221G for lack of ongoing relationship evidence!!

[photomile 101]

Congrats!

I have spent most of today printing a tonne of evidence.

Heh

[Sunshine25 17]

Congrats!

I have spent most of today printing a tonne of evidence.

Heh

Me too

[Patsgal54 18]

Me three! I feel like I need to go plant a tree to make up for the amount of paper I've used!

[Elora & Rob 15]

Me for. I got a box full of stuff ready and a printer full off paper to print stuff. not worth the risk.

[Stu4Lee 66]

I got approved today at window 16, I took loads of photos and telephone records and cards and they never asked to see them, No-one even asked for the up-dated letter of intent either.

Congrats!!!!

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

Hmmm. That's really weird.

Hope you get it sorted, Stu4Lee.

We'll have to keep our eyes open to see if we see more of this kind of thing.

[LeedsUK 4]

Stu, I am so sorry to read about your experience, but as others have said, good on you for having such a positive mental attitude! It's not a crisis at all & it can be easily fixed. Got everything crossed for you!

Being an extremely paranoid person anyway though, it definitely freaked me out & ever since my fiance & I got together, we knew we'd need to keep records of things for the future so I have preserved almost every boarding pass, tickets to cinemas, museums, galleries, concerts, everything we have done together. As well as take tons of photos, I was going to take all this to my interview, as well as letters of intent, despite most people saying London doesn't want to see any evidence & having read all the interview experiences, almost all of you were done in 10 minutes without being asked to even whip a photo out. Nevertheless, I feel like we have all learned from this so there's no harm taking more stuff with us.

The skype & chat logs though, is this really necessary? I think for those of you that have not been able to visit as much it is, but my case is different. We have pages & pages obviously, but to avoid printing out a trees worth of stuff, & also not wanting to show really personal conversations, I'd rather not. I could print out a few & then marker out what I don't want them to read? But we have visited each other 4 times in the past 10 months, mine were all long visits so the longest we have been apart is 6 weeks. As I have all the physical evidence of trips we have taken together etc, does it sound like I have enough stuff? Or do I need to start wasting paper like everyone else? lol

[LouisePaul 0]

I'm so sorry this happened! Like everyone else is saying good on ya for the amazing attitude after that!

A few years back my guy tried to come over on a student visa with the full intent to go to school here lol and my parents were sponsoring him (I was too young to get married at the time), and I just asked him about the interviewer he said the lady wore glasses had dark hair in a pony tail and was in late 20s or so - he didn't get the visa because she didn't believe friends would sponsor him (my dad signed a letter of intent and had bank statements)or that he was actually going to go to the school here - okay granted we didn't know much about the process and didn't know about VJ at the time. . .But it would be funny - in a not funny but kinda funny way if it was the same lady.

Also everyone keeps mentioning skype logs - I'd be more than willing to print them out but the only problem is we never really said anything in chat we'd always be in a call if talking on skype - so there would only be goodnight messages and calls - does that count? lol

Good luck Stu!!

[LeedsUK 4]

I'm so sorry this happened! Like everyone else is saying good on ya for the amazing attitude after that!

A few years back my guy tried to come over on a student visa with the full intent to go to school here lol and my parents were sponsoring him (I was too young to get married at the time), and I just asked him about the interviewer he said the lady wore glasses had dark hair in a pony tail and was in late 20s or so - he didn't get the visa because she didn't believe friends would sponsor him (my dad signed a letter of intent and had bank statements)or that he was actually going to go to the school here - okay granted we didn't know much about the process and didn't know about VJ at the time. . .But it would be funny - in a not funny but kinda funny way if it was the same lady.

Also everyone keeps mentioning skype logs - I'd be more than willing to print them out but the only problem is we never really said anything in chat we'd always be in a call if talking on skype - so there would only be goodnight messages and calls - does that count? lol

Good luck Stu!!

Hi Louise,

I feel the same. I checked some of my skype logs after reading Stu's story last night & they are all quite rubbish really & not in depth conversations at all, just checking in on each other to see what time we'll each be free to video or phone each other. I know it's more about the amount of contact than what's actually being said though, correct me if I'm wrong anyone but isn't it so if they can see you are communicating everyday & not once a month? As that would be the reflection of a close relationship?

[LeftCoastLady 441]

There is a way to extract the call log data from Skype. It would show the call, who it's with, and the length of the conversation in a handy-dandy spreadsheet format. This option works with both Mac and Windows on Firefox: http://stephanietan.boldersecurity.com/2011/04/analyzing-skype-chat-and-call-logs.html

Once I exported the data, I just sorted for conversations with my fiancé and have them organized by date. Like many on here, we mostly use Skype for video chats, so the only IMs are when we're sending links to something.

[LouisePaul 0]

There is a way to extract the call log data from Skype. It would show the call, who it's with, and the length of the conversation in a handy-dandy spreadsheet format. This option works with both Mac and Windows on Firefox: http://stephanietan.boldersecurity.com/2011/04/analyzing-skype-chat-and-call-logs.html

Once I exported the data, I just sorted for conversations with my fiancé and have them organized by date. Like many on here, we mostly use Skype for video chats, so the only IMs are when we're sending links to something.

Awesome! Really great link!

[photomile 101]

There is a way to extract the call log data from Skype. It would show the call, who it's with, and the length of the conversation in a handy-dandy spreadsheet format. This option works with both Mac and Windows on Firefox: http://stephanietan.boldersecurity.com/2011/04/analyzing-skype-chat-and-call-logs.html

Once I exported the data, I just sorted for conversations with my fiancé and have them organized by date. Like many on here, we mostly use Skype for video chats, so the only IMs are when we're sending links to something.

Did not know about that one! I was exporting to skype logview on windows. Neat!

[Elora & Rob 15]

thanks LCL

Have decided for the interview I am going to put together;

a) Photos from Elora's trip to London in April (including ones with my Mother) and from trips to US in May, June & coming up in August. 3 photos from each trip.

b)Skype call history

c) Engagment ring receipt

d) Boarding passes

e) Phone Bills

f) Call Cards

g) Letter from employer stating I have handed in my notice

This will literally take an hour to put together.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

thanks LCL

Have decided for the interview I am going to put together;

a) Photos from Elora's trip to London in April (including ones with my Mother) and from trips to US in May, June & coming up in August. 3 photos from each trip.

b)Skype call history

c) Engagment ring receipt

d) Boarding passes

e) Phone Bills

f) Call Cards

g) Letter from employer stating I have handed in my notice

This will literally take an hour to put together.

I don't think you should give notice until you have the visa in hand. What if you ended up in AP for months? Wouldnt you need to keep earning money while you waited? Being British born, it's unlikely but you never know.

[Stu4Lee 66]

Does all evidence have to be supplied in paper form??