Evidence from traditional wedding?

[CeCe 0]

I've searched through this forum and couldn't seem to find an answer to my question. Recently my husband and I went back to do our traditional wedding and now I'm collecting research for the ROC should we include the evidence from it? Logical thinking me would think it would be great evidence since we did the traditional ceremonies too but I start thinking maybe they would ask, why we are doing the traditional wedding. This process is crazy, I'm just trying to get input so I don't drive myself crazy.

Thanks VJ!

[amykathleen2005 441]

Why don't you just label the pictures 2nd wedding or something.

[hmh33 117]

Don't call it a wedding, call it a "traditional ceremony" or something.

[CeCe 0]

Yes tradition ceremony sounds better, I'm really skeptical about adding "wedding" to photos that don't come from our original wedding.

[Leenie 15]

We didn't have a big wedding with all the trimmings - dress, cake, reception, etc. etc. - but we did renew our vows with a big ceremony and reception on our second anniversary. We included pictures from our vow renewal in our ROC package with a few sentences explaining that we renewed our vows. No word back from USCIS on our package yet, though! That kind of thing is itself a big commitment, so I think it's relevant and important to include!

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

They are more interested in co mingling of assets and proff of cohabitation than pictures from a party

[juliava 80]

we had our wedding in my home country with all the blows and wistles way after I received my conditional green card. I included those wedding pictures in my I-751 package and there were no issues. I simply included the wedding date and I described the event as a traditional Romanian wedding in my hometown. That was it.

[CeCe 0]

Thanks everyone! I plan to include our trip itinerary to show we traveled together along with the pictures of from the ceremony.

Almost done with gathering all the evidence.

[BenAna 0]

My husband and I had our courthouse marriage on Feb 2010 because of my K-1 visa and AOS. But we are both Catholics and we wanted a church wedding too. So we saved up some money and on July 2011 we had our church wedding.

We sent our ROC on May 2012 and our package was ginormous. We added all the paperwork showing we have commingled assets, travel info for all the places we traveled together and then I picked about 10-15 pictures for each month/year we have been married. I know, it was A LOT of pictures but I just wanted to send everything we had. haha

I didn't write anything under the pictures, I just printed them in normal paper, separate by month/year and they were even black and white because colored printing was too expensive.

Our cover letter was divided by sections and I had papers inside separating each section, but we had one for the photos and we explained where the pictures were taken. Kind of like this:

Section 3

- Trip to Las Vegas (September 2010), Thanksgiving trip to Yorktown - VA (November 2010), Christmas trip to Tacoma - WA (December 2010) travel arrangement info and photos.

- Trip to Orlando - FL (Honeymoon-September 2011), Trip to Colorado Springs - CO (Thanksgiving and our nephew's baptism-November 2011), Trip to Tacoma - WA (Christmas-December 2011) travel arrangement info and photos.

- Sample of photos from our church wedding (July 23rd, 2011)

- Misc photos: Valentine's Day, Courthouse Wedding (February 26th, 2010), Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween.

And that's all. They never asked for RFE or an Interview, I guess it was pretty obvious. We were approved last December after 7 months of process.

Edited January 23, 2013 by BenAna