Questions about RFE - HELP!

[Sarah Elle-Même 660]

Any advice on that affidavit? What do they mean about needing two people to attest/swear to it? How do I prove anyone did that? Thanks.

Did they ask you for an affidavit? Whether they did or didn't you can include one. It may help or it may just be fluff. My mom wrote an affidavit for my I-129F packet where she explained her knowledge of our relationship and how she came to get this knowledge. To satisfy the attestation your affidavit writer should get it notarized.

[EminTX 131]

The affidavits don't need to be complicated and they are unnecessary at the original application stage. So many people have had them requested in RFE that I, personally, recommend having them, if possible. Here is the text of our affidavits:

Saturday, November 26, 2011

My full name is

My address is

I reside at

I was born on in Lima, Perú

I am a friend of both Carlos and Emily.

I know them because Emily and I met online on a language learning website in February this year. When Emily traveled here to Lima recently, we all spent time together on October 16th. We met-up at my church on Sunday 16th at 10am. After having a good time with my Christian family we went to the Larcomar mall in Miraflores, there we watched the Pacific Ocean and we three hanged around the mall. After a couple of hours we left the place to take us some pictures and spoke for a while in a big park in front of the beach.

Carlos and Emily were enjoying their time together that day which was making me feel that I should leave them alone, but they told me it was nice for them to have me there so I stopped feeling guilty not to go. What I could notice was that they used to say to each other how much they love and in my personal opinion I think that is pretty good in a relationship because although some couple are falling in love they don’t show their real feelings very much and it turns a relationship off. They seem to be patient each other and be very available to understand anything from the other. If they keep being and acting like that I’m sure they will be very happy forever.

Sincerely,

and

RE: Application for visa for Carlos

by Emily

My full name is-

My address is-

I reside at-

I was born on in Pasadena Texas.

I am a friend of both Carlos and Emily.

I know them because we spent time together in Lima on October 7th, 2011. I went to Carlos house in Lima to meet up with Emily and Carlos. Emily had just arrived in Peru and had brought me some items of mine from America. We ate breakfast and proceeded to Plaza De Armas near the University that Carlos is attending. Carlos helped to direct me to an eyeglass store so that I could repair my sunglasses. We then went to an electronics store where Carlos put minutes on his cell phone. Carlos then went to his classes and Emily and I walked around downtown Lima until Carlos was out of class. Emily had bought Carlos an apple pie in which she gave to him upon his return to Plaza De Armas. We then headed in different directions.

Carlos and Emily are a very nice couple who complement each other well. At the time spent at Carlos house, I noticed that Emily got along very well with Carlos father. After talking with them, I came to find that they had travelled to several places around South America, including the Colca Canyon in Peru and the country of Chile. Although Emily's native tongue is English, the two of them strictly spoke Spanish for the time that I was in their presence.

Sincerely,

These aren't profound in any way, but the letters details that indicate our time together and the accompanying photos were acceptable.

The term for sending in extra stuff is FRONTLOADING. Do a search on this and you will have so many ideas that you will not run out of options. Be smart about it, though. More than a few pages of any particular unrequired evidence will probably get your fat, heavy, and unappealing file put on the bottom of the stack.

I went to court with an ex-BF many years ago. His file was in two FAT folders that each had giant rubber bands around them. The time was scheduled for 8am. When the bailiff brought out all the files for the day, the judge pointed at those fat ones and said, "Put those on the bottom. I don't even want to bother with that until this afternoon." Seriously. Then, to make it even better, the bailiff dropped them and one of them exploded apart and flew all over the place. This BF's ex-wife had called homeland security immediately after 9-11 and reported that he was a terrorist. She was demanding 100,000$ in cash to stop making false claims. That was my first personal experience with immigration fraud. He couldn't help but have a monster file. It should only be heavy after years in the system and multiple problems.

[Moomin 292]

Did you originally submit the passport stamps AND bip-page of the passport? Alone, the stamps are worthless. Then they could've been in anyone's passport. Passport and bio-page is what matters. Since it's an RFE response, I'd just scan and copy the whole passport. THen hand date the pictures with day/month/year, location and who's on the picture. If you can't remember the exact date, then put month and year. Pictures with both of you. They're not asking for 100 pictures. They're asking for a couple. I'd put in 10-15 that were all taken before you submitted the petition.

Facebook is not that reliable. I can add new status updates now if I wanted and it'll appear as if I wrote it in 2008. While it might definitely be your profile and you're engaged, the timelines can be manufactored into the way you want it to look.

You want to make sure to respond with the right evidence but don't add things they aren't asking for.

[mjqjazzbar 2]

Thanks guys. Great advice.