To translate or not to translate??

[LC2016 15]

Hey Guys! Hope everyone is doing well! I have a quick question and obviously a stupid one. All of the Facebook, Yahoo and Whatsapp conversations between my husband and I are in Spanish and as for Skype how would we have proof that we video chat is there a way to download? Question is since his interview would be in Bogota, do I still have to sit here and translate almost 1200 plus pages? And what about my phone bill I mean that's ALOT of calls and would mean that we would probably need like 3 binders for it. Anyone have and recommendations or suggestions???

Best of Luck!

[Dave&Roza 748]

Hey Guys! Hope everyone is doing well! I have a quick question and obviously a stupid one. All of the Facebook, Yahoo and Whatsapp conversations between my husband and I are in Spanish and as for Skype how would we have proof that we video chat is there a way to download? Question is since his interview would be in Bogota, do I still have to sit here and translate almost 1200 plus pages? And what about my phone bill I mean that's ALOT of calls and would mean that we would probably need like 3 binders for it. Anyone have and recommendations or suggestions???

Best of Luck!

Are you really going to send in over 1 ream of paper if you print on both sides of the paper?!?? Really??? I would go thru this and give a few examples of your conservations, but I personally would not send more than 100 pages printed on both sides--50 pieces of paper. We have a lot of e-mails over 3 years and I showed the most important ones. I also broke it up into time periods that made sense for us. You do not need to translate all this. But think about it if you were in the IO shoes and someone sent in over 1200 pages of conservations. Would you even look at it? Would you think the person is trying to cover something up? So the conservations for a time period at the beginning of the relationship, in the middle, and most recent. I would show al the phone records as that information can be condensed into a few pages. IMHO content is more important than sheer volume. I know you want to show that the relationship is legit, but can't you do that with less than 1200 pages?

Good luck,

Dave

[LC2016 15]

Are you really going to send in over 1 ream of paper if you print on both sides of the paper?!?? Really??? I would go thru this and give a few examples of your conservations, but I personally would not send more than 100 pages printed on both sides--50 pieces of paper. We have a lot of e-mails over 3 years and I showed the most important ones. I also broke it up into time periods that made sense for us. You do not need to translate all this. But think about it if you were in the IO shoes and someone sent in over 1200 pages of conservations. Would you even look at it? Would you think the person is trying to cover something up? So the conservations for a time period at the beginning of the relationship, in the middle, and most recent. I would show al the phone records as that information can be condensed into a few pages. IMHO content is more important than sheer volume. I know you want to show that the relationship is legit, but can't you do that with less than 1200 pages?

Good luck,

Dave

lol! I was actually thinking more along the line of 1 day or 2 out of each month front and back and basically as far as the phones statements every other month with his number highlighted. But then again we bought a magicjack thing which would make it seem like he has a US number even though he's overseas. How would I explain that other than saying that we bought the device so that my phone bill wouldn't be so high and we could talk more often??

[Dave&Roza 748]

Okay, just checking because we saw a women when we were at our AOS interview wheeling around a couple of boxes full of papers here in Denver. I think if you par it down as you are planning you will be fine. I would just describe the phone calls just as you did here in a nice statement included with that evidence. You purchased a magic jack and this is no your husband's phone number. They may even call it to verify--I would suggest you put that in the letter that they are welcome to call the number. I think you will be fine.

Good luck,

Dave

[Rebecca616 38]

I took screen shots of my laptop while my husband and I would video chat, they weren't the best quality but I still printed off a few.... I included just 2 different chats/month for the duration of our relationship and highlighted the dates of them and a few emails here and there. They really don't want you sending them binders full of chats/phone logs. Best Wishes.

[LC2016 15]

Okay, just checking because we saw a women when we were at our AOS interview wheeling around a couple of boxes full of papers here in Denver. I think if you par it down as you are planning you will be fine. I would just describe the phone calls just as you did here in a nice statement included with that evidence. You purchased a magic jack and this is no your husband's phone number. They may even call it to verify--I would suggest you put that in the letter that they are welcome to call the number. I think you will be fine.

Good luck,

Dave

lol...no the more we thought about it we were like nooop just every other day or something front and back, the same for the phone records.

