Newbie. Wowzers.

[NikLR 13,227]

also i will be meeting more of her family on this trip, so surely this would be better to include in the pack photos etc??

It's always good to include photos with friends and family.

(unless you're like my husband and hate photos together... he quite literally avoids them as much as humanly possible.)

[John and Camie 39]

also i will be meeting more of her family on this trip, so surely this would be better to include in the pack photos etc??

I would collect as much evidence as you can before your fiancee sends off the application packet.

• Copies of ticket stubs (flights, public transport, cinema, etc.)
• Photos (get some of the two of you with her friends, family) - in order to avoid sending USCIS a stack of pics, we made a Walgreens photo collage for each of our cases: K-1, AOS, ROC
• Receipts, ATM withdrawals (yours and hers, to show same-place, same-time)
• Facebook (my husband and I started a thread for all of our friends and family to post comments about our relationship, then we printed it out and sent it to USCIS during ROC)
• Emails spanning the relationship
• Signed Statement Letters from family and friends. Each of our mothers sent one with every case, bless.
• Gift receipts (for gifts ordered online that show from you to her, or vice versa, or to UK family, e.g., every year, I send flowers to my mother-in-law in Essex, so I used those receipts for K-1, AOF, ROC)
• Chat Transcripts (if you have these)

And anything else you can think of that says, without a doubt, that you're in a bonafide relationship. Highlight all the dates and your names to make the evidence easier for the adjudicator to review.

Good luck, and welcome to VJ. Just follow the K-1 guide, cross each K-1 "road" when you get to it (or you'll do your head in) and you'll do great. x