June 2013 I-130 Filers (merged)

[Ivy. 113]

Anyone here sending their petition this month?

My husband is working on ours and hopefully it will be in the mail this week. I am excited already so I was wondering if I could gather more filers in the same position to act sort of as a mental health support group therapy. I reckon it will be needed.

[domwardbound 73]

Since I haven't seen a topic, and I need one to post in for myself, so here it is!

Sent May 31, received in Phoenix June 3, email/text with receipt number received June 6 - "case has been accepted and routed to the USCIS National Benefits Center for processing".

Here we go... good luck everyone!

[BOS_LHR 829]

Just filed today! Can't wait for NOA1 to get the ball rolling. Good luck to you too!

[Ivy. 113]

My husband is still photocopying everything I think. Slowly but surely

I'm pretty anxious for the thing to get sent finally but we are in no rush.

[B & G 200]

We are planning to send off ours this coming Tuesday. I'm the one that got the package ready and mailed through to my husband in the US. He is more than capable of doing it himself, but I had alot more free time (free time meaning working on the package for hours at work!)

It is about 50 pages long when I sent it to him and he is adding another 15 pages to it. I hope thats not considered too big! The last thing I want is a USCIS human seeing it and rolling their eyes at the amount of evidence they have to go through!

[Ivy. 113]

Wow 65 pages! What are you sending?

[B & G 200]

Trust me..little by little it amounts to that! Husband's passport alone in 20 pages! We use blackberry messenger to chat all day long..one history file of 2 days is 7 pages long! Plus pictures..boarding passes..hotel receipts.. That's how we got to 65 pages!

[Ivy. 113]

Oh I did not bother with all that yet. We plan to send proof of a joint bank account, 6 pages with pics leading up to (and finishing with the wedding) and three months of phone logs (one 2013, one 2012 and one 2011). I forgot to count in his passport photocopy, yeah. I see it amounts to a lot quickly.

We have tickets, boarding passes and hotel receipts too but I told my husband not to send those yet. Trying to keep it simple :/

[B & G 200]

Reading here on VJ..they categorize boarding passes as primary evidence..since we are newlyweds..12th of june it will be 2 months for us..we don't have any co-mingling of finances evidence yet..so I'm trying to make up for it with everything else! Lol!

[Ivy. 113]

Boarding passes are primary evidence? I did not know that. Maybe we should reconsider this. Thanks!

[B & G 200]

no need to thank! That's what these forums are for. People sharing ideas and thoughts to create a better I-130 package.

[stevie b 141]

Reading here on VJ..they categorize boarding passes as primary evidence..since we are newlyweds..12th of june it will be 2 months for us..we don't have any co-mingling of finances evidence yet..so I'm trying to make up for it with everything else! Lol!

very few people have co-mingling of finances being separated

65 pages for Greece is a little much, if it was a high fraud country, then that would be understandable.

you want quality representation over time.. snippits of emails, chats etc, pictures with captions (I provided 10 total), boarding passes - not really needed, copies of the passport stamps might serve you better there.. remember just because you went somewhere doesn't mean you were together.. just show the evolution of the relationship over time with supporting documents and you are set

my whole petition was less than 40 pages including the bio data and applications.. approved with no issues

[B & G 200]

Thanks for the advice. I do know that 65 pages is alil much for Greece, and I have included the passport stamps. Even if I take out the boarding passes, that's only going to lessen it by 5 pages. The bulk of it is really things that are necessary. My husband's passport scans and divorce decree, are a big bulk of it. And after dating for 3 yrs, to give a decent timeline of our relationship and try and keep it minimal was a challenge. 20 pages worth of evidence of pics, stamps,boarding passes, 2 hotel receipts, one example of chat record, one email, and 5 month interval screen shots of skype was the best I could cut down too.

[domwardbound 73]

I wouldn't stress too much about extra evidence - photos and proof of being together a few times, emails, calls, a few letters. Though scanning my birth certificate is definitely easier than scanning every page of the passport...

I received my paper I-797C yesterday, with a received and priority date of June 3, and a notice date of June 5. Not too bad of a turn-around.

Edited June 9, 2013 by domwardbound

[Ivy. 113]

This might be a silly question, but can USCIS see what Immigrations Officers see when I come to POE? Or do we send the passport stamps because that information does not pop up on the screen when they put my name in the record?