Evidence Organizing

[Simo-Britt 0]

Salam

I am the petitioner

SO we are at the point of sending in the AOS packet and IV which I intend to send together (inshAllah). My husband and I have almost 2 years of evidence, it's daunting to think about compiling them. So here are my questions:

1. How much should I send to NVC and how much should go to my husband for the interview?

2. What type of evidence should I send to both, would NVC prefer more emails and consulate more photos/receipts?

3. Is it more important to show the timeframe of communication, or much more important to show the substance (information we've talked about) OR the different means of communication. If they literally want all of that how am I to assemble a packet it would be well over 100 pages and I think that's just way too much to send.

InshAllah the rest of this will be speedy

Thanks for the answer/advice.

[Crossed_fingers 128]

In my opinion, the amount and type of evidence you should submit depends on the specifics of your relationship and the strength of your case. The consulate is your audience, NOT the NVC - the NVC does not care about emails, chats, photos, receipts, or really anything other than the documents required in support of the DS-230 and AOS; they are just collecting docs to send to the consulate and the hope is that whatever you submit will actually be looked at by a CO before the interview. The Casablanca consulate has been known to refuse to look at new evidence brought to the interview and to have a decision made prior to the interview, so I would play it safe and make sure to submit anything you feel they "must" see ahead of time. Personally I vote for quality over quantity any day of the week. We didn't submit any communications, btw.

Good luck on these last phases of your journey!

[gikagimenes 0]

we send a lot of evidence of our relationship, photos, testimonies from relatives, testimony of the bishop of my church, stratum joint account, copies of credit card, federal police statement from Brazil my husband was permanently residing in Brazil for two years because of our marriage, he has a permanent visa here ... send copies of this, copies of several transfers of money that my husband sent me and other documents ... hope this is enough evidence to USCIS ...Good look!!!

[hamigirl710 112]

I sent all of our evidence with the I130 petition and did not send anything else with the NVC paperwork. We have an interview date for April 30th and we will see if this is enough I agree with crossed - fingers if you have something of quality that you want them to see send it but don't send a bunch of papers just to send them. Good luck!!

[kristen_maroc 126]

We sent what felt like a lot but really seemed to be a good amount for our K1 petition: probably 10-12 pictures of us in different places, passport stamps with dates, and a smattering of communications: a few emails, a few pages of Skype logs with phone numbers/calls, a few chat pages, a screenshot of our Facebook chat (that showed we had thousands of messages/chats to each other without getting into the details or specifics).

When we went to the consulate, we created our "Visa Album." We put in photographs of our relationship (pics from all over Morocco, traveling to two places/trips in Italy and one in Spain together), plane tickets, etc. They never even looked at it.

We didn't have any sworn statements from friends/family. We did have pictures of me at his family's house on l'Eid (sheep and all) and visiting his extended family in Italy... the pictures spoke for themselves, I suppose.

[BraveAmnay 56]

In my opinion, the amount and type of evidence you should submit depends on the specifics of your relationship and the strength of your case. The consulate is your audience, NOT the NVC - the NVC does not care about emails, chats, photos, receipts, or really anything other than the documents required in support of the DS-230 and AOS; they are just collecting docs to send to the consulate and the hope is that whatever you submit will actually be looked at by a CO before the interview. The Casablanca consulate has been known to refuse to look at new evidence brought to the interview and to have a decision made prior to the interview, so I would play it safe and make sure to submit anything you feel they "must" see ahead of time. Personally I vote for quality over quantity any day of the week. We didn't submit any communications, btw.

Good luck on these last phases of your journey!

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Good luck

[RFQ 110]

When I put our stuff together I tried to imagine a job interview and application. You give a manager a novel, she'll throw it to the side because she doesn't have time to read and find the specific info she's looking for. I tried to make mine as simple and inclusive as possible.... Like bullet points

I suppose we'll see how that worked for me

Also-- I know it costed a bit of money and I hope they'll give me the book back, but I did a professional printed scrapbook on http://www.mixbook.com I sent in a photocopy of all the pages in the book and a sticky note asking for the original back, lol. It cost me about 20-25$ but I thought it would be worth it to tell our story in a catchy and easy to follow presentation.

[Ismael&Blair 66]

When I put our stuff together I tried to imagine a job interview and application. You give a manager a novel, she'll throw it to the side because she doesn't have time to read and find the specific info she's looking for. I tried to make mine as simple and inclusive as possible.... Like bullet points

I suppose we'll see how that worked for me

Also-- I know it costed a bit of money and I hope they'll give me the book back, but I did a professional printed scrapbook on http://www.mixbook.com I sent in a photocopy of all the pages in the book and a sticky note asking for the original back, lol. It cost me about 20-25$ but I thought it would be worth it to tell our story in a catchy and easy to follow presentation.

Great advice about keeping it like a job interview, inclusive and specific.

I also did printed photo albums and sent in printed photocopy of all of the pages in two books. I designed and bought the actual books (One of our courtship & one of our wedding) so my hubby can bring them to the interview. Anyhow, I just saw that your hubby's interview is in a few hours. Good luck & keep us posted! I would like to read about it.