Best Wishes!

[NickD 203]

Bogota rings a bell as does translation of key legal documents. Must be talking about proof or relationship. But for whatever strange reason, wife and I were never questioned about this by the USCIS. Like how long we were dating, how many times we spent time together, showing letters, emails, video conferences, etc.

But without bragging, was told we make a lovely couple.

With translations of key legal documents, didn't quite understand that either, since the USCIS does have a Spanish line. But we did need these.

Suppose if they did want something like this, would have burnt a DVD, with hundreds of photographs, flight itineraries, chats, etc. We still have fun reviewing these recalling the long days we had apart.

Ha, when we decided we were right for each other, another job was deleting all those relationships we had with other people.

[LC2016 15]

Bogota rings a bell as does translation of key legal documents. Must be talking about proof or relationship. But for whatever strange reason, wife and I were never questioned about this by the USCIS. Like how long we were dating, how many times we spent time together, showing letters, emails, video conferences, etc.

But without bragging, was told we make a lovely couple.

With translations of key legal documents, didn't quite understand that either, since the USCIS does have a Spanish line. But we did need these.

Suppose if they did want something like this, would have burnt a DVD, with hundreds of photographs, flight itineraries, chats, etc. We still have fun reviewing these recalling the long days we had apart.

Ha, when we decided we were right for each other, another job was deleting all those relationships we had with other people.

Thanks NickD, we had his birth certificate( which was hand written b/c back then that's how they did it) translated as well as our marriage license when I got back to the states. I have printed out some of our telephone records my flight itinerary things like that. How many packets did you guys get or have to have?

[NickD 203]

If you are referring to our adjustment of status interview that occurred a year after we sent in all those forms. Not very much evidence could we bring in. Was just translated divorce papers for my wife, all of our birth certificates, her previous marriage certificate, that was need to show proof she was the mother of her daughter that I also petitioned for since she still had her previous marriage last name. Full copies of their passports, our marriage certificate, was married here so no translation required, and the most difficult piece of paper we had to obtain, permission for her daughter to come here from her not give a darn biological father.

Could not provide any joint information, APA didn't allow this until they became LPR's, did bring letters to this effect, but didn't have to show them, our interviewer understood this, and oh, a police report for both my wife and stepdaughter.

Wife did bring along our wedding picture album, we did have a very nice woman interviewer and she wanted to see all those photos. Being married here, was just my family, a large one of that. Interviewer could see photos of my kids hugging their new stepmom. And photos of me, my kids, aunts and uncles hugging my new stepdaughter, stepsister, and stepniece. Mabye this made a difference, never a question about how we met or got to our marriage day.

Now for the removal of conditions and citizenship, that is where we had to show a ton of evidence, had to be joint everything.

Good luck. But call luck getting a good interviewer and not getting into an accident or traffic jam driving over, and good weather. Things one doesn't have any control over.

[LC2016 15]

If you are referring to our adjustment of status interview that occurred a year after we sent in all those forms. Not very much evidence could we bring in. Was just translated divorce papers for my wife, all of our birth certificates, her previous marriage certificate, that was need to show proof she was the mother of her daughter that I also petitioned for since she still had her previous marriage last name. Full copies of their passports, our marriage certificate, was married here so no translation required, and the most difficult piece of paper we had to obtain, permission for her daughter to come here from her not give a darn biological father.

Could not provide any joint information, APA didn't allow this until they became LPR's, did bring letters to this effect, but didn't have to show them, our interviewer understood this, and oh, a police report for both my wife and stepdaughter.

Wife did bring along our wedding picture album, we did have a very nice woman interviewer and she wanted to see all those photos. Being married here, was just my family, a large one of that. Interviewer could see photos of my kids hugging their new stepmom. And photos of me, my kids, aunts and uncles hugging my new stepdaughter, stepsister, and stepniece. Mabye this made a difference, never a question about how we met or got to our marriage day.

Now for the removal of conditions and citizenship, that is where we had to show a ton of evidence, had to be joint everything.

Good luck. But call luck getting a good interviewer and not getting into an accident or traffic jam driving over, and good weather. Things one doesn't have any control over.

Thanks! We are wanting to get our ducks in a row