Should I annotate my evidence for I129F

[S<3B 0]

I am in the process of copying and printing all the evidence for my I129F packet. I started writing on some of the printouts things like "copy of front and back of boarding pass for trip on XX/XX/XX date etc." I just realised maybe they dont like you writing on the actual copy of the evidence or is it ok? Should I do any annotations I want on post it notes instead. Am I nit picking over nothing!?

Sorry, for being so neurotic, you know how it is!!!

[LeftCoastLady 441]

I'd vote for post-it notes for things where it's less obvious what it is, but include a run-down of everything included in the petition package listed in the cover letter.

[Cathi 5,757]

sticky notes

[Berty 74]

I'd have thought the cover letter would be enough, with a simple list detailing what everything is; they can read between the lines re: boarding passes and the like. But hey, if you want to include notes then yes, better to not write on the actual copies.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

I am in the process of copying and printing all the evidence for my I129F packet. I started writing on some of the printouts things like "copy of front and back of boarding pass for trip on XX/XX/XX date etc." I just realised maybe they dont like you writing on the actual copy of the evidence or is it ok? Should I do any annotations I want on post it notes instead. Am I nit picking over nothing!?

Sorry, for being so neurotic, you know how it is!!!

We've sailed through the entire process to citizenship with no RFE ever and only 2 interviews...one in London for the visa and one for citizenship. All of my submissions have been annotated with no complaints from USCIS so I think it's a brilliant idea. An example of what I did on the photocopies of evidence:

• Highlight with yellow highlighter names, dates, cities or countries
  
• Write in red fine point Sharpie what I was trying to show
  

.

Two credit card statements (one from each of us). Highlight my name and the one transaction dated Jan 4 that says Harrod's London. Red note at the bottom saying "Nich in Harrod's London Jan 4, 2007. Next page shows Nick at same location". Did same highlighting of Nick's name and Harrod's transaction on Jan 4 with note "Nick in Harrod's London Jan 4, 2007". That was to show we met in person.

I personally like to connect the dots for them. What are they supposed to do, read your whole credit card statement and wonder why you sent it? And I thought sticky notes might be pulled off and discarded and i think cover sheets are discarded. Nobody told me to do all the marking. It was just something I wanted to do to make it real easy for them to get through my application. It seemed to work fine and a very standard timeline for each process, so I don't think we were thrown in the "naughty pile" and delayed because of it.

Edited January 3, 2013 by Nich-Nick