RFE - Help needed

[bigdog 376]

Gather all the evidence you can, photos with date stamp, witness statements (notarized), receipts, rental receipts, gas slips, grocery purchases, If you are living in Mexico get something from landlord, neighbor, Primary Evidence is best and most important. Most cases a friend ship may have evolved over a 2 year period. You have your work cut out for you.

[Casprd 167]

A lot of the things you are listing will prove you were in Mexico, but they won't necessarily prove you met your fiance. The pictures will be proof of actually meeting and they don't need to be date stamped. You can write your names and dates on the back if you want. Pictures of you with his family will help too. The lease will prove that you live together which will help. You can also write an evolution of relationship letter and have that notarized in Mexico with both of your signatures on it. Since you travel back and forth every day, once every couple of weeks entering and leaving, you should stop at the customs office and get your passport stamped.

[Kaoticor 5]

A good suggestion a friend recommended to me is to take a picture of the both of you with a well known newspaper with the date clearly showing. This way you have a photo in the same place with a dated authority.

[san diego 407]

Hi everyone!

I need help!

My Fiancee and I have been dating for a year now and I filed the petition in March, 8 months after we were dating. I received my RFE today and it says:

Last Personal Meeting - Submit evidence of meeting the beneficiary in person within the two -year period preceding the filing of the petition. Primary evidence may include airline ticket stubs and receipts (that indicate month, day and year), copies of passport pages that show the identification page and admission stamps, military orders, letter from Commanding Officer, or any evidence that will help USCIS to determine that the petitioner has met the beneficiary within the two years. Secondary evidence may include film-dated photographs of the petitioner and beneficiary together. The following does not constitute evidence of meeting: airline ticket without the month/day/year, disc, videos, emails, letters, phone bills, and greeting cards.

My fiancee lives just across the border. I come and go to Mexico everyday so I do not have airline tickets. We have been living together for the last 3 months. I work here in the US and since it isn't very far, it isn't a problem. I am having a hard time though, thinking of what kind of evidence I can submit since I don't have plane tickets!! I don't have film dated photographs, but i read in a forum I can just manipulate my pictures.

Also, it says "within the two year period preceeding the filing". Does that mean I would have to prove I have known him for two years?

I lived with my fiancee in Tijuana for 3 months and commuted every day. I provided the following:

1) Her ticket to Tijuana

2) Her Mexican visa

3) Our lease in Tijuana

4) I obtained 180 day permit to enter Mexico (green paper similar to I94). You can do it at Departamento Migracion. If you go to Tijuana it is right on the crossing..

5) I also took a trip with her to Cabo and showed tickets.

Do you travel anywhere with her in Mexico?

A good suggestion a friend recommended to me is to take a picture of the both of you with a well known newspaper with the date clearly showing. This way you have a photo in the same place with a dated authority.

This actually sounds fishy.. I wouldn't do it..