), but it might be good to attach a cover-note to the effect of: "USCIS -- please pass these foreign-language materials to the consulate along with whatever else you send."

The benefit to "front-loading" the I-129F petition with "extraneous" material (evidence of bona fide relationship beyond what USCIS requires) is that the consulate is not supposed to be able to ignore or discount what they know that USCIS has seen. I don't know whether this benefit is sacrificed if you send untranslated items to USCIS (for whom everything is to be translated into English).