Supporting Documents for I-130

[smelimick1 3]

Hi everyone! I am new to visajourney and I am hoping this website and the people who contribute to the forums can help me with my questions and concerns.

I am a US Citizen who recently married the love of my life in Mexico (September 2014). I dont see myself living here (Mexico) I will be returning back to the US soon and I want to hopefully in the near future take my husband to the US with me. I have done some research myself and I learned that I first have to fill out form I-130 with all of the requirements and send a package of some sort to the USCIS office. I am planning to use the IR-1/CR-1 Route.

I have started filling out the forms (I-130 and G-325A-one for each) and started gathering other documents that I will send in ex. supporting documents as evidence of our marriage. For supporting evidence of our relationship I want to send screenshots of our facebook and whatsapp conversations. My question is if our conversations also must be translated to English as they are in Spanish and various websites state that everything should be in English.

Thank you so much for your help I really appreciate it !

[RobbieG 94]

We translated a one page conversation from one day of each week we have known each other of Whatsapp and some from Facebook, but not many from FB.

You can do the translation yourself. We included a statement for each translated page that said:

I, *full name*, certify that I am fluent (conversant) in the English and Spanish languages and that the above document is an accurate translation of the document entitled *name of document* and *date*.

Signature and Date signed

For official documents I had them professionally translated but I don't think that is necessary.

Question for you: It sounds like you live in Mexico. Are you doing Direct Consular Filing in Mexico City?

[smelimick1 3]

Thank you RobbieG ! I will be sitting here in from of this computer all day long haha translating our conversations.

I am currently in Mexico but will be leaving back to the US soon due to my job. I wish I could do the DCF here because I heard it takes much much less time than the other routes

We translated a one page conversation from one day of each week we have known each other of Whatsapp and some from Facebook, but not many from FB.

You can do the translation yourself. We included a statement for each translated page that said:

I, *full name*, certify that I am fluent (conversant) in the English and Spanish languages and that the above document is an accurate translation of the document entitled *name of document* and *date*.

Signature and Date signed

For official documents I had them professionally translated but I don't think that is necessary.

Question for you: It sounds like you live in Mexico. Are you doing Direct Consular Filing in Mexico City?

[RobbieG 94]

My pleasure.

Check out the guides here too if you haven't had a chance. They are very helpful.

Good luck guys!