Filing K1 for someone in your country of birth

[Tosh Love 77]

I am applying for a K1 for my fiance who happens to live in my Country of birth. How do I prove that I went to visit him when my family lives in the same city and country? I stay with him whenever I go and everyone knows I come there mainly to see him but I am not sure if this will diminish my evidence/proof of relationship.

Edited December 19, 2012 by Tosh Love

[apple21 953]

Plane tickets, boarding passes, passport stamps.

Pictures of you and your fiancee together on different occasions, and with different people.

[Thatgirl2 21]

1.enterance stamps in your passport, 2. Boarding tickets 3.atm recepies 4. Taking pictures in famous landmarks 5.meuseum or movie theater stubs that mention the name of the country or city on them, should I go on ?

[EminTX 131]

If you have an upcoming visit planned, go ahead and read through the RFE threads to see what people here have specifically been asked to provide and get those items together. Boarding passes, ATM receipts, I visited a Dr when overseas and used the receipt for that as a piece of evidence, photos with other people, affidavits written in English, tickets for travel/tours together--especially good if issued to you specifically (a train trip to a nearby touristy site, for example, or an overhead plane tour of the city), If he lives close enough to the border for you to cross together--go for a visit on the other side so that you have passport stamps together on the same day at the same time, etc.

There are lots of examples here on this site so that your originally submitted packet can be as perfect as possible.

It is awesome to have someone that you cherish. Proving that to people who are always looking for scammers is another story and requires some effort.

I also suggest that you start writing to each other--especially you to him. Post cards, romantic cards, and letters that are ongoing can be examples of an ongoing relationship when he goes for his interview. One of the cards I had sent my now-husband was taken from his notebook of evidence examples. Besides, it is always very sweet to hold something that your beloved touched. For 1.05U$ in postage, it is a great bargain.

Edit:

Someone I know took pictures with his fiance at the movie theatre in front of some of the movie posters. This clearly indicates when the photo happened! I, personally, thought it was genius. (I know--photos are secondary evidence. But it's so easy to have good ones.)

Edited December 19, 2012 by EminTX

[Tosh Love 77]

If you have an upcoming visit planned, go ahead and read through the RFE threads to see what people here have specifically been asked to provide and get those items together. Boarding passes, ATM receipts, I visited a Dr when overseas and used the receipt for that as a piece of evidence, photos with other people, affidavits written in English, tickets for travel/tours together--especially good if issued to you specifically (a train trip to a nearby touristy site, for example, or an overhead plane tour of the city), If he lives close enough to the border for you to cross together--go for a visit on the other side so that you have passport stamps together on the same day at the same time, etc.

There are lots of examples here on this site so that your originally submitted packet can be as perfect as possible.

It is awesome to have someone that you cherish. Proving that to people who are always looking for scammers is another story and requires some effort.

I also suggest that you start writing to each other--especially you to him. Post cards, romantic cards, and letters that are ongoing can be examples of an ongoing relationship when he goes for his interview. One of the cards I had sent my now-husband was taken from his notebook of evidence examples. Besides, it is always very sweet to hold something that your beloved touched. For 1.05U$ in postage, it is a great bargain.

Edit:

Someone I know took pictures with his fiance at the movie theatre in front of some of the movie posters. This clearly indicates when the photo happened! I, personally, thought it was genius. (I know--photos are secondary evidence. But it's so easy to have good ones.)

[Tosh Love 77]

Thanks for all the suggestions, especially the postcard and personal letters. I have passport stamps, boarding pass, etc. for all my visits home but my question was, how can I prove that I was there to see him and not my family. He is in almost every picture with me when I visit home, except for the pictures that he takes of me and others.

[EminTX 131]

I see. Do you ever leave the house together? Photos are good, but other third-party examples are better.

I have never heard of anyone being questioned about the differences between visits to family versus to one's beloved.

Chat logs are super popular to offer. If you use this, be careful what you send and please, don't be a doofus and send in hundreds of pages. A few select ones are enough, unless more is requested. If you talk on the phone, try to get a calling plan for your cell or home so that there is a record of calls that you can print out from your phone company as opposed to untraceable calling cards.

If you can have all your documents in English, all the better. Paying for and searching out translations can be a PITA.

If you have a visit to him planned for AFTER you file, take an organized notebook with original documents to him to take to the interview. Keep an identical one with copies of everything for yourself. If you are OCD, have a 2nd set of copies that you have all together in a folder that you keep in a locker at work in case a hurricane blows your house away.

Making the notebook schmarmy probably won't hurt. I put a map in the back cover of ours with small photos of us surround it and lines on the map to where the pix were taken. If you two never leave his area, you can do the same thing with a city/regional map. As he is walking up to the interview window, even though this may not be noted officially as evidence, it is a visual clue that someone took the time to make this--someone who has a very personal relationship.

I also put a zipper pocket in the notebook with pens from here, Hubbba Bubba gum, and Werther's Originals that can't be bought in his country to give a bit of subliminal addition, too. In the spine of the notebook, I had printed out his name and I think I wrote little "I love you" 's around it.