I hate Google Chat, Tango & Skype! Use Yahoo Messenger instead

[Jon9205 1]

I'm in the tedious stage of indexing my chat logs to submit for the K-1 form. The approach to collecting google chats is miserable and you cant copy and paste them into word w/ pictures so it looks like you typed the conversation yourself.

We spend the majority of our time talking on Tango because of the quality of the call (and my fiance has windows 8 and she can't figure out how to download skype w/ the update). Tango is a complete disaster and I recommend nobody make the same mistake I made. You can only screen shot a weeks worth of calls, after that it deletes the history and there is no way of retrieving later records. So if you must use Tango, screen shot regularly otherwise all you call records will be lost.

As for skype, trying to load a years worth of chats bogs down the computer and take at least a half an hour to prepare. I purchased Kudos chat which indexs the chats to Excel form where I then copy and paste into word. The end result has no Skype signature and looks no different than if I went into word and typed all of the messages myself

I'm going through a high fraud consulate so I'm really disappointed that I will be submitting word documents that look like I typed the conversations myself.

If you use yahoo messenger, enable it to save your chat history and it will index all your conversation by day and they are easy to access. You can also screen shot the list of days to make for an easier chronology of chats. If I had stuck with Yahoo messenger from the start. This process right now would not be so frustrating.

Just though I would post my frustrations and give some tips to others so they don't make the same mistakes I have made.

If anyone has any suggestions about Skype, Tango and Google Chat I'd really appreciate it! Thanks

[stevie b 141]

If anyone has any suggestions about Skype, Tango and Google Chat I'd really appreciate it! Thanks

sending a stack of 500 pages just pisses off people who need to review your file

take a snapshot of things over time.. a quality representation over the lifetime of the relationship like a page a month or so, and just a sample of the chat, not the whole thing

higher fraud country=front load more, but not the ten pound box

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from K1 Process & Procedures to General Immigration-Related Discussion; topic is applicable to more than just one visa type. Duplicate thread removed.

[Girl from Celebes 588]

My fiance and I use Skype for more than 5 years. Most of times, we're using video calls but still have plenty chats archive. I download Historian a long time ago - another VJ-er gave me suggestion-. It worked properly. I am not sure about that now, though.

Edited September 14, 2013 by Girl from Celebes